akorn - Mighty Old Tales Retold

What Happened To the Thistle

Adjoining the rich estate was a lovely and beautifully kept garden of rare trees and flowers. Guests at the estate enjoyed this fine garden and praised it. 
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Just outside the fence that separated the garden from a country lane, there grew a very large thistle.

What One Can Invent

There once was a young man who studied to become a poet. He wanted to be a poet by next Easter, so that he could marry and earn his living from poetry, which he knew was just a matter of making things up.

Sunshine Stories

"I'll tell you a story," said the Wind. "Kindly remember," said the Rain, "that it's my turn to talk. You've been howling around the corner at the top of your voice quite long enough."

Luck May Lie in a Pin

A Story Told For My Young American Friends
I'll tell you a story about luck. All of us know what it is to be lucky.

The Court Cards

Oh, so many dainty things can be cut out of pasteboard and pasted together! In this fashion there was cut and pasted a castle so large that it took up a whole tabletop, and it was painted so that it seemed to be built out of red brick. 

Pieter, Peter, and Peer

It is unbelievable all that children know nowadays; one can scarcely say what they don't know. They no longer believe the old story that the stork brought them to father and mother out of the well or the millpond when they were little, and yet it is really true.

The Days of the Week

The days of the week once wanted to be free to get together and have a party.

Which Was the Happiest

"Such lovely roses!" said the Sunshine. "And each bud will soon burst in bloom and be equally beautiful. These are my children. It is I who have kissed them to life." 

The Rags

Outside the paper mill, masses of rags lay piled in high stacks; they had been gathered from far and wide. Every rag had a tale to tell, and told it, too; but we can't listen to all of them.

Godfather's Picture Book - Part II

"How did it go with that wandering bird, King Christian? The birds have sung about it, and they fly far over distant lands and seas."