Nature

Nature stories help children notice the world around them: the rain and the wind, the flowers in the garden and the animals in the woods. In our own story The Little Cloud Who Lost Her Rain, a breeze, a sunflower and a frog work together to water a thirsty garden. After reading, you can step outside and look for a little cloud of your own.

Why the Spruce and the Pine Stay Green
A little bird with a hurt wing looks for a place to winter: the proud trees send her away, but the spruce, the pine and the juniper take her in.
Ages 2–54 min readWinter
Rexik, Trika and the Meteor Shower
Trika wants to catch a shooting star, Rexik notices that the stars burn out high in the sky, and Dad’s “star” turns out not to be a star at all.
Ages 6–87 min readDinosaurs
The Little Fir Tree
A little fir tree is in such a hurry to grow up and wait for something better that she misses her own happiness until it is gone.
Ages 6–810 min readWinter
The Starry Boat
Olesya does not want to sleep, so a moon-boat takes her sailing across the night sky, where the clouds, the stars and the breeze are already dozing off.
Ages 2–53 min readBedtime
Thumbelina
A tiny girl born in a tulip escapes a toad, a beetle and a blind mole, and the swallow she saved carries her to a warm land of flowers.
Ages 6–89 min readMagic
The Ants and the Grasshopper
All summer the ants carry grain, while the Grasshopper just plays his little fiddle. Then winter comes, and the hungry Grasshopper knocks at the anthill.
Ages 2–53 min readFables
Rexik and the Lost Egg
Rexik finds a lonely egg by the river and guards it with Trika for many days, until he learns who is living inside.
Ages 2–54 min readDinosaurs
The Nightingale
An emperor trades a living nightingale for a glittering mechanical bird, but when Death comes, only a real song can save him.
Ages 9–1214 min readNature
Rexik, Trika and the Longest Neck
Trika bets tall Alya that she can find Quetza’s lost pouch first. But the pouch was somewhere Alya could never look herself.
Ages 6–87 min readDinosaurs
Rexik, Trika and the Big Rain
Rexik’s and Trika’s dads compete to build the best rain shelter, but the best one turns out to be a bumpy rock that wasn’t there yesterday.
Ages 2–53 min readDinosaurs
The Selfish Giant
A Giant shuts the children out of his garden and winter moves in for good, until one little boy melts the Giant’s heart.
Ages 6–88 min readKindness
Why Sun and Moon Live in the Sky
Welcoming Sun and Moon invite their friend Water and all her creatures to visit, but Water just keeps on coming and coming.
Ages 6–86 min readNature
The Twelve Months
A stepmother sends Marushka out in winter for violets, strawberries and apples, and the twelve months by a magic fire help the kind girl.
Ages 6–87 min readWinter
The Snowman
A snowman asks an old dog about the world and dreams of a warm stove; with the thaw he melts, and only then is it clear why he longed for it.
Ages 6–87 min readWinter
The Little Cloud Who Lost Her Rain
A little cloud searches for her lost rain, and a breeze, a sunflower and a frog help her give a thirsty garden a drink.
Ages 2–53 min readBedtime