August 2011 | Short School Stories

Clever Roofi

This is an old story. There lived a wood-cutter and his wife in a small village. They had seven children,

There was once a rich man. He had two sons. They were not good boys. They quarreled with each other

A washer man and his wife lived in a small village by the river. They had a donkey and a

When the king of the little people heard about the Man-mountain, he ordered his men to bring Gulliver to him

Once there lived an old farmer in a small village. One morning the old farmer was busy digging holes and

The Caliph Haroon ur Rashid was a wise ruler. He often dressed in the clothes of a working man and

The late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was born in 1907, and was the second son, of King Abdul Aziz

Aftab was the son of a poor father. His father was an honest man. He sent Aftab to school and

This tale is taken from The Tiger’s Whisker, a collection of Asian stories. It teaches us that learning is no

There was once a very poor farmer who lived with his wife in a hut in a village, near Lahore.