Children's folk tales should be read from an early age. They have a powerful educational effect and captivate every child for a long time. You can read these works not only before going to bed, but also during the day, after school, during breaks in class, in line. On the site you will see more than 500 fairy tales that you can read at your convenience.
Benefits for children
Psychologists recommend reading bedtime stories. Each story is instructive and contains a moral that points out certain character flaws or behavior of the characters. Using such examples, it is convenient to explain to a child which actions are correct and which are not.
While reading fairy tales, children:
- learn to analyze life situations, think logically, look for ways out;
- learn about eternal values, morality, good and evil;
- develop imagination, learn to think creatively;
- having a good time.
Each story is presented in a humorous manner. Funny situations that happen to the characters not only teach, but also entertain the child. Even short text can be interesting and colorful.
Variety of works
On the site you get free access to fairy tales without registration. This is very convenient because you can go to the resource and read the work online at any time. The work of such writers as the Brothers Grimm, Andersen, Perrault, Lindgren, Carroll, Bianchi, Tolstoy and others is collected here. famous authors. Their children's works are easy to understand and engaging.
Folk art will be no less interesting and useful for your little daughter or son. Tales of the peoples of the world introduce children to different cultures, allow you to plunge into the mentality of other countries. Even short story will captivate the baby, allow him to learn a lot of new things, and develop his imagination.
Instructive stories of L.N. Tolstoy, lyrics by A.S. Pushkin, stories on zoological topics by V.V. Bianki, fairy tales in verse by K.I. Chukovsky, S.Ya. Marshak is only part of the works loved by many generations of children. It’s not for nothing that teachers advise starting to read fairy tales written by the geniuses of classical Russian literature (age-appropriate, of course) as early as possible. They have a pronounced educational effect, make you think and analyze, transfer the behavior model of the characters to own life. Fairy tales for children in verse are easy to hear, memorable, and very useful for memory development.
Don't think that Russian children won't be interested in fairy tales foreign origin. Even kids attending kindergarten are probably already familiar with many famous and beloved characters. It is enough to name Thumbelina, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Mowgli. Fairy tales online by such authors of foreign world literature as Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Astrid Lingard, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm will not leave indifferent not only children, but also adults.
How often should you read fairy tales?
Teachers and psychologists answer the same: “The more often, the better.” You can use any opportunity when mom or dad is with the child and has a free minute. In the car, at the dacha, in line at the children's clinic, at the bus stop public transport– You can find time to read anywhere. Of course, there is not always a suitable book for children in your purse, but there is one very convenient and affordable way Always have a whole arsenal of fairy tale texts with you. It is enough just to have access to the Internet and the ability to open a page of our website through a tablet, phone or any other device.
You looked at the site category Russians folk tales . Here you will find full list Russian fairy tales from Russian folklore. Long-known and beloved characters from folk tales will greet you here with joy, and once again tell you about their interesting and entertaining adventures.
Russian folk tales are divided into the following groups:
Animal Tales;
Everyday tales.
Heroes of Russian folk tales are often represented by animals. So the wolf always represented a greedy and evil person, a fox a cunning and savvy person, a bear a strong and kind person, and a hare a weak and cowardly person. But the moral of these stories was that you should not put a yoke on even the most evil hero, because there can always be a cowardly hare who can outwit the fox and defeat the wolf.
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Russian folk tales also play an educational role. Good and evil are clearly differentiated and give a clear answer to a specific situation. For example, Kolobok, who ran away from home, considered himself independent and brave, but a cunning fox got in his way. A child, even the smallest one, will come to the conclusion that he, too, could be in the place of the kolobok.
The Russian folk tale is suitable even for the youngest children. And as the child grows up, there will always be a suitable instructive Russian fairy tale that can give a hint or even an answer to a question that the child cannot yet solve for himself.
Thanks to the beauty of Russian speech Russian folk tales read pure pleasure. They store and folk wisdom and light humor, which are skillfully intertwined in the plot of each tale. Reading fairy tales to children is very useful, as it well replenishes the child’s vocabulary and helps him in the future to formulate his thoughts correctly and clearly.
There is no doubt that Russian fairy tales will allow adults to plunge into the world of childhood and magical fantasies for many happy minutes. A fairy tale on the wings of a magical firebird will take you into an imaginary world and will more than once make you break away from everyday problems. All fairy tales are presented for review absolutely free of charge.
Read Russian folk tales
Any fairy tale is a story invented by adults in order to teach a child how to behave in a given situation. All edifying tales are given to the child life experience, allow us to understand worldly wisdom in a simple and understandable form.
Short, instructive and interesting fairy tales help shape a child into a harmonious personality. They also force children to think and reflect, develop fantasy, imagination, intuition and logic. Usually fairy tales teach children to be kind and brave, giving them the meaning of life - to be honest, to help the weak, to respect elders, to make their own choices and be responsible for them.
Instructive good fairy tales help kids understand where is good and where is evil, distinguish truth from lies, and also teach what is good and what is bad.
About the squirrel
One a little boy I bought a squirrel at the fair. A squirrel lived in a cage and no longer hoped that the boy would take it to the forest and let it go. But one day the boy was cleaning the cage in which the squirrel lived and forgot to close it with a loop after cleaning. The squirrel jumped out of the cage and first galloped to the window, jumped onto the windowsill, jumped from the window into the garden, from the garden onto the street and galloped into the forest located nearby.
The squirrel met her friends and relatives there. Everyone was very happy, hugged the squirrel, kissed it and asked where it had been, how it had lived and how it was doing. The squirrel says that she lived well, the owner-boy fed her deliciously, groomed and cherished her, looked after her, stroked and took care of his little pet every day.
Of course, other squirrels began to envy our squirrel, and one of her friends asked why the squirrel left such a good owner who cared so much about her. The squirrel thought for a second and replied that the owner took care of her, but she lacked the most important thing, but we didn’t hear what, because the wind rustled in the forest and last words the squirrels drowned in the noise of the leaves. What do you guys think, what did the squirrel lack?
This short tale has a very deep subtext, it shows that everyone needs freedom and the right to choose. This fairy tale is instructive, it is suitable for children 5-7 years old, you can read it to your kids and have short discussions with them.
Educational cartoon for children, Forest Tale animal cartoon
Russian tales
About a playful cat and an honest starling
Once upon a time there lived a kitten and a starling in the same house with the same owner. Once the owner went to the market, and the kitten played around. He started catching his tail, then he chased a ball of thread around the room, he jumped onto a chair and wanted to jump onto the windowsill, but he broke a vase.
The kitten was scared, let's collect the pieces of the vase into a pile, I wanted to put the vase back together, but you can't return what you did. The cat says to the starling:
- Oh, and I’ll get it from the mistress. Starling, be a friend, don’t tell the hostess that I broke the vase.
The starling looked at this and said:
“I won’t tell you, but the fragments themselves will say everything for me.”
This cautionary tale for children will teach children 5-7 years old to understand that they need to be responsible for their actions, and also to think before doing anything. The meaning inherent in this fairy tale is very important. Such short and kind fairy tales for children with a clear meaning will be useful and educational.
Russian fairy tales: The Three Woodmen
Folk tales
About the Helping Bunny
In the thicket of the forest, in a clearing, the Helping Bunny lived with other animals. The neighbors called him that because he always helped everyone. Either Hedgehog will help carry the brushwood to the mink, or the Bear will help collect raspberries. Bunny was kind and cheerful. But a misfortune happened in the clearing. The son of the Bear, Mishutka, got lost, went in the morning to the edge of the clearing to pick raspberries, and went into the bowl.
Mishutka did not notice how he got lost in the forest, feasted on a sweet raspberry and did not notice how he went far from home. He sits under a bush and cries. Mama Bear noticed that her baby was not there, and it was already getting dark, so she went to the neighbors. But there is no child anywhere. Then the neighbors gathered and went to look for Mishutka in the forest. They walked for a long time, calling, right up to midnight. But no one responds. The animals returned to the edge of the forest and decided to continue the search tomorrow morning. We went home, had dinner and went to bed.
Only the Helping Bunny decided to stay up all night and continue the search. He walked through the forest with a flashlight, calling Mishutka. He hears someone crying under a bush. I looked in, and there was a tear-stained, chilled Mishutka sitting there. I saw the Helping Bunny and was very happy.
Bunny and Mishutka returned home together. Mother Bear was happy and thanked the Helping Bunny. All the neighbors are proud of Bunny, after all, he was able to find Mishutka, a hero, he didn’t give up the case halfway.
This interesting fairy tale teaches children that they need to insist on their own, and not give up what they started halfway. Also, the meaning of the fairy tale is that you cannot follow your desires, you need to think so as not to fall into such a situation. difficult situation like Mishutka. Read such short stories for your children aged 5-7 years at night.
Fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats. Audio fairy tales for children. Russian folk tales
Bedtime Stories
About the calf and the cockerel
Once a calf was nibbling grass near the fence, and a cockerel came up to him. The cockerel began to look for grain in the grass, but suddenly he saw a leaf of cabbage. The cockerel was surprised and pecked at a cabbage leaf and said indignantly:
The cockerel did not like the taste of the cabbage leaf and decided to offer it to the calf. The cockerel tells him:
But the calf did not understand what was the matter and what the cockerel wanted and said:
The cockerel says:
- Ko! - and points with his beak at the leaf.
- Mu-u??? – the little calf won’t understand everything.
So the cockerel and the calf stand and say:
- Ko! Mooo! Ko! Mooo!
But the goat heard them, sighed, came up and said:
Me-me-me!
Yes, and I ate a leaf of cabbage.
This fairy tale will be interesting for children 5-7 years old; it can be read to kids at night.
Little tales
How a fox got rid of nettles in the garden.
One day a fox went out into the garden and saw that a lot of nettles had grown there. I wanted to pull it out, but decided that it wasn’t even worth trying. I was about to go into the house, but here comes the wolf:
- Hello, godfather, what are you doing?
And the sly fox answers him:
- Oh, you see, godfather, how many beautiful things I have lost. Tomorrow I will clean and store it.
- What for? - asks the wolf.
“Well,” says the fox, “the one who smells nettles is not taken by a dog’s fang.” Look, godfather, don’t come close to my nettles.
The fox turned and went into the house to sleep. She wakes up in the morning and looks out the window, and her garden is empty, not a single nettle remains. The fox smiled and went to prepare breakfast.
Tale of the Hare's Hut. Russian folk tales for children. Bedtime story
Illustrations for fairy tales
Many fairy tales that you will read to kids are accompanied by colorful illustrations. When choosing illustrations for fairy tales to show them to children, try to ensure that the animals in the drawings look like animals, they have correct proportions bodies and well-drawn clothing details.
This is very important for children 4-7 years old, since at this age aesthetic taste and the child makes his first attempts to draw animals and other fairy tale characters. At 5-7 years of age, a child should understand what proportions animals have and be able to diagram them on paper independently.
In this section we have collected short folk and original fairy tales from all over the world. These little instructive and good stories will help children calm down after a stormy day and get ready for sleep.
In bedtime stories you won't find cruelty or scary characters. Only light plots and pleasant characters.
At the bottom of every fairy tale there is clue, what age it is intended for, as well as other tags. Be sure to pay attention to them when choosing a piece! You don't have to waste time reading a fairy tale to find out whether it is suitable for your child or not. We have already read and sorted everything.
Enjoy reading and good dreams :)
short bedtime stories to read
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- “The Fox and the Bear” (Mordovian);
- “The War of Mushrooms and Berries” - V. Dal;
- "Wild Swans" - H.K. Andersen;
- “Chest-airplane” - H.K. Andersen;
- “The Gluttonous Shoe” - A.N. Tolstoy;
- “Cat on a Bicycle” - S. Cherny;
- “Near the Lukomorye there is a green oak tree...” - A.S. Pushkin;
- “The Little Humpbacked Horse” - P. Ershov;
- “The Sleeping Princess” - V. Zhukovsky;
- “Mr. Au” - H. Mäkelä;
- "The Ugly Duckling" - H.K. Andersen;
- “Everyone in his own way” - G. Skrebitsky;
- “Frog – Traveler” - V. Garshin;
- “Deniska’s stories” - V. Dragunsky;
- “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” - A.S. Pushkin;
- “Moroz Ivanovich” - V. Odoevsky;
- “Mistress Blizzard” - Br. Grimm;
- “The Tale of Lost Time” - E. Schwartz;
- “Golden Key” - A.N. Tolstoy;
- “Guarantee men” - E. Uspensky;
- "Black chicken, or Underground inhabitants" - A. Pogorelsky;
- "The Tale of dead princess and about the seven heroes" - A.S. Pushkin;
- “Baby Elephant” - R. Kipling;
- “The Scarlet Flower” - K. Aksakov;
- “Flower - seven flowers” - V. Kataev;
- “The cat who could sing” - L. Petrushevsky.
Senior group(5-6 years)
- “Winged, furry and oily” (model by Karanoukhova);
- “The Frog Princess” (Bulatov’s sample);
- “Ear of Bread” - A. Remizov;
- “Gray Neck” by D. Mamin-Sibiryak;
- "Finist - clear falcon" - r.n. fairy tale;
- “The Case of Yevseyka” - M. Gorky;
- “Twelve Months” (translated by S. Marshak);
- “Silver Hoof” - P. Bazhov;
- “Doctor Aibolit” - K. Chukovsky;
- “Bobik visiting Barbos” - N. Nosov;
- “Boy - Thumb” - C. Perrault;
- “The Trusting Hedgehog” - S. Kozlov;
- “Khavroshechka” (model by A.N. Tolstoy);
- “Princess - a piece of ice” - L. Charskaya;
- “Thumbelina” - H. Andersen;
- “Flower - seven-colored flower” - V. Kataev;
- “The Secret of the Third Planet” - K. Bulychev;
- "Wizard emerald city"(chapters) - A. Volkov;
- “A dog’s sorrows” - B. Zakhader;
- “The Tale of Three Pirates” - A. Mityaev.
Middle group (4-5 years old)
- “About the girl Masha, about the dog, the cockerel and the cat Nitochka” - A. Vvedensky;
- “Carrying Cow” - K. Ushinsky;
- “Zhurka” - M. Prishvin;
- “The Three Little Pigs” (translation by S. Marshak);
- “Fox - sister and wolf” (arranged by M. Bulatov);
- “Winter quarters” (arranged by I. Sokolov-Mikitov);
- “The Fox and the Goat” (arranged by O. Kapitsa;
- “About Ivanushka the Fool” - M. Gorky;
- “Telephone” - K. Chukovsky;
- “Winter's Tale” - S. Kozlova;
- “Fedorino’s grief” - K. Chukovsky;
- "Musicians of Bremen" - Brothers Grimm;
- “The Dog That Couldn’t Bark” (translation from Danish by A. Tanzen);
- “Kolobok - a prickly side” - V. Bianchi;
- “Who said “Meow!”?” - V. Suteev;
- "The Tale of an Ill-mannered Mouse."
II junior group(3-4 years)
- “The Wolf and the Little Goats” (arranged by A.N. Tolstoy);
- “Goby - black barrel, white hoof” (model by M. Bulatov);
- “Fear has big eyes” (arranged by M. Serova);
- “Visiting the Sun” (Slovak fairy tale);
- “Two Greedy Little Bears” (Hungarian fairy tale);
- “Chicken” - K. Chukovsky;
- “Fox, hare, rooster” - r.n. fairy tale;
- “Rukovichka” (Ukrainian, model N. Blagina);
- “The Cockerel and the Bean Seed” - (arranged by O. Kapitsa);
- “Three Brothers” - (Khakassian, translated by V. Gurov);
- “About the chicken, the sun and the little bear” - K. Chukovsky;
- “a fairy tale about a brave Hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail" - S. Kozlov;
- “Teremok” (model by E. Charushin);
- “Fox-bast-footer” (model by V. Dahl);
- “The Sly Fox” (Koryak, trans. G. Menovshchikov);
- “Cat, rooster and fox” (arranged by Bogolyubskaya);
- “Geese - Swans” (arranged by M. Bulatov);
- “Gloves” - S. Marshak;
- “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” - A. Pushkin.
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