The Bear Prince Once upon a time there was a very poor woodcutter who had three beautiful daughters. Of the three girls, the youngest was the most beautiful. One day the woodcutter went into the forest and was chopping down an oak tree when a very large and horrible bear wrenched the axe from his hands.
"Who gave you permiss

Sunday Seven Long ago there were two hunchbacks. One was kind but the other was mean and spiteful. The two hunchbacks cold not work in the village because everybody made fun of them; therefore they went into the hills to cut wood. That is, the kind one cut all the wood since the mean and spiteful one was very lazy and was always te

How the Elephant got his trunk
Once upon a time, there was a sad elephant. He was dirty and stinky, because he could not reach to wash his back. All the other animals didn’t play with him because he was smelly.
Elephant sat under a tree, where nobody could see him. He started to cry. His head was hanging down, cryin

How the Swan got a long neck
There was this really large pond that ducks, and swans shared. It was in the shape of a swan , so the vain swans insisted that it should be called swan lake.
Many think that there isn't much difference between swans and ducks but there is.
Swans at first didn't have long necks but they

Eliza and Athena
"I made this myth up for my Language arts class. I hope you like it"
Once there was a young girl named Eliza. She was the daughter of a king and so she never had to work. She became very lazy. She had her servants do everything for her.
"I am so very thirsty, and my glass is on the tab

Platypus plays tricks
Before the dawn of time, all the animals looked the same.
Normally this was fine, but some of the cheekier animals likes to play tricks on Mother Earth and pretend to be other animals.
Since they looked exactly the same, even Mother Earth who had created them couldn't tell the difference!

Spider, Hare and the Moon
Moon was sad. She had spent many years looking at the people on Earth and she saw that they were afraid. They were afraid of dying. To make them feel better she decided to call on her friend Spider to take a message to them.
"Spider", She said, "The people of Earth are afraid of dy

The man who wanted to live forever
There was once a man who wanted to live forever.
He lived in fear of dying. One day he was walking along and saw a Chinese dragon. "Oh dragon." he said
"I live in fear of dying, I hear that you live forever. I wish I was you." Then the dragon spoke. "Kind

The Mouse and the Douglas-Fir Cone
Long, long ago there lived a mouse in the forest.
The mouse was fearful all day and all night, for the sly fox always tried to catch him and eat up him.
The mouse was very clever and was able to hide from the fox for a long, long time. But one day, he let his attention wander, and

What happened to Unicorns?
Once upon a time when myths and legends lived. There were these flying horned horses called unicorns.
Unicorns were very scared of people because people were always so violent and mean to all of the other animals that they caught. Unicorns always lived alone in the woods.
One day when a li

How the Rhinoceros got its horn
Long ago the Rhinoceros didn't have a horn. Just a long, gray head.
Now the Rhinoceros wanted to be different. He thought of every thing. A mane, but the lion and horse already had that. Speed, but the Cheetah had that. Everything he thought of someone already had it.
One day the Rhi

The Fastest Rabbit
One day a mother rabbit was having a baby rabbit.
The other rabbits were very fast and could jump very high. When the little rabbit was 4 months old, it started to talk.
The very first thing he said was "I want to jump very very high".
After a few years when the little rabbit cou

Why a Zebra has stripes
One day Mr. and Mrs. Zebra were going to a party with all there other Jungle friends. Mr. and Mrs. Zebra both wanted to look very special, but in a different kind of way.
Mr. Zebra painted the front part of himself green, like the lizard. You see they were all white back then. Mrs. Zebra painted th

Coyote and the People
One day when Coyote was fishing in a stream he saw Bear.
Bear was very angry, a bee had stung him on the nose!
He said to Coyote "I am very hungry, the bees did not give me any honey. I will eat you!"
Coyote said "That is where you are wrong Bear." And with those words

Coyote and the Giant
Coyote was out walking one day when he saw an old woman hurrying towards him.
"Turn back! If you keep going that way the giant will get you" she cried.
"Giants don't scare me" said Coyote, pounding his chest bravely . What he didn't tell the old