MDF STORY FOR KIDS

CINDERELLA     Once, there was a gentleman whose wife had died after a prolonged illness. He had a beautiful and sweet-natured daughter named Cinderella. The gentleman married again, but second wife was a cruel and haughty woman. She had two daughters from her earlier marriage.      Cinderella's stepmother was rude to her and made her do all the household chores. She was treated harshly by her stepsisters also. They always bullied her and never thanked her for what she did for them.     One day, a messenger came with an invitation to a royal ball from the Prince Cinderella's stepmother told her daughters excitedly, 'It will be a grand ball girls! You must wear your finest dresses.' Cinderella's stepsisters were very excited and started preparing for the ball.     Cinderella too wished to attend the ball. 'Am I invited too?' asked Cinderella. 'You will never be invited to a royal ball. Just look at yourself,' shouted her stepmoth...

THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING   One day a wolf found a sheepskin. He covered him self with the sheepskin and got into a flock of sheep grazing in a field. He thought, "The shepherd will shut the sheep in the pen after sunset. At night I will run away with a fat sheep and eat it.   All went well till the shepherd shut the sheep in the pen and left The wolf waited patiently for the night to the shepherd entered the pen. His master had sent him to bring a fat sheep for super. As luck would have it, the servant picked up the wolf dressed in the sheepskin. That night the shepherd and his guests had the wolf for supper. ( Moral:  An evil design has an evil end... ) 

BIRBAL THE WISE    O ne day, a rich merchant came to Birbal. He said to Birbal,"I have seven servants in my house. One of them has stolen my bag of precious pearls. Please find out the thief." So Birbal went to the rich man's house.          He called all the seven servants in a room. He gave a stick to each one of them. Then he said," These are magic sticks. just now all these sticks are equal in length. Keep them with you and return tomorrow. If there is a thief in the house, his stick will grow an inch longer by tomorrow."           The servant who had stolen the bag of pearls was scared. He thought, "If I cut a piece of one inch from my stick, i won't be caught." So he cut stick and made it shorter by one inch. the next day Birbal collected the stick from the servants. He found that one servant's stick was short by an inch. Birbal pointed his finger at him and said, "here is the thief." The...

THE FARMER AND HIS SONS    A farmer had five sons. They were strong and hardworking. But they always quarreled with one another. Sometimes, they even fought. The farmer wanted his sons to stop quarreling and fighting. He wanted them to live in peace. plain words of advice or scolding did not have much effect on these young people.The farmer always thought what to do to keep his sons united.    One day he found an answer to the problem. So he called all his sons together. he showed them a bundle of sticks and said, "i want any of you to break these sticks without separating them from the bundle."Each of the five sons tried on by one. They used their full strength and skill. But none of them could break the sticks. Then the old man separated the sticks and gave each of them just a single stick to break. They broke the sticks easily.     The farmer said, "A single stick by itself is weak. It is strong as long as it is tied up in a bundle. Likewi...

AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP    One night, three thieves stole a lot of money from a rich man's house. They put the money in a bag and went to the forest. They felt very hungry. So, one of them went to a nearby village to buy food. The other two remainder in the forest to take care of the bag of money.The thief that went for food had an evil idea. He ate his food at a hotel. Then he bought food for his two mates in the forest. He mixed a strong poison with the food. He thought, "Those two will eat this poisoned food and die. then will get all the money for myself." Meanwhile, the two wicked men in the forest decided to kill their mate on return. They thought that they would divide the money between the two of them. All the three wicked men carried out their cruel plans. The thief who wanted all the money for himself came to the forest with the positioned food. The two men in the forest hit him and killed him. Then they ate the poisoned food and died.   ...

THE VILLAGER AND THE SPECTACLES    The was a villager. He was illiterate. He did not know how to read and write. He often saw people wearing spectacles for reading books or papers. He thought,"If I have spectacles, I can also read like these people. I must go to town and buy a pair of spectacles for myself. "so one day he went to a town. He entered a spectacles shop He asked the shopkeeper for a pair of spectacles for reading. The shopkeeper gave him various pairs of spectacles and a book. The villager tried all the spectacles one by one. But he could not read anything. He told the shopkeeper that all those spectacles were useless for him. The shopkeeper gave him a doubtful look. Then he looked at the book. It was upside down! The shopkeeper said, "Perhaps you don't know how to read."The villager said,"No, I don't I want to buy spectacles so that I can read like other. But I can't read with any of these spectacles."The shopkeeper control...