Category: Legend Stories

Once upon a time, a prince inherited his father’s kingdom. Although it had once been a prosperous nation of fertile lands, his father’s incompetence had led the kingdom into ruin. The young king could not afford to live the life expected of royalty. It was up to him to govern his fading realm. The young… Continue reading His Fathers Kingdom

Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a small house in a small village in the east of a big country, there lived a widow with lots of children. She was young and quite beautiful, and she lived in a small house with her mother and father and all of her children. The… Continue reading Chips

FOR AS LONG as people can remember, the shores of Japan have been swept from time to time by enormous tsunamis. These awful sudden risings of the sea are caused by earthquakes or by underwater volcanic action. The story of the boy Yuuki is the story of such a calamity. Yuuki lived with his family… Continue reading  Yuuki and the Tsunami 

ONCE in western Siberia there lived a great Tsar. While he had many subjects and large herds, he had but one daughter and her name was Altyn-Aryg. When the Tsar grew old, he said to his wife, a woman as old as he, “We have no sons and my strength is leaving me. A daughter… Continue reading The Tsars Daughter

A LONG TIME AGO, along the basin of the Amazon river in South America, there raged a terrible war between two groups. As soon as one group began to yearn for peace, an evil wizard named Sararuma would whisper something terrible to them about what the other side was planning to do. “They plan to attack… Continue reading The Great Fire

Five hundred years ago when the Spanish entered South America, Native American tribes often fought back against the invaders. One way tribes could put pressure on the Spanish was to surround their settlements. This is what happened in the early 1500’s when Maldonado, a Spanish girl, was 15 years old. Hostile Native Americans of the… Continue reading The Girl and the Puma

In all the land, none was better with a bow and arrow than Robin Hood.  He lived with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest.  That was the King’s woods where King John kept his royal deer. A few years before, King Richard had ruled the land.  This King let the poor come into… Continue reading Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow