Lily and the Red Ball
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Lily is a happy little girl who loves playing with her red ball. One day, while playing outside, she throws the ball too far and cannot find it. She feels sad and starts to...
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Lily is a happy little girl who loves playing with her red ball. One day, while playing outside, she throws the ball too far and cannot find it. She feels sad and starts to...
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Ben is a young boy who finds a small and scared cat outside his house. The cat is hungry and alone. Ben slowly helps the cat feel safe by giving it food and speaking gently....
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Emma loves books and visits the old library every weekend. One day, she finds a hidden door that leads to a secret room full of mysterious and ancient books. There, she meets...
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Anna is a young girl who loves school and writing stories in her notebook. One day, she brings her favorite backpack to school, but after playing outside, she cannot find it....
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Tom is a young boy who lives with his mother. One sunny day, he goes to the park and finds a lost dog. He takes care of the dog and helps it feel safe. Later, he meets the...
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School isn't always inside a brick building! At Sunny Meadows Woodland School, the classroom is the great outdoors. Follow a group of curious forest animals—from clever foxes...
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James, his sister Sally, and their friend Mark are playing hide-and-seek one evening. While hiding, Sally crawls under a fallen tree and accidentally falls into a cave, getting...
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On a luxury train heading west, a young woman named Miss Fairchild encounters an old acquaintance, Mr. Easton. To her surprise, he is handcuffed to a grim-looking man. As...
View detailsOscar Wilde
"I am a very remarkable Rocket, and come of remarkable parents." A royal wedding is about to be celebrated with a magnificent fireworks display. Among the squibs, Roman...
View detailsErnest Hemingway
After a long winter of skiing in the high altitudes, Nick Adams and his friend descend into the valley where spring has already begun. They happen upon a peasant’s funeral,...
View detailsSir Arthur Conan Doyle
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." When a lost Christmas goose and a battered felt hat are brought to 221B Baker Street,...
View detailsOscar Wilde
"Admirable as is the common sense of the world, it is not everything." Hughie Erskine is a young man with a wonderful profile, a kind heart, and no money. To marry the woman he...
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"Romance at short notice was her speciality." Framton Nuttel, a man suffering from a nervous condition, moves to the quiet countryside for a "rest cure." Upon visiting the...
View detailsF. Scott Fitzgerald
"I am seventy years old," the newborn baby said. "And I will be sixty-nine next year." In 1860, a baby is born in Baltimore with the appearance and physical ailments of a...
View detailsGuy de Maupassant
Mathilde Loisel is a beautiful woman who believes she was born for a life of luxury and elegance. When she and her husband are invited to a prestigious ball, she borrows a...
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"Do not be so distressed, my master," said the cat. "You have only to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me." When a poor miller’s son inherits nothing but a cat,...
View detailsWashington Irving
"In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson... there lies a small market-town which is known by the name of Tarry Town." Deep...
View detailsAnonymous (From One Thousand and One Nights)
"Open, Sesame!" With these two magical words, the life of a poor woodcutter named Ali Baba is changed forever. After accidentally discovering the secret hiding place of a band...
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In a small district west of Washington Square, the art colonies of Greenwich Village are struggling through a cold winter and an epidemic of pneumonia. Young Johnsy, an...
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Set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War, "Rip Van Winkle" tells the story of an amiable but lazy villager who wanders into the Catskill Mountains to...
View detailsCharles Dickens
"Halloa! Below there!" When a traveler encounters a lonely signal-man working in a deep, damp railway cutting, he finds a man haunted not just by isolation, but by a terrifying...
View detailsJack London
"The dog did not know anything about thermometers... but the brute had its instinct." In the deep freeze of the Yukon, where the temperature falls to seventy-five degrees below...
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High above the city, on a tall column, stands the statue of the Happy Prince. He is covered with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he has two bright sapphires, and a large red...
View detailsHans Christian Andersen
On a bitterly cold New Year's Eve, a poor young girl wanders the snowy streets, barefoot and shivering, trying to sell matches. Afraid to go home without any money, she huddles...
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