Stories for Kids: Age 8-10 (freechildrenstories.
com)
THE STORY OF YES AND NO
Before words were words, a boy named Yes lived in a small village in a small
kingdom. Yes was good at everything. He was the best, smartest and most liked
person in his village.
Yes had a brother, and his name was No. No was jealous of his brother, because he
was not much good at anything himself. Whenever the villagers asked No for help ,
he refused because he didn’t like people very much. Whenever someone asked
Yes for a favor, he would gladly help, and he secretly didn’t mind the fact that it
irritated No when he did.
One day Yes and No’s father, Okay went on a long journey and he left his two
sons in charge of all the animals. Yes took good care of the great guck, and the
icks, and the three-toed yock. [Keep in mind, my dear friend, that the guck, ick,
and three-toed yock were very old animals, so you might know them by different
names today.] No didn’t want to be bothered with the boring tasks involved with
taking care of the animals. So instead of helping his brother, No went down to the
lake and threw rocks into the water.
I LIKE TO GO EXPLORING!
I went up to the arctic where I met a polar bear.
You might think she’d be white, but she had purple yellow hair.
I hopped on to a glacier and I rode it out to sea.
Snow is great for sledding but it's much too cold for me.
I like to go exploring places that I've never been.
Take one step, and then another, that's how you begin.
I made it to the jungle where a toucan said “Hello!”
He made a hat from branches that he dropped to me below.
High above in vines were where the lemurs liked to swing.
They jumped around and laughed and that's when they began to sing:
We like to go exploring places that we've never been.
Take one swing, and then another, that's how we begin.
I headed to the desert where the camel keeps his humps.
He takes them off and puts them on, his fuzzy camel lumps.
We stopped at an oasis, such a magic, mystique spot,
But soon I had to leave for it was getting rather hot.
THE STELLAR ONE
When the universe was young the sky was filled with planets, and stars, and
stardust, and many many rocks.
One of these rocks was a bit more special than the rest. She was unlike any that
came before her.
She was a kind and happy rock, who always floated near a big blue planet.
Sometimes when the light hit her surface, she would glow a brilliant green. At
times like those, she almost didn't look like a rock at all.
As the sky moved from day to day, and week to week, the rock would see planets
far off in the distance.
She would wonder what it would be like to go to them. Week after week and
month after month she would wonder. Until one day she decided to go find out.
The rock had never gone anywhere before and wasn't sure how to go about it.
She started to rock back and forth.
Then she started to spin.
Soon enough, she was flying through the sky.
Stories for Kids: The Stellar One (freechildrenstories.com)
