Stories to tell…
The Greek children’s point of view
“The Sly Fox”
A man is sewing a racket. The man carriesa barrel with grape juice. A fox tries to
steel the grapes but the man catches her.The fox then goes to the king and apologizes.The fox finds a coin and gives it to the king.
Then the fox finds the king’s daughter.The princess marries that man who was
sewing the rackets and, with their carriage,they go to the castle.
Dragons lived in the castle and the foxthrows them in the well.
The interpretation by the children of Greece
Traditional Story of Cyprus
“The 3 little pigs and the bad wolf”
Once upon a time there were three littlepigs and the bad wolf wanted to eat them.
Each little pig built his house to hide from the wolf.
The first house was with straw. The otherwith wood. The other with bricks.
The bad wolf came and wanted to eat them.He blows the first and throws it.
He blows the second and throws it. The two little pigs run to the 3rd house.The wolf goes there…blows…blows…
until gasping for air falls down.
The interpretation by the children of Greece
Story from England
“The Thirsty Bull”One day with a rainbow a unicorn
wanted to climb the rainbow, but thehumans didn’t let him.
There was a shepherd with a bag of seeds tofeed the birds. The man rolls and falls and
he had a banana.The shepherd goes to feed the bull, who was
so thirsty that goes and drinks the waterfrom the river and is fat from drinking so
much water. The bull becomes a giant and gets angry and
ruins with his feet the whole town.
Traditional Story from Iceland
The interpretation by the children of Greece
“The man of the cloud”
Superman runs all around the clouds.He eats in the clouds, washes up in the clouds.
The clouds have water taps. They fill withwater and it rains.
The clouds come down to get water and they become mist.
Maybe is God or an angel or Superman orthe man of the cloud.
Sometimes, he forgets to close the taps andit rains a lot and when he wakes up he
closes them and the rain stops. When he sleeps and the taps are closed
the sun comes out.
Story of Italy
The interpretation by the children of Greece
“The she-hare who wanted to get married”
There was a she-hare who with open armswas wondering “who will I marry”.
She meets a cat, but he leaves.Then she meets a dog but she doesn’t marry
him. She stays alone. Then comes the bull and she doesn’t
want to marry him. He also leaves.Then comes the mouse and finally
they marry. They go on a date, they kiss,they cook and someone throws the mouse
in the caldron. The wife comes and shefinds him in the caldron. The cat issmiling because he threw him in.
Story from Portugal
The interpretation by the children of Greece
“The sick snail”
One day the snail wakes up and his tummy hurts. He goes to the doctor
and the doctor says “this is the plantfor you to get well”. The snail finds the
plant but he can’t cut it. He asks the helpof a ladybug, then he asks
the help of a cow, then he asks the helpof a dog and then the help of a wolf.Altogether they cut the plant but the
snail now is well and he thanks everyone.
Traditional story from Catalonia, Spain
The interpretation by the children of Greece
“The old lady, the cat and the cow”
One old lady pets and wakes up her animals.The old lady milks the cow, takes the milk to the house.
The cat goes secretly and drinks the milk. The old lady comes
and scolds her. The cat climbs the tree so
that the lady doesn’t catch her.
The interpretation by the children of Greece
“Story from Sweden”