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Read Me a Story, Ink

Family stories perfect for classroom, bedtime, or anytime. Based on my 26 year hobby of reading in public elementary schools, the stories offered here are some of my favorite, kid-tested read-alouds. All stories appear with the permission of the author.

fiction stories for kids

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26:28

"A Good Day for Dragons" by Rick Hautala

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/11/11

It’s always a good day to fight pirates, especially if you’re a dragon and a boy, friends for life. Even if your mother keeps telling you that the is no such thing as “people” and that you must curb your dragon imagination.

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09:32

"Gyffes Llaw: A Welsh Tale" by Sharon Bailly

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2022/10/16

Gyffes Llaw is the finest shoemaker in Wales and the Princess of Wales goes barefoot for lack of good shoes. But it won’t be easy for Gyffes to win her heart. “I will marry, but the man I wed must come to me neither on horse nor on foot. He must welcome me neither inside nor out. He must stand above me yet remain beneath.”

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13:03

"Mountain Medicine" by Rosemary Wells

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/10/01

The first of three lovely, interconnected stories about nurse Mary Breckinridge who created the Frontier Nursing Service and spent her life riding the isolated hills of Appalachia bringing medicine to their poorest residents and building clinics.

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13:22

"An Autumn Tale" by Susan Eberly

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2022/09/12

Arcite, the coldest queen, feels neither joy nor sorrow. At the suggestion of her High Counselor, Arcite sets out on an adventure in hopes of finding both. In her chance encounter with the great Bully Legged Bogle, she finds, at last, both sorrow and great joy.

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12:58

"The Breadth of a Whisker" by Janet McNeill

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/08/12

Each night the alchemist and the mouse meet in the lab to try to make gold. But after so many years, it is as much for friendship as it is for the gold. One night – almost absentmindedly – they succeed with just enough to coat the mouse’s whisker but the Alchemist can’t even remember how he did it, or perhaps simply doesn’t want the nightly friendship to end.

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12:15

"How to Stuff a Rhino" by Gene Twaronite

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2022/07/22

Juan had wanted his own Rhino for the longest time. Then, one birthday, his parents gave him a Rhino. But after a short few hours of fun, Juan realized that the Rhino was homesick and Juan had to figure a way to get the Rhino back to the Serengeti. So, Juan stuffed his Rhino into a hatbox…

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19:48

"Watch: An Ogre's Tale" by J. G. Formato

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/06/28

It is the Ogres’ sacred trust to watch over human beings, but when Oni’s mother is killed by humans she vows to never help a human again. That is until she begrudgingly saves, then befriends a young woman who is drowning.

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11:38

"Books of Wisdom" by Michael Caduto

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2022/06/11

When an old woman shows up in a prosperous village with twelve beautifully bound books that contain all the knowledge and all the wisdom in the world, the town refuses to buy them for one sack of gold. By the time they realize the true cost of ignoring knowledge and wisdom it is nearly too late.

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08:53

"The Pirate Who Tried to Capture the Moon" by Dennis...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/05/17

A pirate has captured everything but the moon. After many attempts, he finally comes up with a plan to own the moon but in the end, it is the moon that captures the pirate’s heart.

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34:22

"Critch: a Witch's Tale" by Judith Gorog

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/04/27

Critch, an old witch who is living in a time past the time of witches is befriended by a strange young girl who helps her with her failed spells and keeps her house entirely too clean. When the girl brings her brothers, sisters and friends, Critch finds she has a place after all, as a storyteller.

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11:50

"The Contests at Cowlick" by Richard Kennedy

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2022/04/04

When Hogbone and his gang ride into town, the sheriff and his men are just a holler up the creek fishing. Unfortunately everyone is too scared to holler and saving the town is up to young Wally who tricks Hogbone into a hollering contest.

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10:52

"All the Cats in the World" by Sonia Levitin

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/03/20

Old Mikila came each day to feed the wild cats at the base of the light house, all the while ignoring the teasing of the lighthouse keeper. But when she fell sick, it was the very same keeper who fed her beloved cats thus starting a friendship that brought warmth to their aged lives.

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10:46

"The Leprechaun's Story" by Richard Kennedy

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2022/03/03

According to legend, if you see a leprechaun and don’t take your eyes off him, he must take you to his pot of gold, which is just what a traveling tradesman does. But in the end, he is outwitted by the leprechaun’s sad but clever story.

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18:10

"New Day Dawning" by Joyce Hansen

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2022/02/09

On the day of their emancipation, field hands on George Thomas’ plantation threaten to leave unless he builds a school to educate their children. Young Sarah, the mistress’s personal slave, is conflicted between taking her freedom and dedication to her mistress but decides to stay on awhile if she can go to the school and study to become a teacher.

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26:13

"Reading to Matthew" by Jackie Vivelo

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2022/01/20

John had been reading to his younger brother, Matthew, his entire life. Early on they discovered that something happened when the two of them read together, they found themselves IN the story. When Matthew was knocked out by a baseball and lay in a coma in the hospital, all John could think to do was to read to him, which had unexpected and amazing results.

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21:14

"The Creature in the Doorway" by Jackie Vivelo

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2021/12/29

What Jeff mistakenly thought was a black velvet rope in the doorway to his classroom turned out to be the tail of a huge black panther - a panther that no one else saw, and it had clearly chosen Jeff. But why?

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10:28

“The Gift Givers: An Appalachian Christmas Tale” by...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2021/12/06

Elderly best friends living at the Feldon’s Downs Nursing Home always look forward to Christmas when they can exchange their precious whittling knives…until one Christmas when neither knife can be found, but snow falls gently for the first time in 100 years.

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15:07

"Skivvy and Cuttle" by Joan Lennon

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2021/11/10

Skivvy and Cuttle the Dragon, team up with Robin’s merry men to save Robin Hood from the Sheriff of Nottingham’s dungeon.

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13:03

“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents: An Almost-a-Ghost...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2021/10/21

Shorty Long took pride in his reputation for never paying anybody the money he owed them, but Widow McCrae, who ran the Silver Dollar Café, was determined to ruin his reputation, and get back her four dollars and fifty cents.

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18:53

"The Purple Reader" by Douglas Evans

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2021/09/26

Kenneth is the worst reader in his class until a mysterious purple book appears on the bottom bookshelf of the reading corner. Each day there are fewer pictures and more words but each page chronicles events in Kenneth’s life that haven’t happened yet.

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