Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. ...

An only child, a perfectly ordinary little girl in rural Wisconsin, I wanted sisters more than anything. When I turned seven, my parents made a decision that delighted me beyond me...

  Pirates Treasure 'Ten steps from the porch（门廊） and twenty steps from the rose bushes,' growled Bluebeard in Jimmy‘s dream one night. 'There be treasure there! .' So th...

  A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her, She did not know she was going to make it and want to give up. She was tired of fight...

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic Ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far aw...

One day, an acquaintance met Socrates and said, 'Do you know what I just heard about your friend?'   'Hold on a minute,' Socrates replied. 'Before you talk to me about my frie...

When Mary Van Beke was growing up in the 1920s, she lived in Newark, N.J., and was the oldest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Europe. And as Mary tells her son, ...

Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...

  New York city: It‘s a cold day in December. A little boy about 10-year-old was standing in front of a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and s...

  In a small village, there lived a potter. He had a donkey. Everyday his donkey would carry soil from the field to his house. Since the field was quite far off, the potter wo...