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Los cuentos en inglés son una de las mejores formas de enseñar idiomas a los niños de forma amena y entretenida. Podemos leer con ellos los cuentos y ayudarles a mejorar su vocabulario y pronunciación.

Uno de los cuentos infantiles más tradicionales, que continúa triunfando entre niños y mayores, es el de Rapunzel. Lee con tus hijos en inglés esta bonita historia de princesas.

Cuento de Rapunzel en inglés para niños

A long time ago, a husband and wife lived happily in a cottage at the edge of a wood. But one day the wife fell ill. She could eat nothing and grew thinner and thinner. The only thing that could cure her, was a strange herb called rapunzel, that grew in the beautiful garden next to their cottage. This garden belonged to a wicked witch, who used it to grow herbs for her spells.

The husband went to the garden to steal the herb, but the witch caught him. The witch agreed to give him the herb, but she made him promise to give her their first-born child in return. The husband agreed, thinking that the witch would soon forget the promise. He took the rapunzel back to his wife, who felt better as soon as she had eaten it.

A year later, a baby girl was born and the witch did come and take her away. The witch called her Rapunzel after the plant, and she locked up the girl in a high tower in case she tried to run away. The tower had no door or staircase, but Rapunzel was quite happy up there as she could sit at the window watching the life of the forest and talking to the birds.

Each day, the witch came to see her, bringing fresh food. She would stand at the bottom of the tower and call out,

-"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair."

Rapunzel, whose long golden hair was plaited, would twist it round one of the bars and drop it out of the window, and the witch would climb up it.

One day, the king's son was riding through the forest when he heard Rapunzel singing. Mystified, he rode to the tower, but could see no door, so could not understand how anyone could be there. He decided to stay and watch the tower and listen to the singing. After a while the witch came along and the prince watched her carefully. his amazement, as she called out,

-"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair," a long golden plait of hair fell almost to the ground. The prince saw the witch climb up the hair and disappear through the window, and he made up his mind he would wait until she had gone and see if he could do the same. So after the witch had gone, he stood where the witch had been and called,

-"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair."

When the golden plait came tumbling down, he climbed up as the witch had done and found to his astonishment the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

They talked for a long time and then the prince left, promising to come again. Rapunzel looked forward to his visits, for she had been lonely. He told her all about the world outside her tower, and they fell deeply in love.

But one day the witch dicovered them, she cut off Rapunzel's hair and left her in the forest. When the prince came as usual, she threw down the plait of golden hair and tricked the prince, who jumped out of the high window. His face, was badly scratched and his eyes hurt so that he could not see, and he stumbled off blindly into the forest.

After several days of wandering and suffering, he heard a voice singing. Following the sound. he drew closer and realized he had found Rapunzel. He ran towards her, calling her name, and she came and kissed him. As she did so, his eyes were healed and he could see again. The prince took Rapunzel to his father´s palace. where he told his story. Rapunzel was reunited with her parentsand she married the prince.

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Rapunzel. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés para niños

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Los cuentos en inglés son una de las mejores formas de enseñar idiomas a los niños de forma amena y entretenida. Podemos leer con ellos los cuentos y ayudarles a mejorar su vocabulario y pronunciación. Uno de los cuentos infantiles más tradicionales, que continúa triunfando entre niños y mayores, es el de Rapunzel.

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Los cuentos en inglés son una forma estupenda de animar a nuestros hijos a aprender idiomas. Gracias a los cuentos, además, podemos enseñarles importantes valores, como en 'Peter and the wolf'.

El cuento de ' Pedro y el lobo' contiene una enseñanza clave para los niños: las consecuencias que puede tener mentir a los demás.

Cuento 'Peter and the Wolf' en inglés para niños

Once upon a time, there was a little shepherd who took care of his sheep in the field of a small village. Every morning, very early, he always did the same. He used to go to the meadow with his flock and that was how he spent his time.

Since many times he used to get bored, one day, while he was resting under a tree, he had an idea. He decided that he would spend a good time amusing himself at the people from the village's expense. He started to cry:

- Help, the wolf! The wolf is coming!

The village's people took anything they had at hand and went to help the poor shepherd but when they arrived there, they discovered that everything had been a practical joke from Peter, who was cracking up laughing. The villagers got angry and decided to go back to their homes. When they had gone, the shepherd had found the joke so funny that he repeated it. And when he saw people far enough he started crying

- Help, the wolf! The wolf is coming!

The people from the village, hearing it again, started to run quickly thinking that this time the fierce wolf had appeared and that the shepherd really needed their help. But when they arrived where the shepherd was, they found him in the ground laughing at seeing how the villagers had come back to help him. This time the villagers got angrier and they left terribly angry with Peter's bad attitude and upset with the situation.

The next morning, while the shepherd was grazing with his sheep in the same place, he did not notice that a wolf was approaching. When he turned and saw it, the fear invaded his body. Seeing that the animal was getting nearer and nearer, he started crying desperately.

- Help, the wolf! The wolf is coming! He is going to eat all my sheep! Help!

But his cries were in vain. It was too late to convince the villagers that what he was saying was true. The villagers, having learnt the lies of the shepherd, turned a deaf ear this time. And what happened? The shepherd saw how the wolf leaped on his sheep while he tried to ask for help one more time.

- Help, the wolf! The wolf!

But the villagers kept ignoring him, while the shepherd saw how the wolf ate some sheep and took others for his dinner, without being able to do anything. And so, Peter recognized that he had been very unfair with the people of the village and, even though it was late, he regretted it and he never lied to people any more.

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Peter and the wolf. Cuentos para niños en inglés

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Los cuentos en inglés son una forma estupenda de animar a nuestros hijos a aprender idiomas. Gracias a los cuentos, además, podemos enseñarles importantes valores, como en 'Peter and the wolf'. El cuento de ' Pedro y el lobo' contiene una enseñanza clave para los niños: las consecuencias que puede tener mentir a los demás.

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una divertida historia de Charles Perrault narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten. Los cuentos tradicionales son ideales para enseñar inglés a los niños de forma sencilla e instructiva.

Puss in Boots. Cuentos en inglés

There was once a miller who, when he died, had nothing to leave to his three sons but a mill, a donkey, and a cat.

The mill he left to his eldest son, the donkey to the second, and to the youngest he left the cat.

The youngest son was very unhappy.

-"Alas!" he said, "This cat is of no use to me and I am too, poor to feed her."

-"Do not grieve, dear master," said the cat. "You have only to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me, so that I may scamper through the dirt and brambles, and you shall find that you are not so badly off as you think."

Now this surprised the miller´s son very much, and he thought to himself, a cat that can speak is perhaps wonderful enough to do as she promises. So he brought her the bag and had the boots made for her.

Puss put on the boots with a proud air, slung the bag over her shoulder, and went to the garden. There she gathered some lettuces and put them into the bag.Next she went across the field until she came to a rabbit hole. Then she lay down as if dead, leaving the top of her bag open. A plump rabbit soon peeped out of the hole and, smelling the lettuce, came nearer. It was too tempting. The rabbit´s head followed his nose into the bag.

The cat quickly pulled the strings and the rabbit was dead. Proud of her prey, Puss marched with it to the palace and asked to see the king. She was brought before the throne and there, with a low bow, Puss said,

-"Sire, pray accept this rabbit as a gift from my lord the Marquis of Carrabas, who commanded me to present it to Your Majesty with the assurance of his respect."

-"Tell your master," said the king, "that I accept his gift and am much obliged."

A few days later, Puss again went to the field. Again she lay down as if dead with her sack open beside her. This time she captured two fine partridges. Again the cat went to the king and presented the partridges as she had done the rabbit. They, too, were accepted, and the king was so pleased that he ordered the cat to be taken to the kitchen and fed.

Cuentos infantiles tradicionales para los niños

In this manner, at least once a week, the cat continued to take presents of game to the king from the Marquis of Carrabas.

One day, Puss heard that the king and his beautiful daughter were going to drive along the riverside. The daughter was said to be the most beautiful princess in the world.

-"My master," said the cat to the miller´s son, "if you will do as I tell you, your fortune is made."

-"What would you have me do?" asked the miller´s son.

-"Only this, dear master. Bathe in the river at a spot I shall show you and believe that you are not yourself but the Marquis of Carrabas."

The miller´s son was in a gloomy mood, and did not mind much what he did, so he answered,

-"Very well, Puss."

He went to the river and while he was bathing, the king and all his court passed by and were startled by the cry,

-"Help, help! My Lord the Marquis of Carrabas is drowning!"

When the king put his head out of the carriage, he saw the cat who had brought him so many presents. He ordered his attendants to go to the assistance of the Marquis of Carrabas.

While they were dragging the marquis out of the water, the cat ran to the king, made a low bow, and said,

-"Your Majesty, what shall my poor master do, for a thief has stolen his clothes?"

Now the truth was that the cunning cat had hidden the clothes under a large stone.

-"That is most unfortunate," said the king, and he gave orders to a servant to fetch a suit from the castle.

When the miller´s son was dressed in the fine clothes he looked like a gentleman, and very handsome. The princess was taken with his appearance, and the Marquis of Carrabas had no sooner cast upon her two or three respectful glances than she fell in love with him. The king insisted that he get into the carriage and take a ride with them. The cat ran on ahead of the carriage and, reaching a meadow where mowers were cutting the grass, he said to them,

-"Unless you tell the king when he asks you that these meadows belong to the Marquis of Carrabas, you shall be chopped as fine as mincemeat."

When the king drove by and asked the mowers who owned the meadows they answered, trembling,

-"They belong to the Marquis of Carrabas, Your Majesty."

The king then turned to the miller´s son and said, "

-You indeed own fine meadows, my lord."

Meantime, Puss had run on farther and reached a cornfield in which there were reapers busy at work.

-"Now, if the king drives by," said the cat to the reapers, "and inquires to whom these fields belong, you must say that they are the property of the Marquis of Carrabas. If you do not, you shall be chopped as fine as mincemeat."

So when the king drove by and asked whose fields these were, the frightened reapers answered,

-"They belong to the Marquis of Carrabas, Your Majesty. " "What a rich man he must be and how handsome he looks!" said the king to himself as he looked at the miller´s son.-"I do believe he would be a good husband for my daughter."

Now the fields really belonged to an ogre who lived in a castle a little farther on.

Cuento para enseñar inglés a tus hijos

When the cat reached the castle she knocked at the door, which was opened by the ogre himself.

-"Sir," said Puss, "I am on a journey, and since I have often heard how wonderful you are, I have taken the liberty to call to see you."

-"Come in," said the ogre, who was always pleased to be thought wonderful.

-"I have heard," continued Puss, "that you can change into any animal you like."

-"I can," said the ogre and he instantly changed into a lion.

The cat got such a fright that she ran up the wall nearly to the ceiling. But the ogre at once became an ogre again, and the cat jumped down.

-"Sir, you really frightened me. But you must admit that it is not so wonderful for such a big gentleman to change into a big animal as it would be if he could change into a little one. I suppose you could not, for instance, change into a mouse."

-"Could not?" cried the ogre. "You shall see."

And in a moment Puss saw a little brown mouse running about the floor. With one spring she pounced upon it and gobbled it up. And that was the end of the ogre.

By this time the king had arrived at the castle. Puss, hearing the carriage wheels, ran to the gate and cried,

-"Welcome, Your Majesty, to the castle of the Marquis of Carrabas!"

-"What, my lord!" cried the king, turning to the miller´s son, "Does this castle also belong to you? I have nothing so fine in my whole kingdom."

The miller´s son did not speak, but gave his hand to the princess to help her to alight from the carriage. They entered the castle and, in the dining hall, found preparations for a grand feast, which the ogre had planned to serve to some guests he had expected.

But the ogre´s friends did not arrive, since news reached them that the king was in the castle. Every moment the king became more and more charmed with the miller´s son. After they had feasted he said,

-"There is no one in the world I should like so much to be my son-in-law. I now create you a prince."

Then the prince said there was no one in the world he would like so much for his wife as the princess. And the princess said there was no one in the world she would like so much for a husband as the prince. So the two were married and lived happily ever after in the ogre´s castle.And Puss was made a lady-in-waiting. She was the greatest favorite with the king and the prince and the princess.

Never again did she have to hunt mice for a meal, but she was served all kinds of delicacies until the end of her days.

THE END

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Puss in Boots. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés para niños

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No te puedes perder en Guiainfantil.com 'Puss in Boots', cuentos en inglés para niños cuya versión en español es el Gato con Botas. Una divertida historia de Charles Perrault narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita versión del Flautista de Hamelin narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten. Los cuentos tradicionales son ideales para enseñar inglés a los niños de forma sencilla e instructiva.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Cuentos en inglés

Long long time ago, something very strange happened in the prosper town of Hamelin.

One morning, when his fat and satisfied inhabitants came out of their houses, they found the streets invaded by thousands of mice. They were prowling everywhere, devouring insatiably the grain of their barns and the food of their pantries.

Nobody could understand the cause of such an invasion and, even worse, nobody knew what to do to end with such a disturbing plague. No matter how they tried to exterminate them, or at least frighten them off, it seemed that each time more and more mice went to the city.

It was such the amount of mice that, day after day, dominated the streets and houses that even the cats fled frightened.

In view of the seriousness of the situation that the distinguished men of the town, who were seeing their fortunes in danger, called the Council and said

"We'll give one hundred golden coins to the person who gets out of the mice".

Few time after, a taciturn, tall and gangling flutist introduced to them. Nobody had seen him before and he told them.-

"The reward will be mine. By this night, there won't be a single mouse in Hamelin".

After that, he started walking through the streets playing with his flute a wonderful melody which enchanted the mice. They went out of their hidden places following spellbound the steps of the flutist who was playing his flute tirelessly.

This way, walking and playing, he took them to a very far place, so far that the walls of the town could not be seen. In that place, there was a large river where all the mice died drowned when they tried to cross it to follow the flutist.

The people from Hamelin, breathed relieved when they saw themselves free from the voracious troops of mice.

Cuentos clásicos en inglés para niños

Calmed and satisfied, they returned to their prosper business and they were so happy that they organized a big party to celebrate the happy ending eating excellent food and dancing until night.

The next morning, the flutist went to the Council and claimed the distinguished men of the town the one hundred golden coins promised as a reward. But they, free from their problem and, blind by their avarice, replied him

"Go out of our town! Or do you think that we'll pay you for such a little thing as playing the flute?"

After they had said that, the fat members of the Council turn their back laughing. Furious by the avarice and ingratitude of the people from Hamelin, the flautist played a sweet melody insistently.

But this time, there were not the mice who followed him, but the children of the town. Hand in hand and smiling, they were making a long row, deaf to the pleas and cries from their parents who weeping with desperation were trying to prevent them from following the flutist.

They did not get anything and the flutist took them far far away, so far away that nobody knew where and the children, as the mice, never returned.

In the city, there only remained their fat inhabitants and their full barns and well provided pantries, protected by their solid walls and an immense cloak of silence and sadness

And that's what happened many many years ago in this desert and empty town of Hamelin where, no matter how you look for, you will never find nor a mouse neither a child.

THE END

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita versión del Flautista de Hamelin narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos. Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten.

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita versión narrada en inglés del cuento clásico de Los Tres Cerditos para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten. Los cuentos tradicionales son ideales para enseñar inglés a los niños de forma sencilla e instructiva

The Three Little Pigs. Cuentos en inglés

Once upon a time there were three little pigs.

One day they set out from the farm where they had been born. They were going out into the world to start new lives and enjoy any adventures that might come their way.

The first little pig met a man carrying some straw, and he asked him if he might have some to build himself a house.

-"Of course, little pig," said the man.

He gave the little pig a big bundle of straw, and the little pig built himself a lovely house of golden straw.

A big bad wolf lived nearby. He came along and saw the new house and, feeling rather hungry and thinking he would like to eat a little pig for supper, he called out:

-"Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the little pig replied,
-"No, no, by the hair of my chinny chin chin, I´ll not let you in!"
So the wolf shouted very crossly,
-"Then I´ll huff and I´ll puff, Till I blow your house in!"
And he huffed and he puffed, and he HUFFED and he PUFFED until the house of straw fell in, and the wolf ate the little pig for his supper that evening.

The second little pig was walking along the road when he met a man with a load of wood.

-"Please Sir," he said, "can you let me have some of that wood so that I can build a house?"

-"Of course," said the man, and he gave him a big pile of wood.

In no time at all, the little pig had built himself a lovely house.

Cuento en inglés para los niños

The next evening, along came the same wolf. When he saw another little pig, this time in a wooden house, he called out,
-"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."
To which the pig replied,

-"No, no, by the hair of my chinny chin chin, I´ll not let you in!"

So the wolf shouted,

-"Then I´ll huff and I´ll puff, Till I blow your house in!"

And he huffed and he puffed and he HUFFED and he PUFFED until the house fell in and the wolf gobbled up the little pig for his supper.

The third little pig met a man with a cartload of bricks.

-"Please Sir, can I have some bricks to build myself a house?" he asked, and when the man had given him some, he built himself a lovely house with the bricks.

The big bad wolf came along, and licked his lips as he thought about the third little pig. He called out,

-"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!"

And the little pig called back,

-"No, no, by the hair of my chinny chin chin, I´ll not let you in!"

So the wolf shouted,
-"Then I´ll huff and I´ll puff, Till I blow your house in!"
And the wolf huffed and he puffed, and he HUFFED and he PUFFED, and he HUFFED again and PUFFED again, but still the house, which had been so well built with bricks, did The Three Little Pigs not blow in, no matter how hard the wolf tried.

The wolf went away to think how he could trick the little pig, and he came back and called through the window of the brick house,

-"Little pig, there are some marvellous turnips in the farmer´s field. Shall we go there tomorrow morning at six o´clock and get some?"

The little pig thought this was a very good idea, as he was very fond of turnips, but he went at five o´clock, not six o´clock, and collected all the turnips he needed before the wolf arrived.

The wolf was furious, but he thought he would try another trick. He told the little pig about the apples in the farmer´s orchard, and suggested they both went to get some at five o´clock the next morning.

The little pig agreed, and went as before, an hour earlier. But this time the wolf came early too, and arrived while the little pig was still in the apple tree. The little pig pretended to be pleased to see him and threw an apple down to the wolf.

While the wolf was picking it up, the little pig jumped down the tree and got into a barrel. He rolled quickly clown the hill inside this barrel to his house of bricks and rushed in and bolted the door.

The wolf was very angry that the little pig had got the better of him again, and chased him in the barrel back to his house.

When he got there he climbed on to the roof, intending to come down the chimney and catch the little pig that way. The little pig was waiting for him, however, with a large cauldron of boiling water on the fire.

The wolf came down the chimney and fell into the cauldron with a big SPLASH, and the little pig quickly put the lid on it.

The wicked wolf was never seen again, and the little pig lived happily in his brick house for many many years.

THE END

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The Three Little Pigs. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés para niños

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No te pierdas en Guiainfantil.com The Three Little Pigs es uno de los cuentos tradicionales para niños en inglés. Una bonita versión narrada en inglés del cuento clásico de Los Tres Cerditos para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

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Un cuento en inglés es mucho más que un entretenimiento para los niños. Con ellos podemos animarles a iniciarse en el bilingüismo, ayudándoles a adquirir vocabulario en otros idiomas.

Por eso conviene compartir con ellos historias tan conocidas como la de la Bella Durmiente. Un cuento de princesas tradicional que ahora podemos compartir con los niños.

Cuento de la Bella Durmiente en inglés para niños

Once upon a time lived a king and queen, who said wanted to have a baby more than anything in the world. Finally the queen bore a daughter so beautiful that the king could not contain himself for joy, and he ordained a great feast. Not only did he bid to it his relations, friends, and acquaintances, but also the wise women, that they might be kind and favourable to the child. There were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but as he had only provided twelve golden plates for them to eat from, one of them had to be left out.

However, the feast was celebrated with all splendour; and as it drew to an end, the wise women stood forward to present to the child their wonderful gifts: one bestowed virtue, one beauty, a third riches, and so on, whatever there is in the world to wish for. And when eleven of them had said their say, in came the uninvited thirteenth, burning to revenge herself, and without greeting or respect, she cried with a loud voice,

-In the fifteenth year of her age the princess shall prick herself with a spindle and shall fall down dead.

And without speaking one more word she turned away and left the hall.

Every one was terrified at her saying, when the twelfth came forward, for she had not yet bestowed her gift, and though she could not do away with the evil prophecy, yet she could soften it, so she said,

-The princess shall not die, but fall into a deep sleep for a hundred years.

Now the king, being desirous of saving his child even from this misfortune, gave commandment that all the spindles in his kingdom should be burnt up. The maiden grew up, adorned with all the gifts of the wise women; and she was so lovely, modest, sweet, and kind and clever, that no one who saw her could help loving her.

One day shue was wandering about into all the nooks and corners, till at last she came to an old tower. She climbed the narrow winding stair which led to a little door; she turned the key, and the door opened, and there in the little room sat an old woman with a spindle, diligently spinning her flax.

-Good day, mother- said the princess, - what are you doing?

-I am spinning- answered the old woman, nodding her head.

-What thing is that that twists round so briskly ?- asked the maiden, and taking the spindle into her hand she began to spin; but no sooner had she touched it than the evil prophecy was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.

In that very moment she fell back upon the bed that stood there, and lay in a deep sleep. And this sleep fell upon the whole castle; the king and queen, who had returned and were in the great hall, fell fast asleep, and with them the whole court. And the wind ceased, and not a leaf fell from the trees about the castle. Round about that place there grew a hedge of thorns thicker every year, until at last the whole castle was hidden from view, and nothing of it could be seen but the vane on the roof.

Years afterwards came a king's son into that country, because he wanted to try to see the beautifull sleeping princess. When the prince drew near the hedge of thorns, it was changed into a hedge of beautiful large flowers, which parted and bent aside to let him pass, and then closed behind him in a thick hedge.

He came into the castle and saw in the hall the whole court lying asleep, and above them, on their thrones, slept the king and the queen. And still he went further, and all was so quiet that he could hear his own breathing; and at last he came to the tower, and went up the winding stair, and opened the door of the little room where the princess was still sleeping.

When he saw her looking so lovely in her sleep, he could not turn away his eyes; and presently he stooped and kissed her. And she awaked, and opened her eyes, and looked very kindly on him. And she rose, and they went forth together, and the king and the queen and whole court waked up. Then the wedding of the Prince and the Sleeping Beauty was held with all splendour, and they lived very happily ever after.

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Sleeping Beauty. Cuento infantil de princesas en inglés

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita versión de la liebre y la tortuga narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten. Los cuentos tradicionales son ideales para enseñar inglés a los niños de forma sencilla e instructiva.

The hare and the turtle, fábulas en inglés

In the world of the animals, there was a very arrogant hare because she said to everyone she was the fastest. That's why she was always laughing at the slow turtle.

-Look at the turtle! Hey turtle, don't run so much that you're going to get tired of going so fast!- The hare used to say laughing at the turtle.

One day, they were talking and it occurred to the turtle to make a strange bet with the hare.

-I'm sure I can win you a race- she said.

- To me?- asked the hare astonished.

-Yes, to you. Let's put our bet on that stone and let's see who wins the race.

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The hare, very amused, accepted. All the animals met to watch the race. The road and the finishing line were marked. Once it was ready, the race started among big applauses.

Relying on her speed, the hare left the turtle go and she remained lazing about. She had time enough to win such a slow creature!

Then she start running, she run fast as the wind while the turtle went slow but without stopping. At once she went ahead. She stopped next to the road and she sat to rest.

When the turtle passed by her side, the hare made fun of her once more. She left her advantage and set out her quick walk. She did the same several times but, in spite of her mocks, the turtle kept her way until she arrived to the finishing line. When the hare woke up, she ran with all her might but it was too late, the turtle had won the race.

That day was very sad for the hare and she learnt a lesson she would never forget: you must never mock of the others.

THE END

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The hare and the turtle. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés para niños

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita versión de la liebre y la tortuga narrada en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos. Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten.

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Para que los niños aprendan idiomas, no hay nada como practicar con ellos en casa, además de en el colegio. Así se acostumbran a escucharlo y aprenden vocabulario.

En esta ocasión os invitamos a leer con los niños en cuento de ' Pinocho', un personaje muy popular en la literatura infantil. Su historia enseña a los niños la importancia de ser sinceros y no decir mentiras.

Cuento en inglés para niños. Pinocchio

Once upon a time lived a wood carver named Geppetto. He made puppets from pieces of wood, and he called his favorite puppet Pinocchio.

- I would love to be a father to a real boy like Pinocchio- he wished.

That night, the blue fairy, who knew Geppetto was a good man, cost a magic spell over Pinocchio. The very next day, Gappetto awake and was very happy to find that Pinocchio could walk, sit and talk like a real boy.

Geppetto wanted to send Pinocchio to school. He sold his only coat for a spelling book.

- Now you can go to school like a real boy -s aid Gappetto as we waved goodbye to Pinocchio.

On the way to school, Pinocchio stopped to wacth a puppet show in a town.

- How would you like to join my puppet show? - asked the evil puppet master.

Pinocchio happily agreed. He was locked inside the evil puppet master's caravan. He wished he was safe with Geppetto. The blue fairy suddenly appeared. She had heard Pinocchio's wish and set him free. Pinocchio is happy to be free.

- I'm going straight to school- he said.

But he met an evil fox who told him all about a wonderful place called fun island. Pinocchio forgot all about school and gave the fox his spelling book in return for a ticket to Fun island.

- Where are you going, Pinocchio?- asked the b fairy.

- I'm on the way to school - lied Pinocchio.

Pinocchio's nose grew very, very long. He wished he hadn't told a lie. The fairy called a bird to peck of his long nose because Pinocchio was very sorry. Pinocchio promised never to be naughty ever again and went straight to school.

At school, Pinocchio told his friend all about fun island. His friend wanted to go with him. Pinocchio and his hurriedly climbed aboard a ship that was going to Fun Island. On the island they didn't know that little boys were turned into donkeys and used for very hard work.

Pinocchio cried and wished he hadn't come the island. He also wished didn't look like a silly donkey. The blue fairy had heard his wish and with a wave of her magic wand his donkey ears and tail disappeared. Pinocchio sad on the shore, sadly looking out to the sea. He wondered if he would ever see Geppetto again.

Suddenly, he saw Geppetto who had sailed out to the sea in search of Pinocchio. Geppetto didn't see the huge whale behind him. The whale swallowed Geppetto and his boat. Pinocchio knew he had to save Geppetto. He jumped into the water and swam with all his might. As he got closer, the whale open his mouth and Pinocchio swam right in. Deep inside the whale's belly, Pinocchio and Geppetto hugged each other, happy to be together again.

- We must find a way out- said Geppetto - we will make a fire from the wood of my boat.

The smoke made the whale sneeze. They shot out of the whale's mouth and back into the sea. Pinocchio and Geppetto swam safely to shore. They were both tired. They laid on the sand and fell asleep. When Geppetto awoke, he saw that the blue fairy, as a reward for being so brave, had turned Pinocchio into a real boy.

- At last my wish has come true!- cried Geppetto.

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Pinocchio. Cuentos tradicionales en inglés para niños

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Cuentos en inglés para que los niños aprendan idiomas. Cuento de Pinocho para niños. Enseñar a los niños inglés con cuentos infantiles. Cuento Pinocchio en inglés. Cuento de Pinocho para niños. Un cuento para que los niños se diviertan y aprenden el idioma inglés de una forma fácil y entretenida.

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Los cuentos infantiles son ideales para entretener a los niños, y también en ellos aprenden valores. Pero además podemos enseñarles idiomas gracias a los cuentos en inglés.

Podemos compartir con los niños este original cuento, ' El patito feo', que enseña a los niños a no juzgar a las apariencias y a respetar a los demás. Te animaos a compartir este cuento en inglés con tus hijos.

The Ugly Duckling. Cuento tradicional infantil en inglés

Once upon a time down on an old farm, lived a duck family, and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. One nice morning, the eggs hatched and out popped six chirpy ducklings.

But one egg was bigger than the rest, and it didn´t hatch. Before she had time to think about it, the last egg hatched.

A strange looking duckling with gray feathers that should have been yellow gazed at a worried mother. The ducklings grew quickly, but Mother Duck had a secret worry.

- "I can´t understand how this ugly duckling can be one of mine!" she said to herself

Well, the gray duckling certainly wasn´t pretty. As the days went by, the poor ugly duckling became more and more unhappy because his brothers didn´t want to play with him.

He felt sad and lonely. He secretly wept at night. He felt nobody wanted him.

-"Nobody loves me, they all tease me! Why am I different from my brothers?"

Then one day, at sunrise, he ran away from the farmyard. He stopped at a pond and began to question all the other birds.

-"Do you know of any ducklings with grey feathers like mine?"

But everyone shook their heads in scorn.

- "We don´t know anyone as ugly as you."

The ugly duckling did not lose heart, however, and kept on making inquiries.

He fled as far away as he could, and at dawn, he found himself in a thick bed of reeds.

-"If nobody wants me, I´ll hid here forever."

There was plenty a food, and the duckling began to feel a little happier, though he was lonely.

One day at sunrise, he saw on a pond a group of beautiful birds. White, with long slender necks, yellow beaks and large wings.

- "If only I could look like them, just for a day!" said the duckling, admiringly.

Finally he got the courage to fly to the pond, where the beautiful birds were swimming. That was when the duckling saw himself mirrored in the water.

- "Goodness! How I´ve changed! I hardly recognize myself!"

When the beautilf birds saw him, they realized he was one of their kind, and soon made friends.

-"We´re swans like you!" they said, warmly.

-"Where have you been hiding?"

-"It´s a long story," replied the young swan, still astounded.

Now, he swam majestically with his fellow swans.

One day, he heard children on the river bank exclaim: "Look at that young swan! He´s the finest of them all!" And he almost burst with happiness.

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The Ugly Duckling. Cuento infantil en inglés

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Los cuentos infantiles son ideales para entretener a los niños, y también en ellos aprenden valores. Pero además podemos enseñarles idiomas gracias a los cuentos en inglés. Podemos compartir con los niños este original cuento, ' El patito feo', que enseña a los niños a no juzgar a las apariencias y a respetar a los demás.

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Te presentamos en inglés este cuento tradicional para que tus hijos aprendan jugando. Una bonita historia de fantasía escrita por los hermanos Grimm y narrada aquí en inglés para que enseñes este idioma a tus hijos.

Un divertido cuento en inglés que podrás leer a tus hijos para que aprendan inglés mientras se divierten. Los cuentos tradicionales son ideales para enseñar inglés a los niños de forma sencilla e instructiva.

The Frog Prince. Cuentos en inglés

There was once a handsome young prince who had the misfortune to offend a wicked fairy.

To avenge herself she turned him into an ugly frog and put him into a well. Now it happened that the well was in the courtyard of a king´s palace and on fine days, when the sun shone warmly, the king´s youngest daughter sometimes came there to amuse herself by tossing a golden ball high into the air and catching it as it fell.

The poor frog watched her running to and fro in the sunshine. He thought she was the prettiest princess he had ever seen.

One day, the princess threw the ball up so high that when she stretched out her hand to catch it the ball bounced on the stones and fell with a splash into the water. She ran to the edge of the well and gazed down. But the golden ball had sunk far, far out of sight.

Only a little ring of bubbles showed her where it had disappeared. She began to cry bitterly. The frog popped his head out of the water.

"Don´t cry, Princess!" he said.

"What will you give me if I bring your ball from the bottom of the well?"

"Oh, I will give you anything I have," replied the princess. "My pretty pearls, my diamonds-even my crown. Only please bring my ball back to me!"

"I do not want your pearls or your diamonds or your crown," said the frog. "But if you will promise to love me, and let me eat from your plate, and drink out of your cup, and sleep on your bed, I will bring your ball safely back to you."

And the princess promised. For she said to herself, "What a silly frog! As if he could ever get out of the well and walk all the way to the palace! He will never find me."

The frog dove to the bottom of the well and presently came up with the golden ball in his mouth. The princess had no sooner snatched it from him than she forgot all about her promise and ran back to the palace laughing with joy.

The next day, as she sat at dinner with the king and his courtiers, something came flopping up the great staircase-flip flap, flip flap! And a voice said:

"From the deep and mossy well, Little princess, where I dwell, When you wept in grief and pain I brought your golden ball again."

The princess dropped her spoon with a clatter on her plate, for she knew it was the frog who had come to claim her promise.

"What is the matter, daughter?" asked the king.

"There is someone knocking at the door and your rosy cheeks are quite pale."

Cuentos en inglés para los niños

Then the princess had to tell her father all that had happened the day before how she had dropped her golden ball into the well, and how the frog had brought it up for her, and of the promises she had given him. The king frowned and said,

"People who make promises must keep them. Open the door and let the frog come in."

The princess opened the door very unwillingly and the poor frog hopped into the room, looking up into her face with his ugly little eyes.

"Lift me up beside you," he cried, "that I may eat from your plate and drink out of your cup."

The princess did as he asked her and was obliged to finish her dinner with the frog beside her, for the king sat by to see that she fulfilled her promise.

When they had finished, the frog said,

"I have had enough to eat. Now I am tired. Take me up and lay me on your pillow, that I may go to sleep."

Then the princess began to cry. It was so dreadful to think that an ugly frog, all cold and damp from the well, should sleep in her pretty white bed. But her father frowned again and said,

"People who make promises must keep them. He gave you back your golden ball and you must do as he asks."

So the princess picked the frog up between her thumb and finger, not touching him more than she could help, and carried him upstairs and put him on the pillow on her bed. There he slept all night long. As soon as it was light he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the palace.

"Now", thought the princess, "he is gone and I shall be troubled with him no more".

But she was mistaken, for when night came again she heard tapping at the door of her bedroom. When she opened it, the frog came in and slept upon her pillow as before until the morning broke.

The third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke the following morning, she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince standing at the head of her bed.

He was gazing at her with the most beautiful eyes that ever were seen. He told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked fairy, who had changed him into the form of a frog, in which he was fated to remain until a princess let him sleep upon her bed for three nights.

"You," said the prince, "have broken this cruel spell and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me to my father´s kingdom, where I will marry you and love you as long as you live."

The princess took him to her father and he gave his consent for them to marry. As they spoke a splendid carriage drove up with eight beautiful horses decked with plumes of feathers and golden harness.

Behind rode the prince´s servant, who had bewailed the misfortune of his dear master so long and so bitterly that his heart had almost burst. Then all set out full of joy for the prince´s kingdom. There they arrived safely and lived happily ever after.
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Wash your hands regularly.

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