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Children's

Tale 4 min

Tancred's Powders

Tancred and his sidekicks used to cast a multitude of spells. Their saddlebags were filled to the brim with greed-powder for the jealous and cannon-powder for the violent. Smoke-and-mirrors-powde ... [+]

Children's

Adventure Slice of life 3 min

Noucha

Sandra Bartmann

My name is Noucha, I'm eleven years old and my favorite superhero is me!

Everything in my life is magical, epic and fantastic. I live in the most beautiful house in my neighborhood even though ... [+]

Children's

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

Dragon Fire

Marièke Poulat

Bibop was a little dragon with orange scales. He had been living on Grey Mountain with his mother since he'd been born. That was already nearly a hundred years ago. A hundred years old, that's when ... [+]

Children's

Adventure Friendship & Family 3 min

Orologio

Stéphane Sogsine

— Psst! Kiddo!
Mary continued to walk straight on, looking right ahead of her.
— Psst!
Who was that? Where did that whistle come from?
She turned her head. Nobody there. Nothing but the ... [+]

Children's

Tale 5 min

Mister Rainbow’s Blue Bananas

Philippe Gourdin

Down on the beach, Mister Rainbow was sitting under a palm tree, looking out to sea. A child came up to him.
— Hello, my name is Quentin, and I would like to ask you an important question.
— ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life 1 min

Back to School

Céline Laurent

Thomas had put on his best new school shoes, since it was the first day of the new year.

This morning, when the alarm had gone off, Thomas had woken with a jump.

But now that was already an ... [+]

Children's

Tale 4 min

The Fairy Well

Patrick Ferrer

"Maroussia, don't go too far from the house!"
The little girl shrugged. The old lady was calling to her from the cottage steps, waving her stick like when she rounded up the goats at nightfall ... [+]

Children's

Adventure Slice of life 3 min

I Didn’t Get Much Sleep

Philippe Laperrouse

I will dog sled. There's no better way to the North Pole. I will be muffled up in thirty-six layers of fur and I will drive my pack with great wild cries: Mush! Let's go! Line out! My huskies will ... [+]

Children's

Friendship & Family Slice of life 5 min

Looking for Birds

Sandra Bartmann

Today, for my twelfth birthday, Mom gave me a pair of binoculars to watch the birds and a leatherette notebook with a chain. Notebooks with chains are for girls, and I didn't even know what ... [+]

Children's

Tale 3 min

An Exotic Bird

Justine Roux

The little girl was playing at the edge of the garden. She had decided, on this warm summer's afternoon, that she was going to be an archaeologist. Equipped with her beach bucket, a little plastic ... [+]

Children's

Friendship & Family 3 min

The Meeting

Claire Joanne

I was coming home from school through the park, like I always do, and suddenly, there he was in front of me.
That was the first time I saw him. He looked so amazing that I stopped a few feet from ... [+]

Children's

Adventure 4 min

Tom’s Treasure Hunt

Flore Tanor

They must have been walking for a good two hours. The lights of the town are far behind them. The houses disappeared long ago. Now they are walking through the forest and night is falling. Tom is ... [+]

Children's

4 min

Sizzle Wants to Win the Lottery

Jacques Beauregard

Sizzle was a nice little pig. He was the third boy in the Littlepig family. He shared his little bedroom with his two big brothers, Porky and Hammy. The three little pigs slept in bunk beds and ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life 2 min

Colette Is Really Embarrassed

Flore Tanor

You are my favorite cousin, and as this is the worst day of my life, you are the only person I can talk to about it. I've been missing you, ever since the vacation at Gran and Grandad's over the ... [+]

Children's

Adventure 3 min

Real Treasure

Axel C

Every time summer vacation came round, the parents were in the habit of sending their two children to the country, far away from the bustle of the city. So every July, Julien and his little siste ... [+]

Children's

Friendship & Family 5 min

The Heart Has Its Seasons...

Arnaud Petit

"This is a fruit of every season which carries the scent of its travels..."
My grandfather often repeated this little phrase to me when he was talking about his clouds. He has the best collection ... [+]

Children's

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

May the Magic of the Stage Be With You!

Justine Roux

The bell rang. Enzo gave his parents a quick hug and ran to take his place in the line. There was no doubt that this was going to be the best day of his life: at last he was going to secondary ... [+]

Children's

Slice of Life Young Adult 4 min

A Winter’s Dream

Lena Rossel

Christmas was in full swing everywhere. Wherever I went, old Christmas tunes played cheerfully in the background. In little stores, in shopping malls, in headphones of strangers with the volume fa ... [+]

Children's

Tale 2 min

The Story of the Sunbeam and the Butterfly

Lydie Codez

Once upon a time, in the softness and perfect blossoming of a July summer, a butterfly was fluttering at the whim of the wind, under the knowing gaze of the sun. She flew high in the sky, highe ... [+]