Read good fairy tales online. The best modern fairy tales for children

Modern fairy tales for children are created by many writers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and authors from foreign countries. They contain bright names that attract attention, as well as an interesting and captivating plot.

Authors of modern fairy tales

• Alexey Ars Chernyshev.
• Alexey Klyuev.
• Anatoly Valevsky.
• Andrey Zhvalevsky.
• Boris Aidabolov.
• Vasily Bystrov.
• Victoria Streltsova.
• Vladimir Kosarev.
• Vladimir Radimirov.
• Daniil Petrov.
• Dina Sabitova.
• Eva Alekseeva.
• Evgeny Krymov.
• Evgenia Pasternak.
• Ekaterina Nikolaeva.
• Elena Rakitina.
• Igor Nakonechny.
• Inna Sudareva.
• Marina Aromstam.
• Sel Leram.
• Seraphima Toulouse.
• Svetlana Kapustina.
• Polina Ganzhina.
• Tatiana Kim.
• Yana Sipatkina.

Tales of Sel Leram

Modern fairy tales for children Sel Leram are interesting and instructive. A very dynamic and exciting plot will interest any child. Their bright names attract attention: “Red Raven”, “A Tale of Fidelity, or Where Mermaids Came From”, “About a White Unicorn”, “About True Friendship”, “About a Princess, Memory and Love”, “About a Lost Magic Wand” ".

At the heart of her fairy tale “About Love, or Where the Fairies Came From” is a simple plot. One day a girl named Fairy went out for a walk and met a prince named Fairy. His father, a noble king, forbade him to marry his chosen one, since he had already chosen a bride for him long ago. The fairy was put in a tower. But the prince freed her and ran away with her. When the king found out about this, he ordered his subjects to immediately find them. The chase began. The first time they managed to escape thanks to the mermaids. Thinking that no one was chasing them, they got out onto land. However, they began to catch up with them again. The second time they were hidden by forest nymphs. After some time, the lovers set off. But again they heard the approaching clatter of hooves. They found themselves over a precipice on the mountainside. The fairy prayed to mother earth. The voice said not to be afraid of anything and to jump down. That's what they did. The butlers who caught up with them saw that they were dead and returned to the castle. Immediately two flowers rose from the ground, blossomed, and the resurrected lovers flew out of them. Only now they have become very small with transparent wings. This is how fairies came into being.

Tales of Sipatkina Yana

Modern fairy tales for children by this writer are worthy of attention. The author wrote the following fairy tales: “Angel and the Blue Butterfly”, “Goblin from the Closet”, “Charlie the Clown”, “Black Cat”, “The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly”, “Girl with a Magic Box”, “Peter and Chamomile”, “ The Tale of a Smart Lamb" and others. "A Letter to Grandfather Frost" by Yana Sipatkina is a modern New Year's fairy tale for children about miracles and the fulfillment of cherished desires. The main character of the fairy tale is a little girl Katya, who really wanted to receive a real dog as a gift from Grandfather Frost. Every year she sent him letters, but for some reason she received a doll or a soft toy. She doubted the existence of magic and wrote about it in her next letter to Grandfather Frost. The parents who read it decided not to disappoint their daughter and buy a puppy. Before the holidays, dad went on a business trip. On New Year's Eve, Katya saw a beautiful gift waiting for her under the Christmas tree. She eagerly unpacked it and saw a dog wagging its tail. - Mom, mom, Grandfather Frost exists! - the girl screamed joyfully. Mom smiled and went to meet her husband. But I was very surprised when I realized that he had not returned yet. And suddenly the door opened and Katya’s dad came in with a small puppy in his arms. Since then, two dogs have settled in their family, thanks to which the girl and her parents believed in the existence of Santa Claus.

The best modern fairy tales of Russian and foreign writers

These tales are very interesting. They are designed for children of preschool and primary school age.

• "Hercules. 12 great labors: how it really happened. An eyewitness account" (S. Sedov).
• “Where is my sister” (S. Nurdqvist).
• “How the elephant fell from the sky” (K. DiCamillo).
• "Adventures of toys in an ordinary apartment" (E. Pasternak).
• "The True Story of Santa Claus" (A. Zhvalevsky E. Pasternak).
• "Seryozhik" (E. Rakitina).
• "Tales about Karlchen" (R. Berner).
• "Tosya-Bosya and the gnome Clean" (L. Zhutaute).
• "The Snail and the Whale" (D. Donaldson).
• "Circus in a box" (D. Sabitova).

Famous folk tales with a modern twist

Modern folk tales in a new way are very funny and even instructive. They are not intended for children. Adults or teenagers will understand their humor.

Russian fairy tale "About brave ingenuity." The father-king had half the kingdom, the rest half belonged to his sons. One day he gathered them together and said: “Dear sons, brave fellows, I give you this task. Whoever tears a thick paper packet, to him I will give my half of the kingdom.”

No matter how hard the sons tried, nothing worked out for them. Then the king came up, untied the pack and said: “Don’t despair, since you couldn’t tear the pack right away, try one piece at a time.” The sons immediately got to work and tore the entire thick paper bundle.

“Remember, my dears, three truths,” said the king. “If you can’t do something right away, it will definitely work out, but gradually. If you can’t do something yourself, then do it together. If you manage to take it by force, then use cunning and ingenuity. Do you understand?"

“You don’t understand anything,” the king laughed. “You just broke up and now your half of the kingdom has become mine.” This is the end of the fairy tale, and so are the sons.

Modern short fairy tales for children

The first fairy tale is “About the Silver Hoof”. Once upon a time there was a little goat, and he had an unusual hoof - a silver one. Wherever he knocks, a ruble appears in small change. If he stomps a couple of times, he’s a steward. And if he knocks three times, then a thousand appears in a bank package. Perestroika scared the little goat and is now running all over the country. Everyone catches him: the police, the army, the KGB, the FSB and other services. But they can’t catch him. And they are caught not out of curiosity or self-interest. The fact is that each such run is at least fifteen percent inflation. So if you find this money somewhere, then immediately run with it to the central bank to hand it over. These are superfluous, they will be destroyed there. But if you catch this goat, then our country will immediately rise from the crisis. And everything will be equal to the Russian currency, and the US dollar will be equal to one ruble. This will be a real fairy tale for the Russian people.

Modern folk tales can have a completely unexpected ending. One of them is “About the chicken Ryaba”. Once upon a time there lived a grandfather and a woman, and one day she laid an egg, and not an ordinary one, but a golden one. And they began to beat him. They beat for a long time, but in the end, of course, they broke. And they got the hang of it. They began to break dishes and glass, break furniture, scratch the elevator, and litter in the entrance. Such an outbreak of vandalism can happen to uncultured people who fall into the hands of valuable objects.

Conclusion

Good modern fairy tales for children, as it turns out, are quite difficult to choose. Many of them are simple and banal to the extreme. Others don’t even look like fairy tales at all. Some children should not listen to at all, as their plot is striking in its absurdity. Maybe all the best has already been written long ago? And no one can compare with Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perot, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Korney Chukovsky and other brilliant writers? Perhaps, but only time can put everything in its place. But still, from the existing variety, there are good fairy tales for children by modern authors. They have bright and memorable names, a fascinating plot, characterized by novelty and originality. Many of them are simply interesting stories, others broaden children's horizons about the world around them, and some of them are very instructive.

Is it a fairy tale for children? Initially, no. The first books of fairy tales were collections of folklore stories, and it was impossible to call them children's books, even if one wanted to. Only later did fairy tales, adapted by writers, become reading material for children. In Russia, the first fairy tale written specifically for children appeared only in 1829. It was the well-known “Black Hen, or Underground Inhabitants” by Anthony Pogorelsky.

It is unlikely that today anyone will seriously begin to argue that fairy tales are a useless atavism, but at the dawn of the Soviet era they were recognized as harmful. Many people got it back then, and especially Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky for “Crocodile”, “Cockroach” and “Tsokotukha Fly”. Books with folk tales were removed from libraries, and fairy-tale “mysticism” was considered nonsense that interfered with the education of the working class. But the fairy tale survived just like the New Year.

Today the fairy tale lives in a variety of genres and book formats. The choice is huge: folk and original, modern and ancient, translated and Russian, adapted and unadapted, “uncut.” Connoisseurs of authenticity can purchase reprinted editions of ancient books, and fans of everything modern can purchase fairy tales dressed in the most conceptual literary and design form.

Fairy tales for the little ones

When should you start learning about fairy tales? Yes, actually, when you don’t know how to read yet! Many fairy tales are intended to be told to children who have not yet fully mastered oral speech skills.

“Teremok”, “Kolobok”, “Turnip” have a simple plot and gradually introduce the child to the world around him. The main characters - animals and objects - acquire human thoughts and voices and act just like people: sometimes wisely and nobly, sometimes stupidly and cruelly. Usually such fairy tales are read not two or three, but many times, and the lessons that the heroes receive are remembered by the child for life.

Author's fairy tales that three-year-olds happily listen to include adapted fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and funny stories by Chukovsky, Marshak, Suteev, and Sladkov. There are also many children's books that have long been considered classics abroad, but have recently gained popularity in Russia: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “The Dreamy Chameleon” by Eric Carle, “The Enormous Crocodile” and “The Amazing Mr. Fox” by Roald Dahl, “Crictor” and "Emil. The Good Octopus" by Tomi Ungerer, "Meowli" by Judith Kerr and "Charlotte the Sheep" by Anu Stoner... They are created just for the little ones, they contain talking animals, and unusual incidents, and, of course, educational - but unobtrusive - element.

The main thing in all fairy tales for little ones is that they teach them to separate black from white, tell them how important kindness and mutual assistance are, and also confirm that any evil always gets what it deserves. But design is no less important. It’s good if the first book that a child starts reading on his own has large print and bright, memorable illustrations. The artist’s work is no less significant: the more lively and emotional the drawing, the more the little reader will love the book.

Top 10 fairy tales for kids

• Two magpies were chatting. Russian folk tales, songs, nursery rhymes.
• Pan Kotofey. Ukrainian and Belarusian folk tales
• Chukovsky K.I. "Miracle Tree"
• Andersen H.-C. "Ugly duck"
• Perrault S. "Little Red Riding Hood"
• Marshak S.Ya. "Cat house"
• Carl E. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
• Rosen M. "Let's go catch a bear"
• Donaldson D. "The Gruffalo"
• Shtoner A. "Little Santa Claus"

Fairy tales for those who read independently

As a child gets older, he becomes more interested in listening and reading about heroes similar to himself: about children, their adventures, travels, transformations and magical encounters.

First of all, these are original fairy tales: “The Snow Queen” by Andersen, “Pinocchio”, “Baby and Carlson”, “Nils’ Journey with Wild Geese”. In these fairy tales, not only are the heroes children, in whom it is easy to recognize oneself, they also have a place for difficult choices, an independent attempt to figure out the correctness of actions. "The Wizard of the Emerald City" talks about the importance of friendship and mutual assistance, and "Alice in Wonderland" will help you plunge into the unusual world of fantasy.

At this age, children are captivated by the opportunity to immerse themselves in a full-fledged fairy-tale world, be it the world of Nosov, Raspe, Milne, Rodari, talking toys or E. Raud’s little naxitralls - characters that are extremely interesting to follow. The plot is based on dynamic adventures and a real “situation comedy”. Laughter at the characters' funny mistakes and empathy for them in difficult moments determine the emotional background of a child's growing up.

In addition, this is the best period to get acquainted with the classics. Tales of A.S. Pushkin, "The Scarlet Flower" by S. Aksakov, "The Nutcracker" by E. Hoffmann... Books to which, most likely, children will return. Fairy tales of the classics of the 19th century, such as V. Gauff and O. Wilde, are interesting to read not only for children. Often the drama and even mysticism of these works attract adult readers - not to mention "Alice" and "The Little Prince", in which people of all ages willingly look for the most unexpected and deep meanings.

Top 10 fairy tales for children 6-8 years old

• Gauf V. "Little Muk"
• Raskatov M. "The Missing Letter"
• Druzhkov Y. "The Adventures of Pencil and Samodelkin: A True Tale"
• Tolstoy A. "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio"
• Nosov N. "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends"
• Carroll L. "Alice in Wonderland"
• Lindgren A. "Kid and Carlson"
• Nesbit E. "Five Children and It"
• Harris J.C. "The Tales of Uncle Remus"
• Bond M. "A Little Bear Called Paddington"

Fairy tales for "adult" children

The most difficult age for choosing a book is coming, since it is now that the child turns into a teenager. "Carlson" and "Pinocchio" are left behind, it's time to offer "Gulliver's Travels" or "The Jungle Book", where exciting adventures will coexist with the opportunity to absorb a huge amount of new information.

10-12 years old is the best time to read “The Moomins” and get inspired by Krapivin’s “Flying Tales”. "The Night Before Christmas" by Gogol, "Little Tsakhes" by Hoffmann - this is both interesting for a child and quite serious, adult reading. This does not mean at all that the young reader “grew up” from the folk tale. It’s just that now this is a completely different reading, which not only teaches you to distinguish between good and evil, but also introduces you to the culture and traditions of the peoples of the world.

Fairy tales that have developed in China, Japan, and India attract with their unusual flavor, but perhaps the child will also notice something in common between the plots he knows from Russian fairy tales and oriental “exoticism.” For example, the motif of magical power possessed by the simplest-looking objects. Running boots, an invisible hat - something similar exists in the Japanese fairy tale “What the Birds Told.” An old man finds a cap in the forest, and when he puts it on, he begins to understand the voices of birds. They tell him about a variety of human misfortunes, and, traveling from village to village, the old man saves peasants from troubles and misfortunes. Fate rewards the old man for his responsiveness and love for his neighbor. The villagers surround him with universal respect - and what could be more valuable than respect for old age and wisdom in Eastern culture?

Top 10 fairy tales for children 8-12 years old

• Magic tales of Japan. Strawberries under the snow
• Khodza, Zhukrovsky. "The Trusting Tiger. Burmese, Indonesian, Vietnamese fairy tales"
• Magical tales of Sweden
• Jansson T. "All about the Moomins"
• Kipling R.D. "Mowgli"
• Schmidt A. "Murli"
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince"
• Jones D.W. "Walking castle"
• Maar P. "Seven Saturdays in a week"
• Jaster N. "Cute and the Magic Booth"
• Ende M. "The Neverending Story"

Modern fairy tale

A fairy tale is a time-tested way to instill in a child knowledge of how everything works. Fairy tales do not age; they are read and will continue to be read, no matter when they were created. However, this does not mean that fairy tales of the 21st century do not exist.

The fairytale tradition continues today. "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, "How the Elephant Fell from the Sky" by Kate DiCamillo, "A Little Bear Called Paddington" by Michael Bond, "Petson and Findus" by Sven Nordqvist - these are just a few of the wonderful modern foreign fairy tales. Russia also has its own storytellers: Elena Rakitina and Marina Aromshtam, Evgenia Pasternak and Andrei Zhvalevsky, Dina Sabitova and Sergei Sedov. And more and more new excellent original fairy tales are coming out!

Fairy tales are poetic stories about extraordinary events and adventures involving fictional characters. In modern Russian, the concept of the word “fairy tale” has acquired its meaning since the 17th century. Until that point, the word "fable" was supposedly used in this meaning.

One of the main features of a fairy tale is that it is always based on an invented story, with a happy ending, where good defeats evil. The stories contain a certain hint that enables the child to learn to recognize good and evil and to comprehend life through clear examples.

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Reading fairy tales is one of the main and important stages on your child’s path to life. Various stories make it clear that the world around us is quite contradictory and unpredictable. By listening to stories about the adventures of the main characters, children learn to value love, honesty, friendship and kindness.

Reading fairy tales is useful not only for children. Having grown up, we forget that in the end good always triumphs over evil, that all adversity is nothing, and a beautiful princess is waiting for her prince on a white horse. It’s quite easy to give a little good mood and plunge into a fairy-tale world!

Modern writers for children

The book presents works by Lena Arden, Olga Fadeeva, Ekaterina Burmistrova, Vladimir Blagov, Alexey Oleinikov, Yulia Ivanova, Guy Sever and Olga Kamelina. Modern children's authors present their fairy tales, in which unexpected, fresh plots coexist with the classical traditions of children's literature.

“I was interested in reading something new, unusual, something that would make me want to immediately grab a pencil. I must say that some of the works really gave me a characteristic tingling sensation in my fingertips.”

“As a child, I loved to read, but I don’t think that these books will be very interesting to my children today, because the world has changed so much. And I really want books for children to reach them on time, and not when they are as adults as I am now.”

Lena Arden. Tales of the Magic Chestnut

Chapter first. Chestnut

This magical story took place in the courtyard of the most ordinary house, which stood on the most ordinary street of the most ordinary city. Almost all the space in this city, as in many other cities, was occupied by houses, shops, roads, parking areas and tram tracks. People cut down trees so diligently and filled lawns with concrete that there was almost no greenery left here. By some miracle, in the courtyard of this very house, a small island of green grass was preserved, on which grew an old spreading tree - Chestnut. It had a beautiful thick crown that cast a long shadow on the lawn and walls of an ordinary house. Almost at the very roots, the tree trunk forked, and it towered over the lawn in a huge English letter V.

The lawn on which Chestnut grew was surrounded on all sides by curbs and asphalt roads. They completely cut him off from the outside world. Adults living in the apartments of an ordinary house had no idea what an interesting story was happening right under their noses. But some attentive children, of course, suspected something. They often observed how the ants, lined up one after another, climbed over the curb and crossed the road. At this time, another line was walking in the opposite direction, with coffee beans and grains of sugar on their backs. The ants marched with their legs raised high, looking like little military men on parade. If you listen closely, you could hear the cheerful song they sang along the way.

Under the roots of the Chestnut tree, which spread across the lawn in all directions, there was an entire city with houses, shops, restaurants and cafes. It even had its own library with a reading room, which contained books on the history of the lawn, dating back to time immemorial. Then the Chestnut was still a thin twig that grew in the middle of a beautiful meadow, and there were no houses, borders or cars in sight. Underground was the city hall - a dark palace where the mayor of the lawn, the blind Mole, lived. In addition, the large hollows of Chestnut housed a Coffee and Sugar store, a dance school, and a fire department where firefighter beetles worked. In the smaller hollows there are workshops and newsstands.

In one of these workshops, dishes were made from the shells of those very chestnuts that ripened in abundance on the mighty tree every autumn. For several years now, none other than the hero of our magical story, a master of plates and cups, a gentleman named Mouse, has been working in this workshop. His dishes were bought by all the inhabitants of the lawn, both those who lived at the roots of the Chestnut tree, and those higher up, on its branches and in the hollows. Such fame and love from customers made Mouse not an ordinary resident of the lawn, but one of its most respected citizens.

The Mouse lived in a house with a round blue door under one of the large roots of the Chestnut tree. The houses in this part of the lawn were old. They burned here with fallen leaves and old chestnut bark. If you looked closely, you could see small chimneys among the roots. In cold weather, barely noticeable steam-like smoke came out of them. People, of course, saw it, but mistook it for ordinary fog.

The mouse was a real gentleman. To work, he always wore a top hat, a bow tie, and even took with him a cane cut from a Chestnut branch. In the morning, Mouse did not like to rush. He slowly got up, drank a cup of coffee with milk, read the latest newspaper and only then left the house. He walked slowly, and the road to the workshop was more of a pleasant walk than a necessity. Along the way, Mouse stopped to chat with his acquaintances: the postman Snail, who delivered letters and newspapers, the beautiful Butterfly, who worked as a ballet teacher at a dance school, and Aunt Caterpillar, who ran a bakery at a nearby root.

The road to work went up one of the chestnut trunks. Having reached the third large branch, it was necessary to jump over to another trunk. And there it’s already a stone’s throw to the hollow of the workshop. Previously, the workshop belonged to Mouse’s father, and before him – to his grandfather. When his father died, Mouse had to continue the family business. He was very responsible and could not leave the residents of the lawn without dishes. Although, in truth, Mouse always dreamed of one day handing over the workshop to his assistant Frog and doing something else. What exactly, Mouse did not know. He was busy every day making dishes, and he did not have time to think about a new occupation.

In the workshop, Mouse usually turned on the record player and, enjoying the music, began working on the next cup or saucer. The mouse selected the chestnuts for the dishes himself. In autumn they ripened and fell to the ground. Fallen chestnuts often cracked and were no longer suitable for cups and plates. Therefore, the Mouse had to collect the chestnuts that were ripe but had not yet fallen. Then he left them in the workshop to dry in order to turn them into the highest quality dishes until the following autumn. Picking chestnuts has always been hard work. The mouse had to get up very early and run through the branches of a large tree in search of selected chestnuts. In addition, this activity was quite dangerous. A chestnut warning was even announced on the lawn, which the Woodpecker loudly tapped out in Morse code. Then all the shops closed, and residents, with airbags tied to their heads, hurried home and did not go out unless absolutely necessary.

Chapter two

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One morning Mouse was about to enjoy his coffee with milk and read the newspaper. But, to his surprise, there was no milk on the doorstep where the messenger Grasshopper usually left it. Then the Mouse took a fresh newspaper from the mailbox and went to the bakery to see Aunt Caterpillar. In good weather, she placed several tables near the bakery and opened a small outdoor cafe where one could have breakfast.

- Good morning, Aunt Caterpillar! The grasshopper disappeared somewhere today, and I can’t drink coffee without milk.

An invaluable source of wisdom and inspiration for a child. In this section you can read your favorite fairy tales online for free and give children the first most important lessons of world order and morality. It is from the magical narrative that children learn about good and evil, and also that these concepts are far from absolute. Each fairy tale presents its short description, which will help parents choose a topic that is relevant to the child’s age and give him a choice.

By listening to fairy tales, children not only acquire the necessary knowledge, but also learn to build relationships in society, relating themselves to one or another fictional character. From the experience of relationships between fairy-tale characters, the child understands that one should not unconditionally trust strangers. Our website presents the most famous fairy tales for your children. Choose interesting fairy tales from the table provided.

Why is it useful to read fairy tales?

The various plots of the fairy tale help the child understand that the world around him can be contradictory and quite complex. Listening to the hero's adventures, children virtually encounter injustice, hypocrisy and pain. But this is how the baby learns to value love, honesty, friendship and beauty. Always having a happy ending, fairy tales help the child to be optimistic and resist various kinds of life's troubles.

The entertainment component of fairy tales should not be underestimated. Listening to fascinating stories has many advantages, for example, compared to watching cartoons - there is no threat to the baby's vision. Moreover, by listening to children's fairy tales performed by parents, the baby learns many new words and learns to correctly articulate sounds. The importance of this is difficult to overestimate, because scientists have long proven that nothing affects the future comprehensive development of a child more than early speech development.

What kinds of fairy tales are there for children?

Fairy tales There are different ones: magical – exciting children’s imagination with a riot of imagination; everyday - telling about simple everyday life, in which magic is also possible; about animals - where the leading characters are not people, but various animals so beloved by children. A large number of such fairy tales are presented on our website. Here you can read for free what will be interesting to your baby. Convenient navigation will help make finding the right material quick and simple.

Read the annotations to give the child the right to independently choose a fairy tale, because most modern child psychologists believe that the key to children’s future love of reading lies in the freedom to choose material. We give you and your child unlimited freedom in choosing wonderful children's fairy tales!