Best Short Moral Stories | 23 Short English Stores with Moral for Kids (2023)

Best Moral Stories in English for 2023– Welcome kids to the section of all-time popular “Stories with Morals“. Great collection of 23 stories for you. These are short stories which are very popular in the world with great morals you should learn. 

Excellent collection of Short stories in English for all our kids. Enjoy a simple short English story collection offering great learning. Every English story included in this collection is short and simple so that it is easy to understand by kids.– 

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1) Short Story – The Wet Pants

This story revolves around a seven-year-old kid who was lying in his seat when his pants became wet and a puddle formed at his feet. His heart nearly skipped a beat as he became concerned that his peers would see and mock him.

He was in a hurry to do something and noticed that the teacher and her student Judy were approaching him. Judy was carrying a bowl of fish. Judy slips and dumps the fishbowl in his lap as they got closer, and the youngster thinks the instructor spotted his wet pants. He pretends to be upset with Judy and rants at her while praising God for his assistance.

Judy gets blamed by everyone in the class for the boy’s wet pants. The instructor assists the boy in changing into dry clothing, and the class resumes. “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” the boy asks Judy later that evening. Judy murmurs, “I wet my pants once as well.”

Moral of the story: Every single one of us has good and terrible days. True friends are those that assist you out when you’re having a rough day.

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2) Short Moral Story: Mongoose And The Baby

This is a well-known story which centres around a Brahmin and his wife who were blessed with a son one day. The Brahmin considered getting a pet for the kid as a way to both guard him and provide him with a companion. He started looking for the pet and came across a mongoose. He took him to his residence.

The Brahmin’s wife was first hesitant to accept a mongoose as a pet. However, she later consented to it. The kid and the mongoose became fast friends. The Brahmin and his wife began to care for the mongoose as if it were their own kid. However, the Brahmin’s wife was usually cautious about the mongoose being near the kid.

The Brahmin’s wife had to go to the market to buy vegetables on one specific day. She instructed the Brahmin to look after the kid. The baby was comfortably resting in the cradle. The Brahmin then proceeded to seek charity. He assumed the mongoose would take care of the baby.

The Brahmin’s wife returned a few hours later and noticed the mongoose at the entrance. His mouth was fully smeared with blood. She assumed that the baby had been attacked by the mongoose. She tossed the basket of veggies at the mongoose right away.

She dashed into the room in search of her baby, only to find him still sleeping peacefully in the cradle. However, there was a dead snake on the floor that had been bitten. Then she realized that the mongoose had fought and killed the snake in order to save the baby. She ran back to the mongoose after realizing her dreadful error, only to find him dead. The Brahmin’s wife sobbed openly after killing the faithful mongoose.

Moral of the story: Consider your actions carefully before taking them, and attempt to comprehend the circumstance first.

3) The Ugly Duckling (Moral Story For Kids)

This is among the foremost well-known fairy stories in the world, and most of us have heard of it. The plot centers around a duckling who has always felt different from his brothers since birth. He was constantly teased since he didn’t look like the other kids. He had had enough and rushed far away from the pond where he had grown up. 

He traveled far and wide in search of a family who would embrace him. Months passed, and seasons changed, but no one wanted him since he was such an unattractive duck. Then he stumbled upon a family of swans one day. When he looked at them, he realized that over the months he had been gone, He’d grown into a lovely swan, looking for a family to call his own. He suddenly realized why he never looked like the rest of his siblings: he is a swan, not a duck.

Moral of the story: We should not pass judgment on people just on the basis of their outward appearance. Each of us is beautiful in our own way, and it’s past time we accepted and celebrated our differences.

4) English Moral Story of – The Tortoise and The Bird

Once upon a time, a tortoise was resting under a tree on which, a bird had built its nest. The tortoise mocked the bird and said, “ Ew! Your home is so shabby. It is made of broken twigs, has no roof, and looks raw. What’s worse is that you had to build it yourself. 

I think my house, which is my shell, is much better than your pathetic nest”. The bird confidently, therefore, replied, “Yes, it is made of broken sticks, looks shabby, and is open to the elements of nature. It is crude and raw, but I built it, and I like it.”. 

I guess it’s just like any other nest, but not better than mine. said the tortoise mockingly. “You must be jealous of my shell, though.”, he added. 

The bird remained calm for a while and then replied, “On the contrary, my home has space for my family and friends; your shell does not let anyone else stay in it other than you. You may have a better house. But I have a better home”.

Therefore, Moral of the story: A crowded hut is better than a lonely kingdom.

5) Short Story with Moral – My Best Friend

Hope you have liked the previous English story. Now let’s begin with another wonderful moral story which is short but very interesting. 

Once upon a time, two friends were walking down through a desert. At some point in the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt. 

Above all, He did not say anything, however, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face”. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath since it was really hot. 

Suddenly, the one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, the other friend saved him without hesitating. 

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “Today my best friend saved my life”. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “When I slapped you, you wrote it in the sand and now, you have written it on a stone! Why? 

The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we should engrave it on a stone so that no wind can ever erase it.”

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Moral of this English story: Always try and see the good in people.

6) Short Moral Stories – Nasir’s Wish

Now is the turn of a very short story for students. One day Nasir found a crystal ball behind a banyan tree in his garden. 

The tree told him that the crystal ball would grant him a wish, he thought very hard, but could not come up with anything he wanted. So, he kept the crystal ball in his bag and waited till he could decide on his wish. 

Days went by without him making a wish but his best friend saw him looking at the crystal ball. He got curious and stole it from Nasir. He showed it to everyone in the village. Everyone in the village got greedy.

They all asked for palaces and gold, but could not make more than one wish as this was the rule of the crystal ball. In the end, everyone was angry because no one could have everything they desired.

They became very unhappy and decided to ask Nasir for help. Nasir had already decided their wish he wanted everything to become as it once was before the villagers had tried to satisfy their greed. The palaces and gold vanished and the villagers felt happy and content once again. 

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Therefore, Moral of The Story is: Greed never makes a person happy.

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7) The Rich Man’s Son (Moral Story for Kids)

Once upon a time, a rich man’s son used to study in a prestigious college. For months, his son wanted a new car but the rich man never granted him his wish even though he had more than enough money. 

When graduation day came, the young man’s father called him into the study, he handed him a wrapped gift and congratulated him on his graduation and his achievement. 

The son opened the gift to find a lovely leather-bound journal, with the young man’s name embossed on the cover. 

Therefore, He was very disappointed and angrily he raised his voice, threw the journal without even opening it, and stormed out. The young man left the house. From that day he never tried to reach his father. 

However, He became successful and was wealthy like his father, with a beautiful home and a family. As years passed, the son realized that his father must be aging and it may be time to put the past behind them. 

Just then, he received a message that his father had passed, and he had to return home to take care of the estate. 

As the mourning son regretfully returned home, he began searching through his father’s important papers and saw that his father still had the journal, just as he had left it.

He opened it, and as he flipped through the pages a car key dropped from the back of the journal. A dealer tag was attached to the key that reads- Paid in full. Wherever this car takes you, write about it to remember it forever. Love, Dad

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Moral of the Story: Be grateful for what you are given. It may be more of a blessing than you think.

8) The Honest Woodcutter (Best Moral Stories for Kids)

Once there lived a poor woodcutter. He earned a living by cutting trees in the woods. One day he was cutting wood on the bank of a river. His axe fell down into the river. The river was deep. 

He could not take his axe out or else he would drown. He sat on the bank and began to weep. Mercury, the god of water appeared. He asked the reason for his weeping. The woodcutter told the god the whole story. 

Mercury dived into the water and brought a golden axe. The woodcutter refused to take it. Mercury dived again and brought a shining silver axe. The woodcutter did not take it either. Then he brought an iron axe. 

The woodcutter took it gladly. Mercury was much pleased with the woodcutter’s honesty. Therefore, He rewarded the woodcutter with golden and silver axes.

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In conclusion, Moral of the story: Honesty is the best policy.

9) Tenali Raman and The Weight Lifter (Moral Story)

One day, Tenali Raman and his wife were on their way to the small town of Hampi. 

They stopped at a village on the way to rest and drink water when they noticed that the entire village had gathered to watch a weightlifter who was putting on a performance. 

With his big arms and bulging muscles, he picked up a 200 kg bag of rice easily in a skip of a heartbeat. 

Tenali was very impressed and exclaimed, “You are very strong! Look how easy it was for you to lift a 200 kg bag! But I can hold up something heavier! I will carry this hill on my bare shoulders!” “How long did it take you to prepare?”, Tenali asked the weightlifter. 

To which he replied, “I worked hard for 3 whole months!” “Since I will be carrying a heavier weight, it will take me more time to prepare, 6 months would be enough!”, proclaimed Tenali. “And to help me prepare, I will need a comfortable place to stay, nourishing food to eat, and daily massages!” 

The villagers were really eager to see Tenali perform this miraculous feat, so they agreed to host him and his wife. 

Each day, he was brought food and given massages. Tenali and his wife spent 6 months living in luxury while everybody got more and more excited for the main day. 

When the day finally arrived, the entire village gathered at the base of the hill, waiting to see what Tenali would do. 

Tenali stood next to the village chief and said, “Well, give it to me, then?” “Give you what exactly?”, the chief asked, looking confused. “You are supposed to pick up the hill!” “I never said I would pick up the hill, I merely said I would carry it on my shoulders. 

Do you not have anyone who can pick it up and place it on my shoulders?” said Tenali with a grin on his face. 

The village chief began to laugh as he realized what Tenali had done. “I bow down to you and your intelligence and wittiness. A man of your wit and acumen should not be asked to carry such a lowly hill!”

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Moral of the story therefore is: Wits are mightier than muscles.

10) Moral Story of – The Cunning Wolf

Once upon a time, there lived a grey-haired skinny wolf.

He could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. The shepherds used to be very alert and never gave him a chance to attack.

Luckily, One night he found a sheepskin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The wolf felt happy as he had thought of a brilliant plan.

The next day, dressed in the sheepskin which was cast aside, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep. 

The shepherd was sitting in the field leaving the sheep grazing. The wolf dressed in the skin of sheep followed the flock of sheep but did not harm them.

He blended among the sheep easily. After a few days, the shepherd saw that only a few sheep were left and only one sheep has turned fat.

When he noticed properly, he found the wolf under the skin of the sheep.

The Shepherd understood everything, took a knife, and killed the wolf. 

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Moral of the story: The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

11) Short story with Moral- The Saint’s Company

Once upon a time in a small town lived a wealthy merchant. He was very kind and charitable.

He had a son, who had unfortunately fallen into bad company. The merchant tried to stop his son many times and advised him not to go with the bad company.

But all of it was in vain. “Please, do not tell me what to do father! I know what is good and what is bad” claimed the son angrily. One day, a great saint came to the town. 

The merchant went to the saint, sought his blessings, and said, “My spoilt son is the only thing that worries me the most.

Please help me”. After a few minutes of contemplation and thinking, the saint replied, “Send your son to my Ashram tomorrow. I will talk to him and make him understand things clearly”.

The Next morning, the merchant sent his son to the saint’s Ashram. There the saint asked the son to pluck a rose from the garden of the Ashram. The son did as the saint asked. 

Then the saint asked the son, “Smell it and feel its fragrance, my son”, The boy did so.

Then the saint showed the son a sack of wheat and said, “Keep the rose near the sack”, The boy followed the instructions.

After an hour, the saint asked the boy to smell the rose again. “How does it smell now?”, the saint asked the boy. The boy smelt the rose and said, “It smells as good as before” Then the saint said, “Hmm! Now keep the rose near this sack of jaggery” The boy did so.

After an hour, the saint asked the boy to smell the rose again. “Is there any change in the fragrance?” the saint asked the boy. “No. It smells just like before, fresh and pleasant” replied the boy. 

Then the saint said, “Boy, you should be like this rose, giving the fragrance to everyone but at the same time not letting the bad smell rub on to you from anyone. Your good qualities are your strength.

You should not lose them in bad company”.The boy understood the saint’s words and wisdom. “I am grateful to you, O Saint, for opening my eyes”, said the merchant’s son with tears in his eyes. From that day, he became honest, kind, and charitable just like his cultured father. 

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Therefore, Moral of the story is: You decide who you want to be.

12) Companionship among Friends (Best Moral Stories)

Once upon a time, there was a lion in a jungle.

Once when he had gone to drink water in a stream, his paw suddenly slipped and got stuck in the wet sluggish mud.

He got stuck there without food for days as he did not see any animal pass by.

One day, a kind jackal came by and he dug a way out from the sand, and with a little push from the lion’s side, he helped the lion get out from the sand.

The lion felt very grateful for this and thanked the jackal for saving his life. 

He then offered the jackal to live close to him and also promised to feed him whenever he caught food.

The jackal gladly accepted the offer of friendship and started living with the lion sharing the hunts. Soon they expanded their families and had cubs and kid jackals.

After a long time, the lioness, the lady of the lion’s house, grew tired of the friendship between the jackal and her master. 

She did not know that the jackal was the one who actually saved her master. She told her cubs that the lion never wanted to stay beside a jackal.

The cubs in turn conveyed the message to the jackal kids who complained to the lady jackal. The lady jackal told everything to her husband. 

The jackal went to the lion and told him that if he did not want the jackal to stay with him, he should have told him a long time back.

The lion was surprised at this and assured the jackal that no such ill feelings existed between the lion and the jackal and assured him that he was always in his debt as the jackal had saved his life.

He even told him that he would talk to the lioness. But the wise jackal then said, “Friend, I know you are sincere.

But our families may not exactly reciprocate the same bond of friendship that we share. 

So, let us stay apart, and meet often as friends and even may go for killing together.

But it is better if my family stays apart from yours” The lion agreed to this and the two families parted as friends.

The lion and the jackal remained friends forever and went on numerous hunts together.

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Moral of the story:

Don’t expect your family to share the same bond of friendship you have with someone.

13) Short Story with Moral about- “Birbal The Just”

Winter had started. The ponds were all starting to freeze. At the court, Akbar asked Birbal, “Tell me Birbal! Will a man do anything for money”, Birbal claimed,” Yes” The emperor ordered him to prove it. 

The next day Birbal came to the court along with a poor Brahmin who had no money left. His family was starving. Birbal told the king that the Brahmin was ready to do anything for the sake of money. 

The king told the Brahmin that if he would stand in the nearly frozen pond without any clothes for the whole night, he may get a reward. The poor Brahmin had no choice. 

The whole night he was inside the pond, shivering. He returned to the durbar the next day to receive his reward. 

The king asked “Tell me Oh poor Brahmin! How could you withstand all that cold along the night and still be alive” The innocent Brahmin replied “I could see a faintly glowing light a kilometer away and I withstood with that ray of light” Akbar got angry and refused to pay the Brahmin his reward saying that he had absorbed the warmth from the faint light and withstood the cold which will be considered as cheating. 

The poor Brahmin could not argue with him and so returned disappointed and bare-handed. Birbal tried explaining to the king but the king was angry and stubborn hence, in no mood to listen. 

Thereafter, Birbal stopped coming to the durbar and sent a messenger to the king saying that he would come to the court only after cooking his khichdi. 

After that Birbal did not turn up for 5 days, the king got curious and he himself went to Birbal’s house to see what he was doing. 

Birbal was sitting there and in front of him was a pot tied one meter above the fire. Akbar was amused and questioned him “How will the khichdi get cooked with the fire one meter away? 

What is wrong with you Birbal” Birbal, cooking the khichdi and with a grin on his face replied “Oh my great King of Hindustan! When it is possible for a person to receive warmth from a light that is a kilometer away, then this khichdi should be cooked very easily as it’s just one meter” Akbar understood the mistake he made. 

After that, He called the poor Brahmin and rewarded him with 5000 gold coins.

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Therefore, the Moral of the story is: Sometimes hasty decisions results in injustice.

14) The Foolish Goat’s – “Short Story” with Morale

Once upon a time, a fox was roaming around in the dark. Unfortunately, he fell into a well. 

He tried his best to come out but all in vain. So, he had no other alternative but to wait for someone there till the next morning. 

The next day, a goat came that way. She peeped into the well and saw the fox there. The goat asked “Is that, you Mr. Fox? What are you doing down there all by yourself?” The silly fox replied, ”I came here to drink water. I heard from somewhere that this well has the best water with the sweetest taste and I was not wrong. Come and see for yourself”.

Without thinking even for a while, the goat jumped into the well, and quenched her thirst. She then tried getting out of the well, but just like the fox, she also found herself helpless and stuck. 

Then the fox said, “I have a brilliant idea.

You stand on your hind legs, I’ll climb on your head and get out. In return, I will also help you climb out of this well”. The goat was very innocent and believed in all the made-up shrewdness of the fox and did as the fox said to help him get out of the well.

While walking away, the fox said, “Had you been intelligent enough, you would never have got in without seeing how to get out”, Saying this the fox went his way laughing over the foolishness of the goat.

Moral of the story: Look before you leap

15) Short Story of The Old Tree with Great Moral

Once upon a time, there were two brothers who lived at the edge of a forest. The elder brother was very mean to his younger brother. He ate up all the food and took all his brother’s good clothes and treated him very badly. 

One day, the elder brother went into the forest to find some firewood so as to sell some in the market. 

As he went around, chopping the branches of trees, tree after tree, he came upon a magical tree. The tree said to him, “Oh kind sir, please do not cut off my branches. 

If you spare me, I will give you some of my golden apples”. The elder brother agreed but was disappointed with the number of apples the tree gave him. Greed overcame him, and he threatened to cut the entire trunk if the tree did not give him the number of apples he wanted. 

The magical tree, instead, showered upon the elder brother, with hundreds of tiny needles. The elder brother cried in pain and laid down under the tree as the sun began to set. 

The younger brother got worried and went in search of his elder brother. He found him lying in pain under the tree, with hundreds of needles on his body. He rushed to his brother and removed each needle one by one with painstaking love. 

After he finished, the elder brother apologized for treating him so badly and promised to be a better big brother. The tree saw the change in the elder brother’s heart and gave them all the golden apples they could ever need.

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Moral of the story: Greed leads to pain and suffering, and forgiveness leads to a happy and content life.

16) Tenali Raman and a handful of grain – Moral Stories for Kids

A long time ago, there lived a beautiful woman called Ramani in Gantodanagar. She was a learned lady with a good amount of knowledge of different fine art genres. 

One day, because of her pride and arrogance about her abilities, she put a hoarding outside her house that said, “ I will give a reward of 1000 gold coins to whosoever defeats me in humor, wit, and knowledge of ancient texts.” This became an issue of prestige for all the scholars in the region. 

Many of them were offended and tried to defeat Ramani in the war of words, but none of them succeeded. 

Days passed like this. One morning, a vendor happened to pass by her house selling firewood. The man was shouting at the top of his voice, “Firewood…Strong firewood…. Is there anyone Who wants my strong and long-lasting firewood?” The Vendor was shouting continuously and had a shrill and high-pitched voice which irritated Ramani. 

She stormed out of the house and called the vendor, “Oh vendor! Come here! I will buy your firewood. Tell me how much money you want! Just stop shouting.” 

The vendor replied, “Madam, I will not sell this for money. I will readily give you all the firewood if you give me a handful of grain for it.” Ramani promised him to give him what he wanted and ordered him to dump the load in the backyard. 

The vendor said, “I need a handful of grain, Madam. Do you understand me clearly?” Ramani yelled at the vendor, “You are asking me whether or not I have understood what a handful of grains mean! Do not try and outsmart me! I am the most learned woman in this entire District. How dare you ask me a question like this?” The persistent vendor said, “Madam, I pity you! You really do not understand what I want. 

If you are not able to give what I want, you should pay me one thousand gold coins and wipe the invitation hoarding on the compound wall.” Ramani was infuriated. She asked angrily, “What nonsense are you saying?” 

The vendor said, “This is no-nonsense. I told you what I wanted and you could not provide me with it. 

Now if you cannot pay the price, you must give me one thousand gold coins for you have clearly failed to understand what I meant. 

And considering that, I have defeated you in the war of words.” A heated argument started between the two and then Ramani decided to approach the provincial Court of Law for justice. 

She presented her argument in front of the judge, “My Lord! This firewood vendor is crazy and is talking nonsense. He asked for a handful of grains in lieu of his load of firewood. 

I agreed to give him that but he keeps saying that I do not know what it means and wants me to wipe off the board in front of the house. I plead for justice!” The judge asked the vendor what is this argument all about. He humbly replied, “Sir, I informed her beforehand that a load of firewood would cost her a handful of grain. 

I actually wanted one grain that could fill the hand. If she cannot understand this much, she has no right to put up that hoarding in front of her house.” 

Ramani was outwitted by the firewood vendor and the verdict was given in favor of the vendor. Ramani was ordered to pay him one thousand gold coins and she also had to take down the hoarding from her wall. 

That witty vendor was none other than Tenali Raman. He was aware of the situation in that district and Ramani’s arrogance and pride and had thus taken disguise as a firewood vendor to teach her a lesson

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Moral of the story: Arrogance and Pride are bad attributes

17) The Thirsty Crow’s – Short Story with Moral

It was a hot summer’s day. A thirsty crow flew into a village searching for water. The crow had nearly covered the whole village but there was no sign of water. After a long time, he came across a farm. Under one of the trees on the farm was a pitcher of water. 

Happy that he found some water finally, he swooped down to the tree and then down to the ground. When he looked inside the pitcher, there was very little amount of water left. 

The crow put his beak inside the pitcher but could not reach the water. The water level was too low, and the narrow opening did not allow his neck from going all the way down. 

He tried to push the vessel down to let the water out, but it was too heavy. The crow was very disappointed. He was really thirsty and needed a drink of water badly. He could have given up and flown to another farm, looking for water. But he didn’t. 

He didn’t give up. Instead, he looked around and thought, “What else can I do?” He saw that there were a lot of pebbles on the farm. 

Suddenly, he had a brilliant idea! He collected a few pebbles and dipped them into the pot. After this, As he added more and more stones, the water level came up to the brim. The crow drank the water and went on happily.

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Moral of the story: Where there is a will there is a way.

18) The Foolish Thief (Akbar Birbal’s Moral Stories)

Once upon a time, a rich merchant was robbed in King Akbar’s kingdom. The grief-stricken merchant went to the court in search of justice. 

Akbar asked Birbal to help the merchant find the robber. The merchant told Birbal that he was suspicious that the thief might be one of his servants. 

On getting the hint from the merchant, Birbal summoned all the servants and told them to stand in a straight line. He then asked everyone about the robbery. 

As expected, everyone denied doing it. Birbal then handed over one stick of the same length, to each one of them. While dispersing, Birbal said, “By tomorrow, the robber’s stick will increase by two inches”. 

The next day when Birbal called everyone and checked their sticks, one of the servant’s sticks was short by two inches. Without wasting any time, Birbal declared that this servant was the thief. 

On being asked by the merchant about the mystery of finding the real thief, Birbal said, “It was simple: the thief had cut his stick by two inches, fearing that it would increase in size”.

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Moral of the story: Truth always prevails.

19) The crab and the Stork’s -Short Story with Great Moral for Kids

Once upon a time, there lived a stork who used to pick fish from the pond beside him and eat them. 

However, as he grew older, he found it difficult to catch a single fish. In order to feed himself, he thought of a plan. 

He cunningly told all the animals of the pond including the fishes, frogs, and crabs that some men were trying to grow plants and crops in this pond due to which no life will be possible here. 

He also told them how sad he felt about this and that he will miss them all. The fish was sad and asked the stork to help them. 

The stork, feeling happy inside told them about another big pond and promised to take all of them over there. However, he told them, “As I am old, I can take only a few of you at one go.” The stork would take the fishes to barren land, kill them, and eat them up. Every time he was hungry, he would take a few of them to the rock and eat them. 

There lived a crab in the pond, who wanted to go to the bigger pond too. 

The stork was also bored eating fish all the time so for a change agreed to take the crab. On the way, the crab asked the stork, “Where is the big pond?” The stork laughed and pointed to the rock, which was filled with fish bones. 

The crab realized that the stork would kill him, he reacted very quickly and thought of a brilliant plan to save himself. He caught the stork’s neck and did not let it go until the stork died.

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Moral of the story: Always have a presence of mind and act fast when you sense danger.

20) The Gold touch – A Great short story for Kids

In ancient Greek, there was a king named Midas. He had a lot of gold and was a very happy man. He also had a beautiful daughter. 

Although Midas was crazy about his gold, he loved his daughter more than anything else. One day, Dionysus and his companion – a satyr named Silenus were passed by Midas’s rose garden. 

Silenus was not feeling well so he decided to take some rest there. Midas saw this and allowed him as believed that Satyrs bring good luck and so he let the satyr rest in his kingdom until he felt better, against the wishes of his wife and daughter. 

Silenus was a friend of Dionysus, the god of wine and celebration. When he learned that Midas showed kindness toward his friend, Dionysus decides to reward the king. 

When asked to wish for something, Midas says “I wish everything I touch turns to gold”. Although Dionysus knew it was not a great idea, he granted Midas his wish. Midas was very happy that his wish came true and went around touching random things in the garden and his palace and turned them all into gold. 

He touched an apple, and it turned into a shiny gold apple. His subjects were astounded but they were also happy to see so much gold in the palace. 

In his happiness, Midas went and hugged his daughter, and before he realized it, he had already turned her into a lifeless, golden statue! Panicked, Midas ran back to the garden and called for Dionysus. 

He begged God to take away his power and save his daughter. Dionysus being a god, felt pity for Midas and gave him a solution to change everything back to how it was before the wish. Midas learned his lesson and lived the rest of his life contended with what he had.

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Moral of the story: Greed is not something that gives you happiness and content in life.

21) Moral Stories of Akbar and Birbal – “Birbal The Just”

Once upon a time, there was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. 

To amuse himself and in order to do something exciting he took a great breath and sang out, “Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep.”

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces. “Don’t shout and cry – wolf, shepherd boy” said the villagers, “when there’s no wolf”. 

They went grumbling back down the hill. The villagers felt angry but overlooked the situation as just a prank. Later, the boy sang out again, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep” To his surprise, all the villagers once again came running to help the boy. 

When the villagers saw that there is actually no wolf and it was all a prank, they sternly said, “Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don’t cry – wolf when there is NO wolf.” 

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more. 

Later, to his immediate surprise, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, “Wolf! Wolf”, But the villagers thought that the boy was trying to prank them again and didn’t go to help the boy this time. 

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn’t returned to the village with their sheep. 

They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping. “There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, Wolf, Wolf ! Why didn’t you come?”. 

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village. “We’ll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning,” he said, putting his arm around the youth, “Nobody believes a liar…even when he is telling the truth!” 

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Moral of the story: Lie does not prevail.

22) The story behind Ravana’s 10 heads – The ultimate short story

Ravana was a devout follower of Lord Shiva. After attaining his education, Ravana started meditating and went into a deep penance state to please Lord Shiva. 

Ravana even used to chop off his head in order to appease Lord Shiva. Each time he chopped off his head, it grew back, thereby enabling him to continue his penance. 

This austerity and ultimate devotion of Ravana pleased Shiva, and he granted him ten heads. And thus, he became one of the most powerful beings on earth. The ten heads of Ravana indicate the four Vegas and six shastras that Ravana mastered. 

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Moral of the story: Devotion and dedication can overcome anything.

23) Best Short Story with Moral- The tall cunning boy

This is the 20th short story in our Moral Stories collection. Two little boys were playing together. One of them saw a nut on the ground. Before he could pick it the other boy took it. 

The first boy demanded, “Give me the nut. It”s mine. I saw it first”. The other boy replied in disgust, “It’s mine. I took it first”. This led to a quarrel between these two little boys. Just then a tall boy who was passing by saw them quarreling and decided to do something. 

Upon seeing the quarrel between the boys, he said, “Give me the nut and I’ll settle your quarrel.” He split the nut into two parts. After taking out the fruit seed, he gave one half-shell to one boy and the other half-shell to the other. He cunningly put the fruit seed into his mouth and said, “This is for settling your quarrel”.

Moral of the Story: When two people quarrel someone else gains.

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