Part I Fairy Tales to Tell Your Kids Before Bed in Text Version: Aso's Red Dress

Aso was a little girl with big eyes and a twisted braid. She had deft hands, which she used to string hawthorn berries every afternoon after school.

Aso has a big bamboo basket at home, in which there are many red hawthorn berries. By stringing the berries on thin bamboo sticks and dipping them in sugar syrup, they could make many sweet and sour candy canes.

But what's the point of making so many sugarplums? Oh, it turns out that Aso's mom sells sugarplums. She sells them every day at the street stalls, and they are all strung up by Aso the night before.

But this day, Aso wear sugarplums, but how can not concentrate on the spirit. A string of five hawthorn berries, but she sometimes strung into four, sometimes strung into six, the brain, all Lili that beautiful dress.

Lili is Aso's deskmate. Tomorrow June 1 Children's Day, the teacher arranged for Aso and Lili to perform a dance, rehearsed many times, Aso and Lili are already very familiar with the dance. But today, Lili came to the dance rehearsal wearing a beautiful white dress, which she said her mother had specially bought for her to wear for the show.

But Aso doesn't have a pretty dress, she only has a gray cotton dress, which is very old and worn out, and if she wears it to the show, her classmates might laugh at her. Aso wants to ask her mother for a dress, but she knows that her mother will have to sell a lot of candy canes to buy a beautiful dress.

Should she ask her mom for a dress? Aso asked herself over and over again.

How about this! Count the number of hawthorn berries in the basket, and if it's an odd number, ask her for a dress, and if it's an even number, put on a show in her gray dress.

One, two, three, four ...... Aso counted and counted, and finally counted the number of fruits - exactly 199, an odd number! Then, when mom comes back, let her buy herself a skirt. But, but ...... mom makes sugarplums every day, and her hands are getting rougher and rougher, so maybe mom needs a pair of gloves even more. Also, mom's lunch every day at noon is a steamed bun, if you don't buy a skirt, maybe mom can buy a few buns to relieve her cravings ......

Aso hesitated, and finally decided to wear her gray skirt to the show.

So she folded her gray skirt neatly, put it on the end of her bed, and lay down to sleep.

That night, Aso had a dream that she danced and danced in a beautiful red dress, bright red, the color of hawthorn berries.

The next morning when Aso woke up, she really found a beautiful red dress, exactly the same as the one she wore in her dream, except that there were five more hawthorn berry-shaped buttons on the dress. She couldn't help but jump up. Pulling the red dress and comparing it in front of the mirror, Aso saw her mom standing behind her with bloodshot eyes.

Aso put on her beautiful red dress and went to school. When it was her turn to perform, she danced in the beautiful red dress, and when she twirled, the whole dress looked like a blooming red peony. The students all applauded for Aso, because Aso in the red dress danced so well!

After school, Aso went home to continue stringing hawthorn berries. But this time, she would not apply the wrong number, each string is five. How is it that this time she remembers so accurately? Because Aso knew that last night, under the light, her mother carefully sewed five hawthorn-shaped buttons on her red dress.

Part II Fairy Tales to Tell Your Children Before Bedtime Text Version: Bebe, the Honest Little Fish

Once upon a time, there was a little fish whose name was Bebe. He had a lot of friends, but one day, he suddenly felt bored and wanted to jump outside.

But it couldn't jump high enough, so it went to Granny Carp, who had a magic spell that helped it jump high.

In a place full of water plants, Pui Pui went into a hole and found Granny Carp in the hole.

Pépère explained why he was there, and Granny Carp wanted to test him. So she said, "I'll give you a seed, you plant it in the ground, and in a month's time you come with the prettiest flower you've ever planted." Bebe nodded and then took the seed and left.

Bebe put the seed in a pot and watered and fertilized it every day ...... The days went by and Bebe's seed had not germinated.

This can be Beibei anxious, the provisions of the month time is up, Beibei had to hold the empty flower pot to the Grandma Carp's cave.

What confused Bebe was that Grandma Carp was pleasantly surprised.

Granny Carp asked, "Where are your flowers? Why are you holding an empty flowerpot?"

BeiBei told Granny Carp about the flower planting.

Grandmother Carp smiled and said, "I gave you boiled seeds, how can they germinate? Bei Bei you are really an honest child, I give you a ring, you go to the human world to see after the ring back to me. Otherwise you will turn into a bubble."

In this way, Bebe went around the earth and immediately went back to give the ring back to Granny Carp.

Part III Fairy Tales to Tell Your Children Before Bedtime Text Version: The Little Gecko Borrows His Tail

One day, the little gecko was catching mosquitoes in the corner, and a snake bit his tail.

The little gecko panicked and fled, and as soon as he made an effort, his tail broke. How ugly it is to have no tail! The little gecko was very sad.

The little gecko sadly climbed to the eaves, he saw the swallows flying in the air with their tails, eyes bright: "I can borrow a tail ah!"

So the little gecko said to the swallow, "Auntie Swallow, can you lend me your tail?" The swallow said, "No, when I fly, I need to use my tail to control the direction." The little gecko said goodbye to the swallow and decided to go on to borrow his tail.

As the little gecko climbed down the wall, he saw a little mouse wagging its tail and climbing up the wall.

The little gecko said, "Brother mouse, will you lend me your tail?" The mouse said, "No, I need my tail to help me climb." The mouse said, "No, I need my tail to help me crawl." The mouse said, "Good-bye," and continued to crawl away.

The little gecko just climbed to the edge of the river, and saw a bunch of splashes on the surface of the river, he looked closer, it turned out to be a small fish wagging its tail in the river.

The little gecko said, "Sister fish, your tail lent me okay?" The little fish said, "I'm sorry, I have to use my tail to pluck water." The little gecko was not discouraged at all, and crawled forward again.

The little gecko said, "Mr. Woodpecker, can you lend me your tail?" The woodpecker said, "No, you see, I have to use the tail to support the body." The little gecko nodded and continued to crawl forward.

The little gecko climbed and climbed, climbed to the grass. The horse was running on the grass, and his tail was up, and he was so happy!

The little gecko rushed to a horse that was eating grass and said, "Brother horse, your tail lend me okay?" The horse said, "No ah, when I run, to use the tail to maintain balance; when I stop, to use the tail to drive away mosquitoes and flies." The little gecko couldn't borrow his tail, and he was so tired and sad that he wanted to go home.

The little gecko crawled silently toward his home, thinking as he did so, "Everyone's tails are so useful, what will I do if I can't borrow a tail?"

As soon as he got home, the little gecko got into his mother's arms and told her about borrowing a tail.

Mom laughed and said, "Silly boy, you turn around and look." The little gecko turned around and looked and exclaimed happily, "I've grown a new tail! My tail is the best!"

Part IV Fairy Tales to Tell Your Children Before Bedtime Text Version: Bats Win

Bats like to live in colonies, hiding in dark stone caves during the day to rest, and coming out at night to look for food. Many animals in the forest rarely see them.

When summer came, swarms of mosquitoes flew around the forest at night, buzzing and interfering with the animals' daily lives. The Lion King ordered, "Whoever can make the mosquitoes decrease significantly within three days will be awarded the title of 'Champion of Mosquito Extermination'."

The swallow family was the first to respond. They all nested out, searching in the trees to kill, flying in the air to chase and catch, to use all their skills. After three days, there are still many mosquitoes at night.

Dragonfly also led the family members to fly. They look around, left and right capture, go all out to capture mosquitoes. Three days passed, but did not make the mosquitoes reduce.

In the face of swarms of mosquitoes, everyone felt helpless. Bison proposed, "I go to ask the bats living in the stone cave, perhaps they can eliminate the mosquitoes flying at night."

The peacock listened and said, "Invite those black and odd-looking bats to exterminate the mosquitoes, can they do it?"

The antelope said, "Bats are highly myopic, can they see mosquitoes at night?"

The bison said: "You two do not jump to conclusions, I go to the bats to try not to know!"

The Lion King said, "Bison, go get the bat!"