Kids' story library for cartoon videos
Classic public-domain fables and folk tales, retold as narrated cartoon video scripts — Aesop, Panchatantra and more — with characters, scene prompts and the moral.
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Aesop's Fables
- How can I make a gentle cartoon video of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
In the Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg the fable is titled “The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf”.
- How do I make a cartoon video of The Crow and the Fox?
“The Fox and the Crow” is in Aesop's Fables trans. V. S. Vernon Jones and The Aesop for Children, both public domain on Project Gutenberg.
- How do I make a cartoon video of The Tortoise and the Hare?
The fable appears as “The Hare and the Tortoise” in the public-domain Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg.
- How do you make a cartoon video of The Thirsty Crow story?
The tale is Aesop's “The Crow and the Pitcher”, in the public-domain Vernon Jones translation on Project Gutenberg.
- How do you make a kids video of The Ant and the Grasshopper?
The Vernon Jones translation on Project Gutenberg titles it “The Grasshopper and the Ants”; The Aesop for Children calls it “The Ants and the Grasshopper”.
- How do you make The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse as a cartoon?
The fable is in Aesop's Fables translated by V. S. Vernon Jones and in The Aesop for Children, both public domain on Project Gutenberg.
- How to make a cartoon video of The North Wind and the Sun
“The North Wind and the Sun” is in the public-domain Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg.
- How to make a cartoon video of The Wind and the Reed
In the Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg the fable is titled “The Oak and the Reeds”.
- How to make a kids cartoon of The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
The fable is in Aesop's Fables translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, public domain on Project Gutenberg.
- How to make The Fox and the Grapes into a short cartoon story
“The Fox and the Grapes” is in the public-domain Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg.
- How to make the greedy dog and his reflection story as a cartoon
The Vernon Jones translation of Aesop on Project Gutenberg titles this fable “The Dog and the Shadow”; The Aesop for Children calls it “The Dog and His Reflection”.
- How to make The Lion and the Mouse into a kids cartoon video
“The Lion and the Mouse” is in Aesop's Fables translated by V. S. Vernon Jones (1912), public domain on Project Gutenberg.
- How to make The Milkmaid and Her Pail into a cartoon story video
“The Milkmaid and Her Pail” is in Aesop's Fables trans. V. S. Vernon Jones and in The Aesop for Children, both public domain on Project Gutenberg.
Panchatantra
- How can I make a gentle kids video of The Loyal Mongoose?
“The Loyal Mungoose” is in Book V, “Ill-considered Action”, of Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation on Wikisource.
- How do I make a cartoon video of The Blue Jackal story?
“The Blue Jackal” is in Book I of Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation, on Wikisource.
- How do I make a kids video of The Mice That Ate Iron?
“The Mice That Ate Iron” is in Book I of Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation, on Wikisource.
- How do you make The Elephants and the Mice into a kids video?
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells this tale in Book II as “The Mice That Set Elephants Free”, on Wikisource.
- How do you make The Monkey and the Crocodile into a cartoon video?
The tale opens Book IV of the Panchatantra, “Loss of Gains”, in Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 translation on Wikisource.
- How do you make The Monkey and the Wedge into a kids cartoon?
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells this as “The Wedge-Pulling Monkey”, the first story inside Book I, on Wikisource.
- How to make a kids cartoon of The Heron and the Crab
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells this tale in Book I as “The Heron That Liked Crab-Meat”, on Wikisource.
- How to make The Brahmin and the Goat into a funny kids cartoon
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells this tale in Book III as “The Brahman's Goat”, on Wikisource.
- How to make The Clever Rabbit and the Lion as a kids cartoon
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 translation of the Panchatantra on Wikisource tells this tale as “Numskull and the Rabbit”, in Book I.
- How to make The Crows and the Serpent into a cartoon for kids
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells it in Book I as “How the Crow-Hen Killed the Black Snake”, on Wikisource.
- How to make The Lion and the Woodcutter into a kids story video
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells it in Book I as “The Lion and the Carpenter”, about a carpenter who cuts logs in the forest.
- How to make The Talkative Tortoise into a kids cartoon video
Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 Panchatantra translation tells this tale in Book I as “Shell-Neck, Slim, and Grim”, with two ganders carrying the turtle.