Stories and Sentences 1:

English Illustrated Edition

{Poviedky a vety 1}

{Ilustrované vydanie v angličtine}

17 Stories for Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and Up

Chosen Stories 1

Sentences 1700

Robert Hodosi

Andrew Lang

Imprint

Title: Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition

Subtitle: 17 Stories for Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and Up

Serial: Stories and Sentences: English Illustrated Edition

Authors: Robert Hodosi, Andrew Lang

Edited and Compiled by: Andrew Lang (*1844, +1912)

Original Publication Years of Stories: 1889–1910

Selection Compiled, Translated, and Adapted by: Róbert Hodoši

Language Editing: Róbert Hodoši (*1975)

Published by: Robert Hodosi

First English Edition: 2025/September

Number of Pages: 160, Word Count: 28,000

Cover Design and Colourful Illustrations: Róbert Hodoši

Copyright © Robert Hodosi, 2025, Lovce, SK

Tiráž

Názov: Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition

(Poviedky a vety 1: Ilustrované vydanie v angličtine)

Podnadpis: 17 Stories for Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and Up

(17 poviedok pre vek od 3, 4, 5 a 6 rokov)

Séria: Stories and Sentences: English Illustrated Edition

Autori: Robert Hodosi, Andrew Lang

Editoval a zozbieral: Andrew Lang (*1844, +1912)

Roky pôvodného vydania poviedok: 1889-1910

Výber zostavil, preložil a spracoval: Robert Hodosi

Jazyková úprava: Róbert Hodoši (*1975)

Vydavateľstvo: Robert Hodosi

Prvé anglické vydanie: 2025/september

Počet strán: 160, Počet slov: 28 000

Tvorba obálky a farebných ilustrácií: Róbert Hodoši

Copyright © Robert Hodosi, 2025, Lovce, SK

Introduction

"Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition" is a delightful collection of 17 enchanting tales, carefully curated for young readers aged 3 to 6 and beyond. This vibrant anthology, enriched with colourful illustrations, brings together timeless fairy tales and fables from around the world, including beloved classics like "The Three Bears," "The Princess on the Pea," and "The Ugly Duckling," alongside lesser-known gems such as "The Two Frogs" and "Little Maia." Authored by storytellers such as Robert Hodosi, Andrew Lang, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm, these stories are crafted to spark imagination, impart valuable life lessons, and foster a love of reading.

Each tale is accompanied by a set of morals, offering young readers and their families opportunities to reflect on themes such as kindness, courage, perseverance, and the importance of honesty. With a total of 1700 sentences, the collection is designed to engage early readers while providing accessible language and engaging narratives suitable for shared reading moments. Whether exploring the adventures of clever animals, brave children, or magical beings, this book invites readers into a world of wonder, wisdom, and colourful storytelling that will captivate hearts and minds.

The numbering of sentences in each story in the English edition is identical in meaning to the numbering in the Slovak edition. The level of difficulty of English according to CEFR is A2.

Úvod

„Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition“ (Poviedky a vety 1: Ilustrovaná edícia v angličtine) je očarujúca zbierka 17 rozprávok, starostlivo vybraných pre mladých čitateľov vo veku od 3 do 6 rokov a starších. Táto živá antológia, obohatená o farebné ilustrácie, spája nadčasové rozprávky a bájky z celého sveta, vrátane obľúbených klasík ako „Tri medvede“, „Princezná na hrášku“ a „Škaredé káčatko“, spolu s menej známymi klenotmi ako „Dve žaby“ a „Malá Maja“. Autormi sú rozprávači ako Robert Hodosi, Andrew Lang, Hans Christian Andersen a bratia Grimmovci, a tieto príbehy sú vytvorené tak, aby podnietili fantáziu, odovzdali cenné životné lekcie a podporili lásku k čítaniu.

Každý príbeh je doplnený súborom morálnych ponaučení, ktoré ponúkajú mladým čitateľom a ich rodinám príležitosť zamyslieť sa nad témami ako láskavosť, odvaha, vytrvalosť a dôležitosť čestnosti. S celkovým počtom 1700 viet je zbierka navrhnutá tak, aby zaujala začínajúcich čitateľov, pričom ponúka prístupný jazyk a pútavé príbehy vhodné na spoločné čítanie. Či už preskúmavajú dobrodružstvá šikovných zvierat, odvážnych detí alebo magických bytostí, táto kniha pozýva čitateľov do sveta zázrakov, múdrosti a farebného rozprávania, ktoré očarí srdcia aj mysle.

Číslovanie viet v každej poviedke v anglickom vydaní je významovo totožné s číslovaním v slovenskom vydaní. Zložitosť angličtiny podľa CEFR je  úroveň A2.

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

(Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)

(an American physician, poet, essayist)

ISBN

PDF 978-80-975000-7-8

EAN 9788097500078

EPUB 978-80-975000-8-5

EAN 9788097500085

MOBI 978-80-975000-9-2

EAN 9788097500092

Table of Contents

Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition

{Poviedky a vety 1} {Ilustrované vydanie v angličtine}

17 Stories for Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and Up

Chosen Stories 1

Sentences 1700

Robert Hodosi  Andrew Lang

Imprint

Tiráž

Introduction

Úvod

ISBN

Table of Contents

1*/ The Three Bears

Morals

2*/ The Princess on the Pea

Morals

3*/ Mother Holle

Morals

4*/ The Little Red Riding Hood

Morals

5*/ The Frog and the Three Witches

Morals

6*/ The Hazelnut Child

Morals

7*/ The Two Frogs

Morals

8*/ The Jackal and the Well

Morals

9*/ The Adventures of the Jackal’s Younger Son

Morals

10*/ Rumpelstiltskin

Morals

11*/ The Brave Little Tailor

Morals

12*/ The Street Musicians

Morals

13*/ The Little Golden Riding Hood

Morals

14*/ Rapunzel

Morals

15*/ The Three Little Pigs

15-1, THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

15-2, THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

Morals

16*/ The Ugly Duckling

16-1, THE UGLY DUCKLING

16-2, THE UGLY DUCKLING

16-3, THE UGLY DUCKLING

Morals

17*/ Little Maia

17-1, LITTLE MAIA

17-2, LITTLE MAIA

17-3, LITTLE MAIA

Morals

THE END

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1*/ The Three Bears

Robert Southey, an English story, 104 sentences, for ages 3 and up

1. Once upon a time, three bears lived together.

2. They lived in their own house deep in the forest.

3. One of them was small - Little Bear, the medium-sized one was his mother - Mother Bear, and the largest was the oldest, the father - Father Bear.

4. Each of these bears had their own pot for porridge.

5. The small pot was for Little Bear.

6. The medium-sized pot was for Mother Bear.

7. And the largest pot was for the biggest, gigantic Father Bear.

8. Each of them also had their own chair to sit on.

9. The small chair was for Little Bear.

10. The medium-sized chair was for Mother Bear.

11. And the large chair was for the huge Father Bear.

12. Each of these bears had their own bed in which they slept.

13. The smallest Little Bear had the smallest bed.

14. Mother Bear had a medium-sized bed.

15. And Father Bear had the largest, huge bed.

16. One day, as soon as they made their porridge, they poured it into their pots.

17. Then they went for a walk in the forest so that the porridge could cool down and they wouldn’t burn their mouths with it so hot.

18. While the three bears were walking in the forest, a little old woman came to their house.

19. First, she peeked inside through the window, then through the keyhole.

20. Since she didn’t see anyone inside the house, she lifted the latch on the door and went in.

21. She certainly wasn’t a good, honest old woman.

22. Unfortunately, the door wasn’t locked because these three bears were good bears.

23. They never hurt anyone or attacked anyone.

24. And it never happened to them that someone would want to harm them.

25. So the old woman opened the door and went inside.

26. She was very pleased when she saw the porridge on the table.

27. If she had been a good little woman, she would have waited until the bears returned home.

28. And then they might have given her some of the porridge and invited her to have breakfast with them.

29. Because they were very good bears.

30. They had somewhat rough manners, but that’s quite expected for bears.

31. Despite everything known about bears, these were kind-hearted and hospitable.

32. However, this evil old woman was very rude.

33. She had shameless manners and helped herself as if she were at home.

34. First, she tasted Father Bear’s porridge.

35. It was too hot for her.

36. She cursed a lot into the groats and cinnamon.

37. Then she tasted Mother Bear’s porridge.

38. It was too cold.

39. She cursed even worse into the henhouse and the shed.

40. Finally, she tasted the porridge from the smallest pot.

41. It was neither cold nor hot.

42. It was just right.

43. The porridge tasted so good to her that she ate everything that Little Bear was supposed to have for breakfast.

44. But the rude old woman still had to grumble impolitely because she wasn’t full.

45. “What a tiny, pathetic thing. Such good porridge, and yet such a small pot.”

46. Then she wanted to sit down.

47. She first tried the large chair of the huge Father Bear.

48. But it was too hard for her.

49. So she sat on the medium-sized chair meant for Mother Bear.

50. It was too soft for her.

51. Finally, she settled in Little Bear’s smallest chair.

52. However, under her weight, the chair broke, and she ended up on the floor.

53. The rude old woman gave a rude smirk and started maliciously cursing everyone she could think of.

54. After a while, when she calmed down a bit, she went upstairs where the bears had their bedroom, where they slept.

55. First, she lay in Father Bear’s large bed.

56. But it seemed too high for her.

57. So she lay in Mother Bear’s bed.

58. That one still seemed too high for her.

59. Finally, she came to Little Bear’s bed.

60. She stretched out comfortably in it; it was just right.

61. She covered herself and soon fell asleep contentedly.

62. At that time, the three bears thought their porridge should be cool enough by now.

63. So they returned home for breakfast.

64. The little old woman left a spoon stuck in Father Bear’s porridge.

65. The huge Father Bear furrowed his brows and, with a rough, gruff voice, angrily shouted:

66. “Someone tasted my porridge!”

67. When Mother Bear turned around, she noticed a spoon in her porridge too, and someone had eaten from it.

68. She shouted:

69. “Someone tasted my porridge too!”

70. They were only wooden spoons.

71. If they had been silver spoons, the old woman would surely have stolen them and put them in her pocket.

72. Then Little Bear spoke up.

73. He had a spoon in his porridge pot, but there wasn’t even a bit of porridge left.

74. He shouted:

75. “Someone ate my porridge and even ate it all!”

76. And Little Bear’s eyes glistened with tears.

77. Then the three bears said they had to search the whole house thoroughly.

78. They went upstairs to their bedroom.

79. Father Bear immediately noticed his pillow was crumpled and shouted in his rough, gruff voice:

80. “Someone lay in my bed!”

81. Mother Bear noticed her headrest was shifted.

82. She said:

83. “Someone lay in my bed too.”

84. And when Little Bear looked at his bed, he saw the headrest in place, the pillow in place on the headrest, but on the pillow, he saw an old, ugly, and dirty woman’s head sticking out from under the blanket.

85. And she had no business being there because it wasn’t her house, and the bears hadn’t invited her.

86. So Little Bear said in his frightened voice:

87. “Someone lay in my bed, and she’s still there.“

88. The old woman heard Father Bear’s rough and gruff voice in her sleep, but she was in a deep sleep.

89. So she couldn’t tell what Father Bear was saying.

90. It seemed to her that it was just the howling of the wind or the striking of thunder.

91. She also heard Mother Bear’s voice, but it seemed to her that she was only dreaming.

92. But when she heard the voice of the small, little Little Bear, it was so piercing that it would have woken even a half-dead dog from sleep.

93. It woke her up immediately, and she saw the three bears on one side of her bed.

94. She quickly jumped out of the other side of the bed and ran to the window.

95. It was open because whenever these bears got up, they opened the bedroom windows to have fresh air in the evening.

96. So the little old woman jumped out of the window and ran away as fast as her legs could carry her.

97. Whether she broke her neck on the way or was caught by a ranger on her way through the forest and put in a reformatory for vagrancy and stealing, no one knows.

98. But the three bears never met her again in their home or in the surrounding area where they lived.

99. The End

Morals

- Respect other people's property and privacy.

- Acting rudely or selfishly can lead to negative consequences.

- Kindness and hospitality are valuable traits, even in difficult situations.

- Taking what doesn’t belong to you is wrong and may cause harm.

- Learn from mistakes and avoid repeating bad behaviour.

2*/ The Princess on the Pea

Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish story, 41 sentences,

suitable for ages 4 and up

1. Long ago, there once lived a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she had to be a true princess.

2. So he travelled the world to find one like that.

3. He found many princesses, but he didn’t know how to tell if they were real princesses.

4. He found fault with each of them.

5. There was something about each of them that bothered him, indicating he hadn’t yet found a true princess.

6. So he returned home in a very bad mood because he had only wanted an actual princess for a wife.

7. One night, a great storm struck.

8. There was lightning and thunder.

9. The rain fell so heavily that you could only see a short distance.

10. The weather was downright frightening.

11. Suddenly, they heard someone knocking on the palace gate.

12. The old king went to open it.

13. A princess was standing at the gate.

14. She was soaked through from the rain.

15. The storm had drenched her to the bone.

16. Water ran down her hair and clothes into her shoes and out again.

17. As she stood there, she claimed to be a true princess.

18. “Well, we’ll soon find out!” thought the old queen, but she didn’t say anything.

19. She went into the bedroom.

20. She took off the bed sheets.

21. Then she placed a small pea at the bottom of the bed.

22. On top of it, she laid twenty mattresses and, on top of them, twenty quilted down blankets.

23. This was the bed in which the princess was to sleep.

24. The following day, they asked her how she had slept.

25. “Oh, very badly!” the princess said.

26. “I hardly managed to close my eyes all night!

27. I’m sure there was something hard in the bed.

28. I couldn’t sleep at all.

29. My body is covered in bruises.

30. It was a terrible night!”

31. Now they knew she was an actual princess because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty quilted down blankets.

32. No one else could be as sensitive as a true princess.

33. So the prince married her.

34. He now knew he had gotten an actual princess.

35. They put the pea in the Royal Museum.

36. And if no one has stolen it, it’s still there to this day.

37. And this is a true story.

38. The End

Morals

- True value and genuineness are revealed in details and sensitivity that others overlook.

- True quality shines through even in the smallest tests.

- Patience in seeking the right one brings reward.

Table of Contents

Stories and Sentences 1: English Illustrated Edition

{Poviedky a vety 1} {Ilustrované vydanie v angličtine}

17 Stories for Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and Up

Chosen Stories 1

Sentences 1700

Robert Hodosi Andrew Lang

Imprint

Tiráž

Introduction

Úvod

ISBN

Table of Contents

1*/ The Three Bears

Morals

2*/ The Princess on the Pea

Morals