Die Wassernixe

Read this tale aloud, or read along with your little one. Sentences are short and the words are simple.

Once there was a boy. He lived near the water. He met a water nixie.

She had a baby. The baby cried. The boy said: the baby is cold.

The nixie said: come in. The boy went in. The nixie said: no.

The baby cried. The boy said: I will bring a fire. The nixie said: no.

The boy went. The nixie said: come tomorrow. The boy went.

She said: do not say three. The boy said: three. The nixie took him.

The boy was in the water. He came up. He was a fish.

He jumped on a fire. He was a boy again. He went home.

The nixie was gone.