Eisenhans

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

Once there was a wild man. He had iron hair. He was called Iron Hans.

A king had a baby. The wild man wanted the baby. The king said: take him.

The wild man took the baby. He was kind. The baby grew up.

He did not know the wild man. The wild man wanted him back. The boy went home.

He worked. He did not tell. The king lost his ball.

The boy got it back. The wild man was kind. The boy went home.

The wild man said: go back. The boy did. He became a knight.

He came to the king. The king was his father. The wild man came.

He was free. The boy lived happily ever after.