Von dem Machandelboom

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

Once there was a little boy. His mother was cruel. She killed him.

She put him under the juniper tree. The father came home. He missed his son.

He sat under the tree. A bird came. It sang.

The bird flew to a goldsmith. It got a gold chain. It flew to a shoemaker.

It got red shoes. It flew to the millers. It got a millstone.

It sang the song. The mother heard. She went to see.

The bird dropped the millstone. She was under it. She was gone.

The father came with the boy. The bird was on the tree. It flew away.

They were happy.