Growing up in Greece, what is/was your favorite Children Story?

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Vergina

Here's my all time favorite children's story:
There were 2 good friends and supporters of each other. They both worked in their fields and tended their sheep together, as there were a lot of wolves ready to steal their sheep and eat them.
One day, they started a fight about something stupid,so stupid that they could not even remember what it was.
"Liar and thief!!" they called each other, along with other names (like "hater" and stuff like that).
They really got into a big fight, pulling each other's shirts and yelling names (all this while the wolves were getting closer to their sheep).
When they finally broke their fight and came to their senses what do they see? The wolves had already moved in and ate all their sheep.

What does this story teach us? I leave it up to you to tell :)

daskalitsa

Growing up I loved reading greek mythology and frutopia.
Lately, my favourite children's book is trigonopsaroulis (the little trianglefish) by Iliopoylos.

Zoi ((Ζωή))

When I was growing up, many years ago, there weren't many other options but hearing and reading about Cinderella and all those classical (Disney) stories.
Today my favorite child stories are two, and they are translated from English to Greek:
1. Debi Gliori, "I love you, no matter what happens".
2. Karl Ruehmann"The penguin that wanted to fly" (Filbert Flies).
There are many Greek writers of children books that really worth reading their books. There are also plenty of translated books from other languages, even Arabian. Everyone knows Gianni Rondari, A.de Saint Exupery for example.

The_last_Amazona

Happy Children's Book day!!

My favorite children's story was an Aesop's myth:
The fox wanted to steal some grapes from the grape vine to eat. But no matter how hard she tried, how high she jumped, how much she stretched, it was impossible. Those juicy grapes were too high for her to reach.

She even asked her friend, the big bad wolf to help her reach the grapes (well, not really her friend, she hated the bastard, but it was out of need to pretend being his friend, since he was so big and powerful).
The wolf tried and tried to steal the grapes for the fox but to no avail.
(Why the wolf tried to help her steal the grapes?Cause he knew she will help him later establish his wolf's nest nearby...so he could go on with his trafficking and illegal profiting business..errr...I mean catching the sheep and eating them).

Finally, with no luck and exhausted from the efforts, the fox turned around to the wolf and declared:
"Well, those grapes aren't any good anyway, I don't care to taste them anymore!"
And they both went home to their caves

Moral of the story (like every Aesop's fable):
"Osa de ftanei i alepou, ta kanei kremastaria"
("What the fox cannot reach makes them look worthless")

Macedonia is Greek

Your story is amazing little miss cutie !

Any story I make up will just be in the shadow of your story so I better stay silent.

When I was a kid I liked many stories and I can't pick one as my favorites but when I went in the first class of high school I was enchanted by the odyssey because the teacher who was teaching us the epic, was a magnificent woman. She really driven us in another world at that time.

TsGirl

Very very good! Made me laugh! Well done!

Vasiliki-Βασιλική

its really clever!!!
from now on this is my favourity children story!!!

Is that all there is?

Penelope Delta's: Maggas and other of her books,
from my father's Thiaplasi ton Pethon: The secret of the wax doll,
Hans Christian Andersen stories like the ugly duckling and "o Papakoukoulotis" (I would appreciate anyone who can tell me where to find this story of Papakoukoulotis by Andersen bros.),
All Mickey Mouse stories, I had a huge collection,
Lucky Look , Tin-tin, Mikri Loulou,
Aesop fables, Papadiamantis stories, Jules Verne stories, Little Red Riding Hood, The 12 Labors of Hercules, The Amazons
and of course The Little Prince: Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

Latest years the story by Eugene Trivizas of "The 3 Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig" http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0689505698/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Also wonderful the book above mentioned "No Matter What"
Debi Gliori and any by Bradley Trevor Greive http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/105-0939819-9392422?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Bradley+Trevor+Greive&x=13&y=20

Must add a favorite: Winnie-the-Pooh!
and I highly recommend Momo by M. Ende.

Totally Blunt

Erm... superman doesn't exist. I'm not sure you really would like to base your lesson on an imaginary character. People can take the wrong lesson, you know.

Anyway. As a child I used to read Aesop fables and I liked them.

Kiro

very funny! hohohohohoho hohohoho!

bodyguard

THIS IS A TRUE EVENT

IT WAS THE TAILS THAT MY TITAN GRANDFATHER SAID ABOUT THE WAR 2, WITH ITALY:
( PLAKA WITH ITALIANS POW)

GF: DO YOU HAVE CHOCOLATES?

IT: NO

GF:DO YOU KNOW TO SWIM? ( MPANIOU KSERS?)

IT: NO

GF: NOW YOU LL LEARN (THEY THROW THEM IN THE
PORT)

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