Cuento de Blancanieves en inglés para niños

Once upon a time, a king and a queen had a baby daughter, and when she saw her black hair, snowy
white skin and red red lips she decided to call her Snow White. Snow White grew up to be a pretty
child, but sadly, after a few years, her mother died and her father married again. The new queen,
Snow White's stepmother, was a beautiful woman too, but she was very vain. More than anything
else she wanted to be certain that she was the most beautiful woman in the world.
She had a magic mirror, and she used to look at herself in it each clay and say:
-Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?
And the mirror would always reply,
-You, oh Queen, are the fairest one of all.
The queen would smile when she heard this for she knew the mirror never failed to speak the truth.
The years passed. Each year Snow White grew prettier and prettier, until one day, her stepmother
looked in the magic mirror and said,
-Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?
-You, oh Queen, are fair, but Snow White is fairer than you now.
The queen was angry and jealous. In a terrible rage she decided that Snow White should be killed.
She called for a hunter and told him to take Snow White far into the forest and to kill her there. In
order to prove that Snow White was indeed dead, she commanded him to cut out Snow White´s
heart and bring it back to her.
The hunter was very sad, because he loved Snow White very much, but he knew he must obey his
orders. He took her deep into the forest and, as he drew his knife, but he couldn't kill her. He told her
never to come back to the castle, then he killed a young deer and cut out its heart and took this to
the queen, pretending it was Snow White's heart.
Poor Snow White was tired, lonely and hungry in the forest. She wandered through the trees, until
she came to a clearing and found a little house. She opened it and went inside. There she saw a room
with a long table laid with seven places with food, and she ate a little from each one. Beyond the
table were seven little beds. She tried out some of them, and when she found one that was
comfortable, she fell into a deep sleep, for she was exhausted by her long journey through the forest.
The cottage was the home of seven dwarfs. All day long they worked in a nearby mine digging
diamonds from deep inside the mountain. When they returned home that evening, they were
amazed to see that someone had been into their cottage and had taken some food and drink from
each place at their table. They were also surprised to find their beds disturbed, until one dwarf called
out that he had found a lovely girl asleep on his bed.
The next morning Snow White awoke and met the dwarfs, and she told them her story. When she
explained how she now had no home, the dwarfs immediately asked her whether she would like to
stay with them.
Back at the palace the queen welcomed the hunter when he returned with the deer´s heart. She was
happy that now she was once more the most beautiful woman in the world. As soon as she was alone,
she looked n her magic mirror and said, confidently,
-Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?
To her horror, the mirror replied,
-You, oh Queen, are fair, ´tis true, But Snow White is fairer still than you.
The queen trembled with anger as she realized that the hunter had tricked her. She decided that she
would now find Snow White and kill her herself. The queen disguised herself as an old pedlar woman
with a basket of apples, and one of them was poisoned. When she knocked at the cottage door, the
queen offered Snow White an apple as a present. Snow White stretched out her hand for the apple
and also took a bite. At once Snow White was affected by the poison and fell down as though dead.
That evening when the dwarfs returned they were quite unable to revive her. They watched over her
through the night, but when morning came she still lay without any sign of life, and they decided she
must be dead. Weeping bitterly, they laid herein a coffin and placed a glass lid over the top so that
all could admire her beauty, even though she was dead. Then they carried the coffin to the top of a
hill where they took turns to stand guard.
Not long after this a prince came riding through the forest and came to the hill where Snow White
lay in her glass-topped coffin. She looked so beautiful that he loved her at once and he asked the
dwarfs if he could kiss her. As the prince kissed Snow White gently, he moved her head. The piece of
poisoned apple fell from her lips. Slowly she came back to life. Snow White saw the handsome prince
kneeling on the ground beside her, and fell in love with him straight away.
Then the queen far away in the palace heard from the mirror,
-You, oh Oueen, are fair, tis true, But Snow White is fairer still than you.
She was furious that Snow White had escaped death once more. And now the king discovered what
mischief she had been up to, and banished her from his land. No one ever saw her or her mirror again.
As for Snow White, she said farewell to her kind friends the dwarfs, and rode away on the back of the
prince's horse. At his castle they were married and they both lived happily forever afterwards.

Alice in Wonderland. Cuento para niños

It was a warm summer day and Alice was getting bored sitting beside her sister, who had her nose
buried in a book. Suddenly, a little White Rabbit with pink eyes ran in front of her shouting:
-"On dear, oh dear, I´m late."
The Rabbit pulled a watch out of his pocket to check the time. He shook his head, then disappeared
down a rabbit´s hole.
-"I must find out why he´s in such a hurry !" cried Alice.
Filled with curiosity, she ran to the rabbit´s hole and peeped through the entrance. The hole dropped
suddenly and Alice fell.
-"When will I ever reach the bottom of this dreadful hole?" she shouted, while falling helplessly
downwards.
Finally she landed in a long, narrow hallway with doors of many sizes.
On a three- legged table, Alice found a tiny gold key and a green bottle that said "DRINK ME".
-"This key must fit one of the doors," she said. "It´s the one behind the table," she cried, "but I´m too
big to fit through such a little door. May be the potion in that bottle will help me," she decided.
And she drank it. Alice began to shrink until she was no bigger than a doll. She opened the door and
quickly ran through it.
-"What a splendid garden !" -she exclaimed.- "Why, I´m no bigger than the insects that crawl on these
flowers."
But the excitement soon wore off. Alice grew bored with her tiny size.
-"I want to be big again," she shouted.
Her shouts startled the White Rabbit, who ran past her again. Mistaking her for his maid, he ordered,
"Go to my cottage and fetch my gloves and fan."
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Alice was confused by the Rabbit´s behaviour.
-"May be I´ll find something at the cottage to help me," she said hopefully.
A piece of chocolate cake was kept on a table by the doorway. Next to the cake was a note that read
"EAT ME".
-"I´m so hungry," Alice said as she ate the cake. "I feel strange. Oh no ! I´ve grown larger than this
house !" she cried.
-"Get out of my way ! You´re blocking thedoor !" shouted the White Rabbit.
Alice managed to pick up his fan. Immediately, she began to shrink. -
"Oh, I´ll never get back to the right size," Alice cried.
She went looking for help. Soon, she saw a green caterpillar dressed in a pink jacket. He was sitting
on the top of a large mushroom, smoking a bubble pipe.
-"One side makes you big, the other side makes you small," he said to Alice before slithering away.
-"One side of what?" Alice called after him.
-"The mushroom, silly," he answered.
Alice ate a piece of the mushroom.-
"Thank goodness, I´m growing !" she cried, "But which way do I go?"
-"That path leads to the Mad Hatter. The other way leads to Lae March Hare," said a voice.
Alice turned to find a smiling Cheshire Cat in a tree. "I´ll see you later at the Queen´s croquet game,"
he said before disappearing.
Alice walked down a path:
-"How lovely ! A tea party," she thought.
-"There´s no room for you !" shouted the Mad Hatter, "You may stay if you answer my riddle."
Alice smiled. She loved riddles. After several riddles, Alice became confused.
-"Every time I answer, you ask a question," she told the Mad Hatter.
-"We don´t know any answers," he giggled.
-"This is a waste of time," scolded Alice.
The others ignored her. They were trying to wake the Dormouse.
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Alice continued her walk. She found herself in the middle of a field where the Queen of Hearts was
playing croquet. Her guards and gardeners were shaped like cards. One gardener had planted white
roses by mistake and then painted them red
-"Off with their heads !" shrieked the Queen. "I hate white roses !" "Have you ever played croquet?"
the Queen asked Alice.
"Yes," Alice timidly answered. "But I´ve never used a flamingo or a hedgehog."
-"Play with me !" ordered the Queen."And let me win or I´ll have your head !"
Alice tried her best to play we,l, but she had trouble with her flamingo.
-"Off with her head !" cried the Queen.
Just then a trumpet sounded at the distance calling court to session. Everyone rushed into the
courtroom.
-"Court is now in session," announced the White Rabbit, "Will Alice please come to the stand?"
Alice took the stand and looked at the jury box, where the March Hare and the Mad Hatter were
making noise. The Dormouse slept and the Cheshire Cat smiled at her.
-"What´s going on?" asked Alice.
-"You are guilty of stealing the delicious heart-shaped tarts !" accused the Queen, "And now you must
be punished. Off with her head Off with her head!" yelled the Queen.
-"How silly," replied Alice. "I did not have the slightest idea what you were talking about ! I was only
playing croquet."
Alice felt someone touch her shoulder
-"Wake up. You´ve been sleeping for too long," said her sister softly.
-"I had a strange dream," said Alice.
She told her sister about the White Rabbit, the mad tea party, the Queen of Hearts and the trial. But
her sister wasn´t paying attention.
-"You´re reading again," mumbled Alice. As she stretched, Alice saw a little White Rabbit with pink
eyes scurry behind a tree.