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Easy English fairy tales

Classic fairy tales adapted for English learners. Grimm, Andersen and Perrault retold in simple A2 English, each with a short quiz and tap-to-save vocabulary. You often already know the story, which makes the English easy to follow. No sign-up.

Classic fairy tales, easiest first

Short A2 retellings, a few minutes each, with a quiz. Tap a book to read.

Fairy tales are perfect for A2 reading

You know the story

When you already know what happens, you can guess new words from the story, so the English feels much easier.

A short quiz

A few quick questions after each tale so you check that you really understood it.

Tap-to-save vocabulary

Tap any word to see its meaning and add it to your personal vocabulary list.

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Build an English reading habit

Save the words you tap, track the tales you finish, and follow a gentle 30-day plan from your first short story to longer classics. Free, and it keeps your progress across devices.

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This level · A1

Finished this shelf?

You do not have to move up to keep going. These shelves are the same difficulty and share no texts with this one, so there is nothing here you have already read.

About 36,000 words of reading at this level is where words start repeating often enough to stick. That is a floor rather than a limit: its 4 shelves hold 55,749, and reading all of them is a perfectly good idea.

The rung above · A1–A2

First short stories: stories with an author behind them, a different writer every time. It is open whenever you are ready.

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