Ririro.com - Kids Stories (6-10 Years)

Turkeys Turning The Tables is a funny short story told by a teasing papa to his daughter on Christmas morning. After a huge Thanksgiving feast, a delicate little girl is visited by the ghost of the prize gobbler, First Premium. He and his turkey family tie her in ribbons and put her on trial for the crime of dinner. She must defend people against turkeys, and the papa keeps insisting every word is true while his daughter keeps interrupting.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

"A Bird, came down the Walk" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a quiet garden moment into something suspenseful. A bird, unaware he is watched, tears apart an angle worm, sips dew from a blade of grass and steps aside for a passing beetle. Then the speaker offers a crumb, and the wary creature's frightened, bead-bright eyes meet hers. What follows is a flight described with startling, dreamlike grace.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

Summer Shower is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that follows a passing rainstorm from the first drop on an apple tree to the sparkling aftermath. Raindrops kiss the eaves, make the gables laugh, and hurry to join the brook on its way to the sea. The speaker wonders what necklaces pearls might make. Birds sing more jauntily, the sunshine tosses away his hat, and the East hangs out a single flag to close the festivities.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

"Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that pictures the heart as a hidden stream, where bashful flowers bloom and blushing birds stop to drink. No one sees it flowing, yet it feeds daily life. Then the seasons turn: spring floods threaten the bridges, and the parched heat of August tests the water. The speaker's gentle warning asks how long such a quiet source can last.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

Autumn by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that captures the turning of the season in a handful of vivid images. Mornings grow gentler, nuts darken, berries plump out, and the rose quietly leaves town. The maple drapes itself in a brighter scarf while the fields don scarlet gowns. Then the speaker adds a playful, personal twist: not wanting to seem old-fashioned, she decides to dress up too, pinning on a small trinket to join the season's show.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

Playmates by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that imagines a child making friends with an angel on a free afternoon. Dazzled by the new companion, the speaker forgets every school-mate and plays only with the heavenly visitor. Then the setting sun calls the angels home, and the child is left behind. Ordinary games of marbles now feel dreary beside the memory of playing Crown. It is a small, tender portrait of delight and loss.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree opens with a single raindrop and swells into a full summer shower. Emily Dickinson's poem follows the water from the roof to the eaves, where the gables seem to laugh, and out to the brook racing toward the sea. The speaker wonders whether the drops are pearls, then watches dust settle, birds sing louder, and sunshine toss aside his hat. Playful and bright, it turns weather into a festival.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

"A fuzzy fellow, without feet" is a playful Emily Dickinson poem that sets a riddle about a velvet-coated creature who runs without legs. It follows him through grass and branches, down onto passers-by, and into a silken winter hideaway. Then spring arrives with a surprising change. Dickinson keeps the creature's name hidden until the final stanza, so the poem feels like a whispered secret shared between the poet and the reader.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

"The Day All of Alkmaar Fought" drops readers into the 1573 siege of Alkmaar, where ten-year-old Griet is jolted awake by twenty cannons firing at once. As Spanish soldiers storm the breached city walls three times in a single day, every person in town — bakers, blacksmiths, mothers, and children — defends their home with whatever they can carry. Griet hauls baskets of rubble under cannon fire while her mother pours boiling limewater from the ramparts, and the fate of the city hangs on whether ordinary people can hold together under impossible pressure.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.

"Maarten and the Lost Letter" opens in September 1573 as Maarten van der Mey, a carpenter from Alkmaar, volunteers to smuggle a desperate message past a sixteen-thousand-strong Spanish army besieging his town. Armed with only a hollow jumping pole and his knowledge of the marshes, he slips through reed beds in the dark, freezes under the boots of sentries, and battles bureaucrats who value cattle over lives. When the crucial letters from the Prince of Orange are lost in a flooded marsh on the return journey, the mission seems finished — but fate has other plans.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-kids-stories-6-10-years--6564597/support.