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Discover our Wonderful Spanish Stories for Kids!

Your language learning journey starts in the fabulous island of FabuLingua. Explorers come from here from far and wide to learn Spanish.

FabuLingua has many locations that open in sequence as you progress and read stories.

Tap one of the purple location pins and you’ll open up new worlds! In those new locations you’ll find characters eager to share their stories with you.

Tap a character to hear their story!

Our interactive stories for kids are culturally authentic, and sourced from authors and illustrators from over Latin America and Spain!

Why are Spanish Children’s Stories an Important Part of the Learning Process?

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When we teach through stories, learners are able to make use of context, as well as connect to the content on a deeper, more emotional level. The result is that retention is much higher than through traditional teaching techniques (like grammar drilling or rote memorization of vocabulary sets).

In addition, learning Spanish through interactive children’s stories suits a wider and more diverse set of learners - including visual, auditory, and even kinesthetic learners!

Our Interactive Short Stories for Kids in Spanish

FabuLingua’s stories are strategically located in locations across FabuLingua island. The locations contain characters that share stories when you tap them. The locations, numbered 1- 5, contain increasingly challenging stories so that as the child progresses through the game and learns more Spanish they will be met with bigger challenges to deepen their learning!

Kids can always go back to earlier locations and do more modes and games in the easier stories to prep them for the harder locations.

Scroll down this page to find descriptions and trailers of FabuLingua’s interactive Spanish stories for kids! You’ll find each character’s story beneath the location where they live.

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Welcome! Start your adventure at Tutorial Beach and learn how to play.

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Explorando FabuLingua

Zorri is your guide to FabuLingua! In this tutorial story he will introduce your child to our mobile game as they experience the Magical Translations!

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Dive into the watery playground where Rani and Sapi live.

Rani y Sapi 1

Mi familia

Beginner

Illustrated by Calladitos

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Welcome to the beloved series, ‘Rani y Sapi’, which follows the lives of a frog and a toad who are best friends. This is the first book in the series, where you’ll meet Rani and all his family!

Rani is excited to introduce each one of them to you! You’ll meet this loveable frog’s mom, his dad, his sister, brother, pet, aunt, uncle, grandparents and cousins! They are all very different, so as you come to know them you’ll also learn lots of opposites (like tall-short, old-young and big-small).

Like with all of our Spanish stories for kids, you’ll also have in-story games including counting games with flying paper airplanes and multiplying hearts, a game of fly swatting to help grandma make dinner, and a game of fish Whack-A-Mole with the cousins. You’ll notice that his uncle and aunt need to mind their manners, and that the baby frog can jump real high! Most importantly, you’ll find that there’s a lot of love in this family!

Picabel y las hadas

Nuestros colores

Advanced Beginner

Illustrated by Alejandro Trejo

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Are you ready for The Rainbow Fair? Each fairy is getting dressed in their favorite color to honor the rainbow. Drag the clothes onto the fairies and help them get dressed! Skirts, dresses, pants and shirts - it’s a full on fairy fashion show!

Illustrated by an artist who studied fashion design, in this story you’ll find a pretty stylish collection of female and male fairies wearing a wide variety of clothing - and that each fairy has their own iconic ‘look’. Which is your favorite outfit?

Picabel and her fairy friends is one of our most popular stories. Not only will the story help you learn all your colors and a wide range of articles of clothing, but as a bonus, when your child explores each fairy’s room, they’ll also learn other words for furnishings!

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Clase de arte

Beginner

Illustrated by Calladitos

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Learn your Spanish shapes and colors! Our favorite frog is back and excited for ART CLASS!! But Rani needs help. Can your child help him paint?🎨 🖌️

In this story, your child’s fingertips👆 are endowed with a In this next Spanish story for kids, your child’s fingertips👆 are endowed with a ✨magical capacity✨ to paint in different colors! So have them leap into the story, pull up their magic finger, and paint up a storm! (Part of the magic is that they won’t have to clean up!!😜)

If your child has been spending time in FabuLingua, they already know the first two books in the series, and know that ‘Rani la rana’ (Rani the frog) and ‘Sapi el sapo’ (Sapi the toad) are best buddies! In our newest interactive story for kids, these two friends are joined by their classmates (la tortuga🐢, los patitos 🦆 and la lagartija 🦎) for Art Class!

But all these young animals need help from your child!! They often can’t quite reach the shapes they’re trying to paint (have you ever seen a turtle struggling to paint a hexagon?)

Because the story switches between one and multiple animals painting, your child will also learn to conjugate the verb ‘escoger’ and ‘pintar’ (which mean ‘to choose’ and ‘to paint’) without really even knowing it. 🤫

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Discover the wondrous waterfalls where fish swim and fairies fly

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La granja del abuelo

Beginner

Illustrated by Terrell Powell

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Welcome to “La granja del abuelo” (Grandpa’s Farm), where you’ll find Grandpa has a pretty unusual collection of animals. In grandpa’s surreal world his goat sleeps standing up, his cow eats lying down, his cat loves birds, his bunny picks flowers and his dog dances the cha cha cha.

Come live a day in the life of Grandpa and his animals, from sunup to sun down. Count the colorful spots as you take them off the goat and the cat, make the cow chomp on flowers and then stand up, help the owls form an owl tower, and catch flowers that fall from the sky.

In this series of Spanish stories for kids, the artist, Terrell Powell, is inspired by the freshness and spontaneity of children's art. He uses wood and mixed media to create the colorful sculptures that pop off the page, capture your imagination and will make you smile. Come peek into the magical world of Grandpa's farm!⁠

El estanque de la abuela

Beginner

Illustrated by Terrell Powell

Written by Alejandra Jurado

‘El estanque de la abuela’ (Grandma’s Pond) invites your child into another surreal and highly imaginative world of acclaimed artist Terrell Powell.

All of FabuLingua’s little language learners already know that Grandpa has a pretty unusual collection of animals in Powell’s first Spanish story for kids, ‘La granja del abuelo’ (Grandpa’s Farm)

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Now our language learners can finally discover that Grandma has an even more unusual collection of eccentric fish! 🐡 Come to her pond to meet these fish in their underwater habitat. Each one is completely unique, you’ve never met a fish like them. And most importantly, each one has their own hopes and dreams!⁠ ⁠

We believe that art soothes the soul, and Terrell Powell’s art will take you on a wild flight of fancy that will provide a much needed escape from today’s realities!⁠

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Rani y Sapi 2

Mi escuela

Beginner

Illustrated by Calladitos

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Our beloved frog Rani is back! In ‘Mi escuela’, his 2nd story in the series, Rani is excited to introduce you to an old-timey notion of a school and introduce you to his diverse group of classmates who enjoy doing lots of activities!

Rani can’t wait for you to meet his many school friends including...⁠

🦇 napping bats⁠

🦎studious lizards⁠

🦆noisy ducklings⁠

🐁limber mice and ⁠

🐌 racing snails⁠

They all enjoy doing very different activities, but they appreciate each other’s differences and are friends!⁠ ⁠ In the second chapter of our short stories for kids in Spanish, your kids will perfect their counting skills as they learn new verbs for activities that young kids commonly engage in - from playing hide and seek, to swimming, laughing, sleeping, jumping, building, racing and even doing Yoga!⁠

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Explore a wooded wonderland with tall trees and colorful creatures!

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Pícnic

Beginner

Illustrated & Written by María Ramos

Embark on a lovely summer picnic, and watch your child’s imagination take flight as a picnic basket comes to life and lets them sneak a peek into the secret lives of simple lunch items. But what happens after this sumptuous spread is eaten? You get to learn all about recycling! María Ramos is a master at illustrating food items and other everyday objects so that they overflow with character and charm that will delight your child as they interact with these short Spanish stories for kids.

The story begins “on a sunny day, with a picnic in the countryside, and then it turns into a kind of game in which every piece of food or container is transformed into something new once it has been recycled,” María explains. She lovingly gets children to wonder what becomes of the leftover food and waste in a way that will have them giggling while they may consider the life cycle of things.

Come and meet the bouncing cupcakes 🧁, the runaway peanut 🥜 and cookie🍪, the floating cheeky pickles in a jar🥒, the grumpy can🥫, dancing pears🍐, and an enthusiastic coffeemaker who tries valiantly to pour coffee into giggling cups ☕!

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Memé el mapache mimado

Advanced Beginner

Illustrated by Alvaro Sanchez García

Written by Alejandra Jurado

Come and meet Memé! She’s a little brown racoon that is loved and spoiled by her family and friends. Her parents are throwing her a party in their burrow with cake and streamers, and all their friends are invited!

All their friends show up, including the mule, the monkey, the dove and the camel, and spoil her with lots of lovely gifts! But when the Puma shows up, he brings the best gift of all - music - and the party really gets going! By the end of an exciting day (that includes some impressive magic), Meme and her parents are ready to go to sleep!

This is the first story in our Spanish stories for kids series called “Sílabas” that explores the syllable family of ‘Ma Me Mi Mo Mu’. These phonetic stories are like phonics readers, and help young children master these classic syllable groups.

Un árbol

Intermediate

Illustrated & Written by Rodrigo Mattioli

In this award-winning story, a little girl makes a small decision which has big consequences. A simple act of planting a seedling sets in motion a cascading set of events that mushroom out of control with spectacular results!

In this charming book, we read with mounting interest about how the situation evolves. We count, we scratch out, we count again as an increasing large number of animals and plants start to flourish to create an extraordinary ecosystem.

This Spanish story for kids is also a beautiful example of the interconnectedness of all the elements in nature, and how they have a direct impact on each other.⁠⁠ It’s a reminder that all of our actions, big and small, lead to an endless amount of subsequent events. ⁠⁠ Aside from the beautiful lessons taught through the plot (valuable for family members of all ages!) “Un árbol” is also ideal for smaller children who are learning how to count! ⁠

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Visit the charming town where friendly neighbors play.

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Coqui tiene miedo

Advanced beginner

Illustrated & Written by Carolina Savard

In ‘Coqui tiene miedo’ a little girl is having trouble going to sleep, a universal problem that vexes children (and parents!) around the world. Sound familiar? Written and illustrated by a Chilean illustrator, Carolina Savard wrote this Spanish kids’ story for her own much younger sister Chloe who struggled so much with her nighttime fears.

Come join us as little Coqui sprints down the hallway to Mom’s room, as tears abound when she’s sent back to her room. Dad eventually joins the nighttime drama and both parents help her figure out why she’s scared. A night fairy, a guardian angel and vigilant parents are all recruited to vanquish imaginary monsters. Coqui can then overcome her fears and finally has a peaceful night’s sleep 🌙

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Está nevando en Nicaragua

Advanced Beginner

Illustrated by Jonathan Rodriguez Tejeda

Written by Alejandra Jurado

In “Está nevando en Nicaragua” (It’s Snowing in Nicaragua) ⁠a terrified brother watches the fog roll in, while his delighted sister goes out in the fog to play and have fun. Following some negotiations, she convinces him to embrace the weather and play in the fog with her. And so start a series of surreal and imaginative games between siblings in the fog!

Dancing with an otter, sailing through the clouds in a mother-of-pearl boat, toboggan racing in a tropical snow storm, and two siblings who share desserts.⁠ Pure fantasy and magic! (Whoever heard of siblings willing to share their dessert?)⁠

This story is part of a collection called “Sílabas”, where each of the short Spanish stories focuses on a different family of syllables that get inserted into the plot of the story.⁠⁠ This story works with the sílabas "Na-Ne-Ni-No-Nu". ⁠It helps build language-learning by subconsciously showing and familiarizing children with the sound of these basic building blocks, which are central to the Spanish language.⁠

Hugo

Intermediate

Illustrated by Antonino Torres Ruiz

Written by Daniela Maestres

“Hugo” is an adventurous teddy bear who wishes to be squeezed and played with. But his owner is a tidy boy who doesn’t like his toys to get dirty. So his stuffed animals spend a lot of time sitting on shelves in his room. But something wonderful happens and allows them to get a second chance to fulfill their wishes!⁠

“Hugo” is a beautiful Spanish kids’ story written in rhyme (which we love since it stimulates memory and phonetic awareness in children!) The characters in this long poem experience a range of emotions, from pride to sadness, boredom and excitement - so hold on to your seats!

“Hugo” is a tale of a teddy bear with a bold message: embrace life!⁠ The author wants children who read it to feel inspired to play, interact and express themselves more fully; to worry less and feel more. ⁠

Since the text is a little more advanced, we’ve also added an extra challenge: you have to find the interaction to move forward in the story! Are you ready to give it a try? ⁠

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Scale the highest peaks of FabuLingua island!

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El tapete de la tolerancia

Advanced Beginner

Illustrated by Iliana Pámanes

Written by Alejandra Jurado

In the next one of our interactive Spanish stories for kids, ‘El tapete de la tolerancia’, your child will be taken on a special journey aboard a magic carpet! But this is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill magic carpet... this one does something way more important than merely flying. Everyone who climbs aboard this carpet goes on a rollercoaster ride in the sky, where amongst peels of laughter, they develop a tolerance (and even friendship!) for each other that they did not have before. (Now THAT’S some serious magic!)

See how Toro (who once used to intimidate everyone) now advises Topo and Conejo to talk through their issues and come to a resolution. Witness how the formerly terrifying Tarántula has changed - and is now an advocate for generosity and sharing (and has even convinced Tiburón and Pato to share!) Tigre learns that if he shouts less, more people will listen to him, and Tucán has mastered his stutter and his words of wisdom are now understood by all!

Cecilia

Intermediate

Illustrated by Antonino Torres Ruiz

Written by Daniela Maestres

Frustrated at not being able to go out and play with her friends, Cecilia is miserably bored. But a magical unicorn is about to let her into the biggest secret of all - that if you embrace your imagination, you’ll never be alone! You can travel, climb aboard flying cars and be anything you want...

Cecilia’s mind is blown away, there is so much she can do with her imagination! Come join her in another one of our magical Spanish stories for kids as she explores jungles, caves, moonscapes, rainbows and castles and learns that with her imagination she will never be lonely or bored again!

Grande

Intermediate

Illustrated & Written by Canizales

“Grande” is a beautiful tale about self-discovery and self-confidence. It features a tiny hero called Petra, who wants to be big, shakes off the unkind words of others and follows her heart into a life-changing adventure with an unexpected outcome.

Petra wanted to be big - as big as Fox, Elephant or Giraffe. But they all dismissed her, and told her she was unimportant, that she’d never be big and never be anything other than a meaningless pebble on a path. “Grande” is one of our favorite Spanish children's stories about friendship, persistence and following your dreams. It's also a tale of grace and humility, about how not to give into resentment and revenge. “Grande” can be a beautiful reminder to put our focus on the things that really matter in life. ⁠

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Cuentos reales de la jungla

Intermediate

Written by Jesse Byrd

Illustrated by Andressa Meissner

🎃👻 Join us in one of our deliciously spooky Spanish bedtime stories, this time celebrating HALLOWEEN!! 🎃👻 ‘Cuentos reales de la jungla’ (‘Real Jungle Tales’) is a mischievous (and unexpected!) take on events around Halloween.⁠ ⁠Zara has been grounded on Halloween night! But she has a plan... a plan so genius, it might change her fate!⁠

You see, Zara has a gift - the gift of telling tales. Some of these tales are tall... very tall! Come and witness how Zara’s wonderful imagination and her ability to spin a yarn has all her classmates riveted during school recess. ⁠ ⁠

This little girl’s gift as an orator will also capture you and your child… you’ll be similarly gripped as she spins up a a terrifying adventure featuring

⁠evil, smoke-blowing zebras 💀🦓⁠

dancing and teeth-baring monkeys 🧛🐒⁠

mosquitos that are as big as a moose 🦌🦟⁠

purple spiders that are stronger than apes 🦧🕷️🕸️⁠

orange snakes that will gobble you up whole 👹🐍⁠ ⁠

When she’s done telling her tale, you too may be wondering how to avoid such terrifying encounters! 👻☠️⁠ ⁠

What would you be prepared to hand over to learn the secret to escaping that monster-ridden jungle??? 🎃🍭⁠

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