Stories
Real Karen children's books, page by page. Tap any word you know from the lessons to see its meaning.
These storybooks come from Let's Read, a free digital library by The Asia Foundation, and are shared under open licences. The Karen text is the published book; the word meanings that pop up are Knyaw's own, checked against sources and awaiting a native speaker.
Level 2
ဃုထံLooking For Water3 pagesENCC BY 3.0
မၤသ့ဒီးမၤတသ့Can and Can't6 pagesENCC BY 4.0
တၢ်လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤဒီးတၢ်လၢယတအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤDo and don't6 pagesENCC BY 4.0
သးဝီၣ်တၢ်လၢတၢ်စူၤကျါSing in the Rain6 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်လဲၣ်Why Hippos Have No Hair7 pagesENCC BY 3.0
ထီးတဘၣ်ဟဲနုာ်ဘၣ်No Pigs Allowed7 pagesENCC BY 3.0
မဲးတလဲး ထွံၣ်ဒီးကျီၢ်ဃုာ်ဒီးတၢ်ဂီၤမူဒၢGoat, Dog, Cow, and TV7 pagesENCC BY 3.0
သခီးသၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်ကပုာ်လုးThe Big Juicy Apple8 pagesENCC BY 3.0
တၢ်ပြၢThe Race9 pagesENCC BY 3.0
လိၢ်ကွဲမုာ်အဆၢကတီၢ်Playtime9 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ယုၢ်အဒၢးA House for Mouse10 pagesCC BY 4.0
ယထီၣ်တၢ်သ့I Can Climb!10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဘါတံဒီးဘးဘျံးBunty and Bubbly10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
သၣ်မံညီၤလၢအကဆှီClean Cat10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
တၢၢ်လၢအခုBusy Ants10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
တၢ်လီၤမၢ်ဒီးဃုထံၣ်က့ၤဝဲLost and Found10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ယတံၤသကိးMy Friends10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်My Best Friend10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဖိးစံး ကၠိၤစံး ၈ဲၤတၢ်မၤကဒါမဲာ်11 pagesCC BY 4.0
စီးဝၣ်ဃးလၢအကလုၢ်သီၣ်ဒိၣ်Noisy Crows11 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု14 pagesCC BY 4.0
မတၤအိၣ်လၢသပၢၤပူၤလဲၣ်?What's In the Pot?14 pagesCC BY 4.0
မဲာ်တဲးလဲးဖိLittle Goat14 pagesCC BY 4.0
အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိးပၢၤHello14 pagesCC BY 4.0
ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်14 pagesCC BY 4.0
ထွံၣ်လၢအလံးကျိးNaughty Dog15 pagesCC BY 4.0
သူးထီၣ်နူအ့ၣ်Sniffles15 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ထူမံးလဲၤလၢတၢ်ဟးကသုၣ်အလီၢ်15 pagesCC BY 4.0
ကဆီဖိလၢအဲၣ်ဒီးသ့ၣ်ညါအဲၣ်ဒီးထံတၢ်Curious Baby Elephant19 pagesCC BY 4.0
Level 3
ဘံမါ မံဆူၣ်အီၣ်ဃာ်Bheema, the Sleepyhead6 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ကိကိးလဲၤဖဲလဲၣ်Where is Gogo?6 pagesENCC BY 4.0
သ့ၣ်The Tree10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
နၤလၢအဂ့ၤ ထံကူးGoodnight, Tinku!10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
လါဒီးခိၣ်မီၣ်The Moon and the Cap10 pagesENCC BY 4.0
အ့နဲစံၣ်ဒီးလီတာ်Anansi and Vulture11 pagesENCC BY 3.0
ကဆီထံအဲဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ်Hippo Wants to Dance12 pagesENCC BY 4.0
မတၤတဂၤလဲၢ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ပတံသကိးWho Is Our Friend?13 pagesCC BY 4.0
တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး အတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤလၢအဒိၣ်အမုၢ်Little Ant's Big Plan14 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဒ့သံၣ် ဆီဖိလီလးAmazing Daisy16 pagesCC BY 4.0
ကနဲမဲာ်ချံအိၣ်Big-Eyed Bee20 pagesENCC BY 4.0
တၢၢ်ကမၤစၢၤထိၣ်လွံၢ်အတၢ်အိၣ်မူသ့ဒ်လဲၢ်How Ant Saved Dove23 pagesCC BY 4.0
ပ၀ဲနၤဒီးယၤပမ့ၢ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢWe Are All Animals27 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ပြာ်ဒီးသၣ်ထ့Prach and Sathae41 pagesCC BY 4.0
နီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်ဖိလၢတၢ်ဃဲပူThe Storybook Princess43 pagesCC BY 4.0
တၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိလၢအလီၤလးThe Amazing Adventure45 pagesCC BY 4.0
Level 5
ဒ့ၣ်သုဖိအမံၤလၢ မီးMod the Toad11 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢကနဲဖဲယူၤအခါကမၤသီၣ်အကလုၢ်ဟုၢ်ဟုၢ်လဲၣ်Why Do Bees Buzz?12 pagesENCC BY 4.0
စီး၀ၣ်ဃးလၢအသးဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ညီThe Generous Crow12 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ကသံၣ်ထူၤမဲက့ၤနုာ်လၢအဒၢပူၤသ့ဒ်လဲၣ်How Does the Toothpaste Get into the Tube?13 pagesCC BY 4.0
ချံးဃုအအၢးTortoise Finds His Home13 pagesCC BY 4.0
ယူၤထံDive!18 pagesENCC BY 4.0
ယကမၤစၢၤနၤI Will Help You18 pagesCC BY 4.0