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 Water
မၤသ့ဒီးမၤတသ့Can and Can't
တၢ်လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤဒီးတၢ်လၢယတအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤDo and don't
သးဝီၣ်တၢ်လၢတၢ်စူၤကျါSing in the Rain
ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်လဲၣ်Why Hippos Have No Hair
ထီးတဘၣ်ဟဲနုာ်ဘၣ်No Pigs Allowed
မဲးတလဲး ထွံၣ်ဒီးကျီၢ်ဃုာ်ဒီးတၢ်ဂီၤမူဒၢGoat, Dog, Cow, and TV
သခီးသၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်ကပုာ်လုးThe Big Juicy Apple
တၢ်ပြၢThe Race
လိၢ်ကွဲမုာ်အဆၢကတီၢ်Playtime
ယုၢ်အဒၢးA House for Mouse
ယထီၣ်တၢ်သ့I Can Climb!
ဘါတံဒီးဘးဘျံးBunty and Bubbly
သၣ်မံညီၤလၢအကဆှီClean Cat
တၢၢ်လၢအခုBusy Ants
တၢ်လီၤမၢ်ဒီးဃုထံၣ်က့ၤဝဲLost and Found
ယတံၤသကိးMy Friends
ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်My Best Friend
ဖိးစံး ကၠိၤစံး ၈ဲၤတၢ်မၤကဒါမဲာ်
စီးဝၣ်ဃးလၢအကလုၢ်သီၣ်ဒိၣ်Noisy Crows
ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု
မတၤအိၣ်လၢသပၢၤပူၤလဲၣ်?What's In the Pot?
မဲာ်တဲးလဲးဖိLittle Goat
အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိးပၢၤHello
ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်
ထွံၣ်လၢအလံးကျိးNaughty Dog
သူးထီၣ်နူအ့ၣ်Sniffles
ထူမံးလဲၤလၢတၢ်ဟးကသုၣ်အလီၢ်
ကဆီဖိလၢအဲၣ်ဒီးသ့ၣ်ညါအဲၣ်ဒီးထံတၢ်Curious Baby Elephant
Level 3
ဘံမါ မံဆူၣ်အီၣ်ဃာ်Bheema, the Sleepyhead
ကိကိးလဲၤဖဲလဲၣ်Where is Gogo?
သ့ၣ်The Tree
နၤလၢအဂ့ၤ ထံကူးGoodnight, Tinku!
လါဒီးခိၣ်မီၣ်The Moon and the Cap
အ့နဲစံၣ်ဒီးလီတာ်Anansi and Vulture
ကဆီထံအဲဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ်Hippo Wants to Dance
မတၤတဂၤလဲၢ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ပတံသကိးWho Is Our Friend?
တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး အတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤလၢအဒိၣ်အမုၢ်Little Ant's Big Plan
ဒ့သံၣ် ဆီဖိလီလးAmazing Daisy
ကနဲမဲာ်ချံအိၣ်Big-Eyed Bee
တၢၢ်ကမၤစၢၤထိၣ်လွံၢ်အတၢ်အိၣ်မူသ့ဒ်လဲၢ်How Ant Saved Dove
ပ၀ဲနၤဒီးယၤပမ့ၢ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢWe Are All Animals
ပြာ်ဒီးသၣ်ထ့Prach and Sathae
နီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်ဖိလၢတၢ်ဃဲပူThe Storybook Princess
တၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိလၢအလီၤလးThe Amazing Adventure