The Just King

A long time ago, in a distant land, there was a small but very beautiful village. In the most beautiful part of this village, nestled among trees, stood a grand palace where a king lived. The king ruled over the land and had two beautiful children. The villagers loved the king and his family very much. Everyone was happy and peaceful.

But this happiness came to an end one day when the queen fell ill with an incurable disease. The king and all the villagers did everything they could, but nothing could save the queen, and she passed away.

Even after a long time, the king and his children couldn’t get used to this loss. The king was especially sorrowful for his children, as he couldn’t care for them as he wished. So, he decided to start listening to the advice of his people again.

After some time, he remarried, and from this marriage, he had another child. At first, everything seemed wonderful. But one day, the king had to leave on a journey that would last for months. During his absence, hard times began. The king's wife started treating the children badly and unjustly favored her own child. She constantly scolded the king’s children and punished them unfairly.

The villagers, seeing this, were deeply saddened. Finally, they made a decision and chose one among them to inform the king of the situation. Days later, the king returned to the palace and, upon hearing everything from the villagers, wasted no time in banishing his wife from the palace. He put an end to the injustice.

Everyone returned to living happily as they had in the past. The villagers never drifted apart, and the king always treated everyone justly.

EBRU KORKMAZ NEVŞEHİR KALABA ATATÜRK PRIMARY SCHOOL

                                                          The Shepherd's Flock

Koca Hasan was a famous wrestler in his younger days. As he grew older, he left wrestling behind and earned a living by keeping a small flock of sheep. Loved and respected by all, Koca Hasan was known as a trustworthy and harmless man in his community.

One day, while grazing his sheep, he decided to rest under the cool shade of a tree. Having been sleep-deprived the previous night and tired from the day's work, he fell asleep. The sheep, of course, didn’t idle around. Taking advantage of the situation, a few wandered off into a neighbor's vegetable patch. This neighbor, Ramo, had recently planted young vegetables, which the sheep devoured, leaving no trace behind.

When Koca Hasan woke up, he was met with the aftermath of the situation. Unsure of what had transpired or how to handle it, he decided to go straight to Ramo's house to address the issue.

Ramo understood the situation but was understandably upset. He expressed his frustration to Koca Hasan while inspecting the damage and pondering how to resolve the matter. Although angry, Ramo decided not to escalate the situation and instead took the sheep back as compensation for the damage.

Despite resolving the immediate issue, both Ramo and Koca Hasan felt uneasy. Ramo, realizing the damage wasn’t severe, decided to let the matter go. He suggested to Koca Hasan to take better care of his flock and avoid such incidents in the future.

Koca Hasan gathered his sheep and resolved to be more cautious, ensuring such problems wouldn’t happen again. Thus, both parties managed to navigate the situation with understanding and moved on.

                                       Gülay GENCER Nevşehir Cumhuriyet İlkokulu

Justice

       Once upon a time there was a family of rabbits. The eldest daughter was called Sara and her two sisters and her mother treated her very badly. Her sisters picked on her and her mother did not pay attention to her, she told her to clean and clean all the time.

            One day there was an animal contest in the forest and there were all the animals but especially rabbits. 

Her mother and sisters did not let her come because they were envious that the rabbit that was the nicest would win and she was a good working rabbit and thought a lot about others. They didn't let her go but she was hidden from her sister and her mother when they arrived everyone was asking about Sara because she was very generous and her mother said that she didn't come because she didn't want to come but that was a lie they had just locked her in the cellar room, but when he realized she was there because she had managed to leave the room. They climbed a giant log in the middle of the forest and gave them a giant carrot trophy, and that's how their sisters and mother learned to respect others. 

María Bravo Aguilar

Once upon a time there were four brothers who lived together in a small house. The oldest always kept everything they found, even if it was his brothers'. One day, the youngest brother found three gold coins, and decided to distribute them among his brothers, except his older brother.

But of course, I didn't want to do it. So, he created a fake cardboard coin so as not to look bad.He gave them to them, he told them everything about middle brothers and the three days the oldest realized so he got angry, and went to look for his siblings. His brothers told him

That's how he behaved with them, so his brother understood that he had to share to be happier.

Emma Espinosa Belmonte 

A trip to africa

Hello, my name is Daniel and I am from Murcia, Spain.

I have always wanted to visit Africa with my friends and see what it is like. It all started when I found out that the people of Africa had a very bad time and I wanted to help.

So I called my friends and told them what I wanted to do, they told me okay, we'll start by going to Bali, Africa. I went with only two friends, Mario and José.

Together we donated 500 African “euros”.

Then, we played for a while with the children from Africa, we had a great time, they were very friendly when we ate, they told them if we wanted to eat more and in return they didn't eat. Obviously I told them no. Then we donate food and water,

Not a lot but the amount of food we donated was good.

And this has been my story. See you next time!

Daniel Garrido Castillo 

It’s not fair

There was a boy who had no money. One day he met a girl who was generous and always told him ‘it’s not fair that you can go to school because you don’t have money’. One day the girl invited him to her house and she took her brother’s clothes and put them on. The girl always said ‘it’s not fair that you don’t have clothes because you don’t have money’. She enrolled him in the school where she went and always gave him half of this sandwich. They became very close friends and the girl told him ‘it’s not fair that everyone who doesn’t have money can’t enjoy what others enjoy’.

Victoria González García

Prince Lapio

Once upon a time there was a prince who was very unfair. Although he seemed perfect, handsome, brave and intelligent, it seemed that Prince Lapio had never explained what justice consisted of. If two people arrived arguing about something, he would agree with the one who seemed more handsome than the one who had the right. Coolest sword. Tired of all that, the king decided to call a wise friend to teach him how to be fair.

"Take him away my wise friend," said the king, "and let him not return until he is prepared to be a just king." 

The wise man then left with the prince by boat, but they suffered a shipwreck and the two of them ended up alone on a desert island without water or food. The first few days, Prince Lapio, a great hunter, managed to catch some fish. When the old man asked him to share them The prince refused. But a few days later, the prince's catch began to become scarce, while the wise man managed to catch birds almost every day. And just like the prince had done, he did not share them, and even He began to accumulate them while Lapio became increasingly thinner, until finally, he cried and begged the wise man to share the food with him and save him from dying of hunger.

–I will only share the food with you –said the wise man– if you show me what lesson you have learned.

And Prince Lapio, who had learned what the wise man wanted to teach him, said:

–Justice consists of sharing what we have among all equally.

Then the wise man congratulated him and shared his food, that same afternoon a boat picked them up from the island. On their return trip, they stopped on a mountain, where a man recognized him as the prince.

I am Maxi, the chief of the Maxiatos, please help us, because we have a problem with the village next door, the Miniatos. We both share the meat and vegetables, we always argue about how to divide them.

–Very easy, you just have to count how many of you there are in total and divide it equally– said the prince, making use of what he had learned with the wise man.

When the prince said that, thousands of shouts of joy were heard coming from the mountain, while a group of very angry men appeared, led by the one who had asked the question, pounced on the prince and took him prisoner. The prince did not understand anything until they locked him in a cell and told him:

–You have tried to kill our people, if you do not solve the question by dawn you will be trapped forever.

And it turns out that the Miniatos are tiny and numerous and the Maxiatos are huge and very few, so the solution that the prince had proposed would starve the Maxiatos, who would get tiny portions. The prince understood the situation and spent the whole night thinking. The next morning, when they asked him, he said:

–Don't make equal parts; divide the food based on what each one eats. Let everyone take the same number of bites, so they will eat based on their size.

Both the Maxiatos and the Miniatos were delighted with this solution, after organizing a great party and showering it with gold and gifts, they let Prince Lapio and the wise man go. While they walked the prince commented:

–I have learned something new: it is not fair to give the same to everyone; the fair thing is to share taking into account the different needs of each one. And so they returned to the palace.

Naia González Torre

THE CHILD IN HIS TENT

    Once there was a very nocturnal boy in the jungle. He could barely sleep at night, and lying in his tent he was dedicated to looking at what was happening in the jungle during the night. That's how he discovered that there was a thief watching pass by in that jungle every night as she left with empty hands and returned with the objects stolen during her misdeeds. Sometimes they were mr. alejandro's bananas, others sofía's wig or maría's striped t-shirts and one day even the false fang that the big boss used to keep the secret but how since that child was a very quiet guy who lived on the margin of everyone, he didn't want to say anything to anyone because the thing didn't go with him to really say, he was enjoyed to discover those secrets. so the people of the jungle became revolutionized by the presence of the stealth thief the boss felt ridiculous without his fang maria looked like a white donkey and let's not say sofia he no longer paid any respect being he was bald like a lioness so the most of the furious animals were confused or ridiculous but the child continued quiet in his campaign enjoying even every night with the thief's travels.

Nazareth Ballester Murcia

THE RACE

Once they did a charity race where many animals participated: lions, turtles, dogs, cats and rats. When they arrived everyone laughed at the turtles for being slow and at the rats for being small. The spectators said that they had the right to run even if they were small or slow, they ran and the rats and the turtles won and they said it doesn't matter how slow someone is, small, big, fat or skinny, we all have the right to do everything.

Dario Belchi Casanova

Every effort has its reward

Once upon a time there were two people, Luis and Juan.

Luis was very fast and always made fun of Juan for being very slow. 

One day they decided to have a race. In the middle of the race, Luis sat under a tree and began to rest because he was sure he was going to win but Juan continued running slowly but without rest. When Luis finished resting he got up and saw that people were congratulating Juan. Luis felt ashamed for having made fun of Juan and for not having run with effort.

Luis learned that justice sometimes means that he who works constantly, even if he is slow, can achieve success. 

Luis apologized to Juan and from that day on, both were good friends and learned to value each other's abilities.

Adrián Botía Huertas

THE KING DOG OF THE JUNGLE

There was a dog that was very annoying, super cruel, violent, not easy to treat, and when they played a game he was a very good creature.

When the king of the jungle was not there, he was the king. Under his reign he held a general meeting

of the animals of the jungle to apologize to all the animals and receive mutual satisfaction the elephant gave peace to the rabbit to the lamb to the panther to the camel to the panther, etc.

The shy panther said then, I have ardently longed to see this day arrive so that the weakest of us can be the most respected with justice by the strongest in the jungle.

Alvaro Buendia Bravo

                             AN ANT AND HER LADYBUG FRIENDS

Once an ant was walking in the forest, he met the queen ant and said... good morning madam queen and madam queen... good morning and he continued on his way. The next day the ant went to the forest again and found himself with some ladybugs, the ant asked him, "What are you doing in the forest?" and the ladybugs responded 'looking for food and the ant wasn't going for that but he continued searching. In the distance they saw a large herd of ants, they were the ants They worked for the queen! The next day the ladybugs and ants went to complain to the queen ant that it wasn't fair that they took away all the food. Because it's not fair that he will take all the food because even if you don't have food and you can find it, don't take it all because he thinks others don't have it and it's costing him like it cost you.

Martina Castejón Gómez

                                                                             JUSTICE

Once upon a time, in a distant forest lived many animals. One day they discovered that someone had stolen food from the king's storehouse. The animals of the forest began to accuse the little hedgehog of stealing the food. The hedgehog, although small and weak, was innocent. However, everyone had already accused him, and the voices of the forest had condemned him. Because of this injustice, the hedgehog decided to ask the wise owl for help. The wise owl listened carefully to the hedgehog's story and decided that it was not fair to accuse the weak hedgehog without first investigating. She went to the king's storehouse and noticed that the footprints left by the animals who had stolen the food were larger than those of the hedgehog. Finally, he came to the conclusion that the wild boars who had passed through the forest, taking everything they found on their way, had also stolen food from the king's storehouse. The owl called all the animals to a meeting and revealed the truth. They all felt ashamed of the injustice they had done to the hedgehog and asked him to forgive them. The hedgehog, with the help of the owl, managed to find the truth and restore justice.

STORY ABOUT JUSTICE

    At school, a boy named Lukas often bullied a girl named Laura. One day, after returning home, Laura told her parents about it. Her parents suggested that she try to befriend Lukas. Laura didn’t like this suggestion, so she decided to act differently. 

     The next morning, when she arrived at school, she took Lukas's wallet from his backpack and hid it. When Lukas went to lunch, he noticed that his wallet was missing. He told the teacher about it. Before the lesson started, the teacher informed the class about Lukas’s missing wallet. Laura felt bad and admitted that she had hidden the wallet because she was angry at Lukas. The girl apologized to Lukas. Lukas also apologized to Laura for treating her badly.

     From that moment on, they became good friends.

Panevezys Primary School, Lithuania

JUSTİCE WAS DONE

It was a Sunday. Since it was a beautiful day, three friends decided to meet up. Ayşe, Zeynep, and Nilüfer were very good friends.

Zeynep and Nilüfer came to Ayşe's house. At first, they played nicely together. Then, they decided to play a teacher game.

At first, Ayşe decided to be the teacher, and the others chose to be students. In the game, Ayşe always treated Zeynep well, gave her all the privileges to answer questions, and assigned all responsibilities to her.

Nilüfer thought that this was not fair. She felt very, very sad about the situation. Crying, she went and told Ayşe's mother about it.

She could never tolerate injustice and would never side with the one who committed it. An honest person would always speak the truth without hesitation, no matter where they were.

She explained everything to Ayşe's mother. She said that Ayşe always wanted to play with Zeynep because Zeynep was very smart and beautiful.

A few days later, they were getting their report cards. Ayşe was very surprised by what she received. Nülifer had become the top of her class. In this situation, Ayşe was very ashamed of her behavior.

She apologized to her friend. She vowed that she would never treat people like this again and that she would be fair to everyone from now on.