World classic, retold in simple Mandarin
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
狼和七只小山羊
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (狼和七只小山羊, Láng hé qī zhī xiǎo shānyáng) is a fairy tale by Brothers Grimm, retold in simple Mandarin as a 3-chapter story with audio for learners at about HSK 1 (Beginner).
Retold from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale: seven little goats are home alone, and a wolf with a chalk-soft voice and a flour-white paw is knocking at the door.
Meet the voices
- Narrator · 旁白 — A warm storyteller who sets each scene.
- Mother Goat · 山羊妈妈 — A kind, careful mother who loves her seven kids.
- Dabai · 大白 — The eldest kid, serious and sharp-eyed.
- Xiaohua · 小花 — A cheeky kid who brags and jokes.
- Xiaoqi · 小七 — The tiniest kid, who hides in the clock.
- The Wolf · 大灰狼 — A sly, hungry wolf who tries every trick.
3 chapters, one journey
Chapter 1: Mama Goes Out
妈妈出去了
Mama Goat leaves seven kids at home with one rule: never open the door. Then a wolf knocks, and he is a clever one.
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Chapter 2: The Clock
钟里的小七
The wolf comes back with a white paw and a sweet voice. Six kids scatter, but the smallest one has found a very good hiding place.
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Chapter 3: The Well
掉进井里
Mama finds the sleeping wolf, and the little goats need a way out. When the wolf wakes up thirsty, a well waits for him.
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Behind the story
This story comes from the Brothers Grimm, two German scholars who collected folk tales in the early 1800s. Their collection, Children's and Household Tales, has been told and retold around the world for more than two hundred years.
Chinese readers know it as 狼和七只小山羊, and it is a favorite in picture books and children's stories. Its lesson is easy to remember: listen carefully, look closely, and do not open the door to strangers.
Did you know?
- The Brothers Grimm were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who collected many stories, including Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel.
- In Chinese, 狼 (wolf) shows up in many sayings, such as 大灰狼, the big gray wolf of children's stories.
- The goat is one of the twelve zodiac animals in Chinese culture; 羊 can mean goat, sheep or ram.