童話故事情節往往離奇曲折，引人入勝。代表作品有《格林童話》、《安徒生童話》等。

　　與眾不同的螃蟹

　　A male crab1 met a female crab and asked her to marry him.

　　She noticed that he was walking straight instead of sideways. Wow, she thought, this crab is really special. I can’t let him get away. So they got married immediately.

　　The next day she noticed her new husband walking sideways like all the other crabs2, and got upset. "What happened?" she asked. "You used to walk straight before we were married."

　　"Oh, honey," he replied, "I can't drink that much every day."

　　一只雄蟹遇到了一只雌蟹，便向她求婚。

　　雌蟹發現他是直著走路，而不是橫著走。她心想，這只雄蟹真是與眾不同，我可不能讓他跑了。于是他們很快就結婚了。

　　第二天，雌蟹發現她的新郎走起路來和普通螃蟹一樣。她便疑惑重重。“你怎么了?”她問，“我們結婚之前你可是直著走路的。”

　　“哦，寶貝，”他回答說，“我不可能每天都喝那么多啊。”

　　騙獵遭黑

　　The deer feared the leopard1 cat, the leopard cat feared the tiger, and the tiger the brown bear.

　　The brown bear resembled the fox but was bigger in size. It had long fur on its head, and could stand up like man. It had great strength and would devour2 man.

　　In the south of the State of Chu, there was a hunter good at ventriloquy. With a bamboo pipe he could imitate the cries of various kinds of wild animals.

　　Once, carrying his bow, arrows and firearms, he quietly went hunting in the mountain.

　　Up on the mountain, he first imitated the cries of the deer to lure3 the horde4 of deer to come over, so that he could shoot at them with the firearms. The leopard cat heard the cries of the deer and came running to devour the deer. The hunter was afraid of the leopard cat, so he hurriedly imitated the roar of the tiger to scare away the leopard cat. Hardly had the leopard cat been scared away when the tiger heard the roar and came. At this moment, the hunter was even more frightened, so he imitated the cries of the brown bear. As a result, the tiger was scared away like the leopard cat.

　　Then, when the brown bear heard the cries, it came to look for its companions. Seeing that it was a man, the brown bear at once struck him with its front paws, and tore him up with its teeth. In a short while, the hunter was torn to pieces and devoured5 by the brown bear.

　　鹿害怕驅，驅害怕老虎，老虎害怕黑。

　　黑像狐貍，但是體形比較大。它頭上披著長毛，能夠像人一樣站立起來，力氣很大，要吃人。

　　楚國南方有一個獵人口技很好。他會用竹管來模仿各種野獸的叫聲。

　　有一次，他拿著弓箭和火器悄悄上山打獵。

　　上山以后，他先學鹿的叫聲，想引誘鹿群過來，再用火器射獵。驅一聽是鹿叫，就快步跑來想吃鹿。獵人害怕，急忙又學虎嘯來嚇走它。驅剛剛被虎嘯嚇跑，可是老虎卻聞聲趕到了。這時候，獵人更加害怕，于是就學黑叫。結果，老虎也像驅一樣逃跑了。

　　后來，黑聽見叫聲，就來尋找同伴。剛走到前面，它一看是一個人，就立刻用前爪打他，用牙齒撕他，不一會兒，把獵人撕成碎塊吃掉了。