The River Mermaid 🧜♀️🌊🐚
Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, friends, to short stories for kids. |
| 0:18.1 | The River Mermaid |
| 0:20.2 | Long ago, far upstream on the Amazon River, a fishing canoe crossed the waters. |
| 0:28.1 | Although the stars still shone overhead, the promise of the new day brightened the sky |
| 0:33.8 | with purples and pinks. |
| 0:36.5 | Sat in the boat was a young boy, and despite his age, his skill |
| 0:40.9 | at steering the vessel was impressive, barely making a splash as he dipped and pulled on the paddle. |
| 0:48.5 | He was aiming for a spot on the opposite bank where a tree had collapsed the river bank to be swallowed up by the water. |
| 0:56.5 | The tree was now a submerged paradise for the fish to hide amongst, creating a sheltered |
| 1:02.8 | pool between sunken branches and the muddy bank. The branches reached up like long wooden |
| 1:10.0 | fingers beneath his boat, but the boy was careful. |
| 1:14.3 | He came to a gentle stop, stowed his paddle, plucked up his precious fishing net, and cast it into the pool. |
| 1:23.2 | It rarely took him long to bring up enough fish to feed his family. |
| 1:27.7 | On his first cast, he snared a plump peacock bass, and then, on his second, a two-striped |
| 1:35.1 | Corey. |
| 1:36.5 | But on his third, the net refused to come up, no matter how hard he pulled. |
| 1:42.8 | He feared he had got it caught on the tree, and that he'd tear a hole if he |
| 1:47.4 | carried on pulling as he was, but he couldn't afford to lose his net. It was what kept his family |
| 1:54.3 | fed. So he pulled and pulled and pulled. With a jolt, the net was released, causing him to fall backwards and |
| 2:04.7 | crack his head on the boat's side, but he was too relieved to care. The net was free. He started |
| 2:13.0 | to haul it in, only to realize that something large was caught up in it. A glimpse of a long pink |
| 2:19.9 | tail suggested he'd captured a pink river dolphin. Oh, forgive me, said the boy as he scrambled |
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