The Fable Cottage

Ages 2–5

Multilingual New Zealand-based Language-learning fairy tales

Channel info

Run by: Headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand, founded in 2018 as a spinoff of an existing family of language-learning sites.

Why we picked it: Bilingual fairy tales made specifically for language learners — a genuinely relevant fit given our own ESL focus, with a real named team of translators and voice artists.

Learning focus: Bilingual narration of classic fairy tales — an explicit side-by-side format for directly comparing sentence structure across languages.

The Bear and the Bee

The Little Red Hen

Two good starting points — the channel has plenty more if these land well with your child.

Did you know? The Fable Cottage grew out of an existing family of single-language learning sites (The French Experiment, The Spanish Experiment, The Italian Experiment) before branching into bilingual fairy tales.