A traditional children story is a story based on the culture, traditional values and folk customs of one nation, country or region. As such, it bears the characteristics of the area in which it originated. It is a story that has been told and re-told for many years and consequently has become a story that almost everyone knows (the classics). It contains elements of local fairy tales, myths, legends and verbal sharing stories of one nation/ country/culture. They include spoken and written stories, pictures, songs, and poems which are supposed to educate, instruct, and entertain children by conveying the values, attitudes and information necessary so  that children learn to develop skills to live harmoniously within a certain society and culture.