From a parent's diary
Children's Day story for kids: A Witch?
Aromal Mithra · 2026-11-14
Children's Day in India is 14 November. Schools put up charts, cousins land up after lunch, and someone usually asks for a story. If you want a Children's Day story for kids in English that does not need a screen, I would press play on A Witch?
A Witch? is an original Storeezo audio story. It runs for about fifteen minutes. It was written for children around seven to eleven, the age when a rumour can travel faster than the truth, and when a lost tooth is still a big piece of news at home. I am not going to spoil the ending. The surprise belongs to the children who listen all the way through.
The story opens with Parthi. Unlike his cousins, he does not make a fuss about losing his teeth. That small difference is the doorway into the tale.
Then Sheela Aunty visits, with fragrant white flowers in her hair. Rumours spread that a real witch has arrived in the neighbourhood. The children hear of a witch who steals teeth. I wrote that rumour because it is the kind of story children tell each other when they are half frightened and half delighted. It feels exciting. It also sticks a label on a person who has only just walked in.
Parthi, Sean and Riya hatch a brave spy mission. They set out together to find out what is going on. Curiosity, courage and friendship are the threads I hope parents notice. None of the three has to be the loudest. They just have to stay with each other long enough to look properly.
A rumour is not the same thing as a person. Sheela Aunty arrives with flowers in her hair, and the neighbourhood has already decided what that means. A loose tooth, or a love of small mysteries, is enough reason to press play.
There is a sweet Children's Day surprise at the end of the mission. I will leave it inside the recording. The pleasure of this story is the moment the spy mission arrives somewhere the rumour did not predict. Please let your child hear that turn for themselves.
Afterwards, two questions are enough. Have you lost a tooth yet, and what did you do with it? Who was your favourite character? Those prompts are on the story page. When the audio stops, give the talking a few quiet minutes.
A fifteen-minute audio story is a gentle way to mark Children's Day at home, in the car, or after the school assembly. Put the screen face down and sit where you can hear it too. When it ends, ask what they think the witch was really doing there, and stay for the second answer.
Storeezo is a small studio in Kerala. We make screen-free audio stories in English for children aged 5 to 11. If you want to try a story before Children's Day, The Honey Thief is free: a nine-minute forest mystery about kindness and second chances, with three colouring sheets. I would still keep A Witch? for 14 November, because Children's Day is already inside it, as the day the spy mission leads to a surprise.
If you are choosing for a group of cousins, play it once for everyone. Fifteen minutes is long enough for a beginning, a rumour and a turn, and short enough that the youngest listener is still in the room. Younger children can follow Parthi and the tooth. Older ones can follow the rumour. Then ask who was the bravest, and who was the kindest. One play. Then the conversation that belongs to your family.