You can enjoy these online stories, games and poems for starters. The Wishing Cupboard (Vietnam) is online for you to enjoy right now – with The River (China) and A Face in the Water (India) soon to follow. Weirdstop is a weird and wonderful reading stop which will soon have several more online stories. And there’s Poetry Parade to dip into where you can even write your own poems

WEIRDSTOP - Preview now
This will be a place where you can jump right off into stories of an unusual kind. They are both weird and wonderful. That's not all you can do at Weirdstop! There are really cool games attached to each story which increase in difficulty as you go. If you get through to the end of the story and then try Thinksmart, you can win a Weirdstop certificate. There's a section for teachers and parents as well. Watch out for the launch of the nine story sites that make up Weirdstop, the first phase of our Storystop Literacy Project in 2003.

THE WISHING CUPBOARD
This online story is begun with the opening of a gorgeous Vietnamese cupboard with its tantalizing drawers and doors. Tan's grandmother shows him the cupboard and explains that in each drawer is an object and a wish. Each object takes the user to a Vietnamese folktale but then back to young Tan. He is longing for his Mum to come back with his cousin from Vietnam but is distracted by the delights of the wishing cupboard. The last space is empty and his grandmother tells him, Tan can make a wish. In fact he makes more than one wish. The user must play a game to find out whether Tan's wishes come true.