Children's Story
Fairy Tale
noun
Don't think of this as a juvenile talk. Think of 話 the vocab word, which means "story." If you do that, you get a "juvenile story." What's a juvenile story? It's a children's story.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.
この童話、意外と泣けるんだよね。
This fairy tale will actually make you cry.
やっと、童話のしっぴつに、本気モードになってきました。
I'm finally getting serious about writing children's stories.
宮沢賢治の童話「祭の晩」は、私が子供の頃大好きなお話でした。
Miyazawa Kenji’s fairy tale "Night of the Festival" was my favorite story when I was a child.