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Children’s literature is one of the major areas of literature in Modern India. The present article represents an effort to interpret Panchatantra, a classical Sanskrit book and its importance in the modern day classrooms. Historians found that in-between 300-500 BC, basically in India, stories and animal fables were narrated for educating students with special purpose of making them competent within a short period of time. The collection of these kind of moral stories is known as panchatantra. In this article, we will see some stories from Panchatantra, its content, its educational values, usefulness and adaptation of its techniques in the modern day language classrooms. The main aim of this article is to present an ancient Indian Short story book with its specialties and its tentative use in the present day education. Children usually have fascination towards short stories and when animated characters are there they enjoy it even more. Overall we will see how short stories from Panchatantra can be used not only to fine-tune the linguistic skills in children but also to fine-tune their socio-moral skills in the social group and in the community at large.