from Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat Billy, Bruce, and Murray have lots of pets---dogs, white rats, snakes, rabbits, and gophers. Then they find the nest of a great horned owl. There are three...
Poems | Toad’s Song
from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame > The Lion > > by Jack Prelutsky "The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared...
Stories | Toad’s Escape
from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame In all the world of fantasy, there is perhaps no character more lovable---or more exasperating---than the sly, boastful, and conceited Toad. He is...
Stories and Poems
The third volume contains selections for more mature readers— a sampling of myths, legends, folk tales, modern fantasy, classic and contemporary fiction, lyric poetry, and narrative poetry. Among the 118 selections are poems by Jack Prelutsky and Lillian Morrison, tales by Yoshika Uchida and Hans Christian Andersen, and excerpts from novels by William H. Armstrong, Scott O’Dell, and Elizabeth George Speare.
A Kite
author unknown I often sit and wish that I Could be a kite up in the sky, And ride upon the breeze and go Whichever way I chanced to blow. by Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Neither...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer...
Something Told the Wild Geese
> by Rachel Field > > Something told the wild geese It was time to go. > > Though the fields lay golden > > Something whispered---"Snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, > luster-glossed,...
June!
> by Aileen Fisher > > My shoes are off and my socks are showing\... > > My socks are off \... Do you know how I'm going? BAREFOOT! > as my eyes search the prairie I feel the summer in the...
Christmas in the Little House
from Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder pictures by Garth Williams More than a hundred years ago, a little girl named Laura lived in a log house at the edge of a great forest in...
Daddy Fell into the Pond
by Alfred Noyes Everyone grumbled. The sky was gray. We had nothing to do and nothing to say. We were nearing the end of a dismal day, And there seemed to be nothing beyond, THEN Daddy fell into...