> Stupid with a brand-new kite Lost it in a tree > > Way up high and tangled tight--- No more kite for me. > > Stupid falling off a log When I tried to get Close enough to catch a > frog Came home...
I Woke Up This Morning
by Karla Kuskin I woke up this morning At quarter past seven. I kicked up the covers And stuck out my toe. And ever since then (That's a quarter past seven) They haven't said anything Other than...
Happy Thought
by Robert Louis Stevenson The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Question author unknown Do you love me Or do you not? You told me once But I...
Counting
> To count myself > > Is quickly done. > > There's never more of me Than one. > > Counting > > by Karla Kuskin > > Toucans Two > > by Jack Prelutsky Whatever one toucan can do is sooner done...
Mother, Mother, I Want Another
by Maria Polushkin pictures by Diane Dawson It was bedtime in the mouse house. Mrs. Mouse took baby mouse to his room. She helped him put on his pajamas and told him to brush his teeth. She...
Time to Read
The second volume features selections for children who are beginning to read—read-aloud and easy-to-read stories, poems, and riddle rhymes, including tales about such memorable characters as Paddington Bear, Ramona Quimby, Encyclopedia Brown, and Amelia Bedelia.
Snowy Morning
by Lilian Moore Wake gently this morning to a different day. Listen. There is no bray of buses, no brake growls, no siren howls and no horns blow. There is only the silence of a city hushed by...
Thaw
> by Eunice Tietjens The snow is soft, and how it squashes! > "Galumph, galumph!" go my galoshes. "Thumbs in the thumb-place, Fingers all together!" This is the song We sing in mitten-weather....
Rosa-Too-Little
by Sue Felt It was winter. The snow was piled in shapeless mounds along 110th Street. But it wasn't the snow that bothered Rosa as she followed Margarita up the library steps into the warm...
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
by Eugene Field > Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--- > > Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. "Where are you going, and what do you wish?" The old...