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...
My Shadow
> by Robert Louis Stevenson I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I...
I Keep Three Wishes Ready
by Annette Wynne I keep three wishes ready, Lest I should chance to meet, Any day a fairy Coming down the street. I'd hate to have to stammer, Or have to think them out, For it's very hard to think...
Come Away! Come Away!
> from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie > > Peter Pan, the little boy who never grew up, has been secretly > listening to Mrs. Darling tell bedtime stories to her three children. > But one night, when she...
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
by Ogden Nash > Belinda lived in a little white house, > > With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse, And a little > yellow dog and a little red wagon, And a realio, trulio, little pet >...
How the Camel Got His Hump
from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the...
A Kitten
> by Eleanor Farjeon He's nothing much but fur And two round eyes of blue, He has a giant purr And a midget mew. He darts and pats the air, He starts and cocks his ear, When there is nothing...
