adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in Germany just about two hundred years ago. Their collection of fairy tales, or "Household Tales" as...
What Is It?
author unknown The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, The end of every place. author unknown The ptarmigan is strange, As strange as he can be; Never...
Why the Kangaroo Hops on Two Legs
> an adaptation of "Bohra the Kangaroo" from Australian Legendary > Tales by K. Langloh Parker > > Long, long ago---in the time the Australian Aborigines > > call the Dreamtime---Bohra, the...
Thunder Butte
from When Thunders Spoke by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Fifteen-year-old Norman Two Bull is a modern Sioux boy who does not accept the old Indian beliefs. One night he goes to his grandfather's...
The New Kid
by Mike Makley A few of the kids and their parents say they don't believe that the new kid should play But she's good as me, Dutch, PeeWee, or Earl, so we don't care that the new kid's a girl. by...
The Old Man with the Bump
> from The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales retold by > Yoshiko Uchida Long, long ago, there lived an old man who had a large bump on his right cheek. It grew larger and larger each...
Harriet’s Secret
from Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Eleven-year-old Harriet wants to be a writer. To prepare for her future career, she keeps a notebook in which she jots down what she sees and thinks. The...
Limericks
A limerick is a clever and witty form of verse. It consists of five short lines. The first two lines always rhyme with the fifth line. No one knows who invented the form, but it takes its name from...
The Cow-Tail Switch
> a West African folk tale > > from The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold > Courlander and George Herzog > > Near the edge of the Liberian rain forest, on a hill > >...
I Find Wol
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...
