What is a family? To the ancient Greeks, it was a mother, father, and their children, living together in the same house. That's what the word "family" has meant to many people for thousands of...
A children’s zoo
A children's zoo is a little zoo inside a big one. The animals in a children's zoo are tame and gentle and can be touched and petted. Many of them are babies, so the keepers in a children's zoo must...
The Highwayman
by Alfred Noyes Part One The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,...
Anansi and the Plantains
from Anansi the Spider Man by Philip M. Sherlock Who was Anansi? He was a man and he was a spider. When things went well he was a man, but when he was in great danger he became a spider, safe in...
Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia
> by Peggy Parish The telephone was ringing. "I'm coming, I'm coming," said Amelia Bedelia. She answered the telephone. "Mrs. Rogers!" she said. "Where are you?" "I'm at the airport in Pinewood,"...
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...
Good Night
by Rose Fyleman The rabbits play no more, The little birds are weary, The buttercups are folded up--- Good night, good night, my dearie. The children in the country, The children in the city, Go...
Mary Had a Little Lamb
by Sarah Josepha Hale Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, Which was against the rule; ...
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
> There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children > she didn't know what to do She gave them some broth without any bread; > > She spanked them all soundly and sent them to bed....