> \ from Sounder by William H. Armstrong Sounder, a fine coon dog, was shot when the sheriff arrested his master. His wounds have healed, but he is badly crippled. With the care of the boy---his...
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...
The Family Dog
from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume I won Dribble at Jimmy Fargo's birthday party. All the other guys got to take home goldfish in little plastic bags. I won him because I guessed...
Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst Mother doesn't want a dog. Mother says they smell, And never sit when you say sit, Or even when you yell. And when you come home late at night And there is ice and snow, You...
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...
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...
Jack and the Beanstalk
> an English fairy tale Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack and a cow named Milky-White. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which...
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
> a West African folk tale retold by Verna Aardema One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole. The mosquito said, "Iguana, you will never believe what I saw yesterday." "Try me,"...
Cinderella
> adapted from a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault > > Once upon a time, there was a gentleman who married for his second > wife the proudest and most disagreeable woman that was ever seen. She...
The Five Chinese Brothers
a Chinese folk tale retold by Claire Huchet Bishop Once upon a time there were Five Chinese Brothers and they all looked exactly alike. They lived with their mother in a little house not far from...
