Egg-Carton Bean Race Start with an egg carton. Write a number, from one to six, in each cup on one side of the egg carton. Write the numbers in order or mix them up. Write the same numbers in the...
How It Snowed Fur and Rained Fry Cakes in Western Virginia
from The Remarkable History of Tony Beaver--- West Virginian by Mary E. Gober This story is a special kind of American folk tale called a tall tale. Tall tales are a lot of fun because they are full...
Alice in Wonderland
1: Down the Rabbit-Hole from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The author invented this story for a little girl named Alice Liddell and her two sisters. He told it to them while...
Pooh Goes Visiting
from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne Young Christopher Robin and his stuffed bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, have been favorites for years. Pooh, also known as Edward Bear, lives in a house in the forest. For...
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter illustrations by Beatrix Potter Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--- They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a...
Stories & Poems | The Velveteen Rabbit
##Stories & Poems from The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a...
The Foolish, Timid Rabbit
a Jataka Tale from India retold by Ellen C. Babbitt Once upon a time, a Rabbit was asleep under a palmtree. All at once he woke up, and thought: "What if the world should break up! What then would...
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,"...