• Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
Once Upon a Time, Stories & Poems

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...

Manuel
November 9, 2023November 21, 2023
Favorite Fables, Once Upon a Time

Favorite Fables | The Lion and the Mouse

by Aesop Once when a Lion was asleep, a little Mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon wakened the Lion. Angry at being disturbed, the Lion placed his huge paw upon the little Mouse and...

Manuel
November 9, 2023November 21, 2023
Folk & Fairy Tales, Once Upon a Time

Folk & Fairy Tales | The Three Billy Goats Gruff

a Norwegian folk tale by P. C. Asbjbrnsen and J. Moe adapted from the translation by G. W. Dasent Once upon a time there were three Billy Goats who wanted to go up to the hillside to make...

Manuel
November 9, 2023November 21, 2023
Once Upon a Time, Things to Know

Things to Know | An Animal Alphabet

> A is for ant. > > Where there's one, there are many. You either see lots or you don't > see any. > > B is for bear asleep in its den. > > When spring comes around it will wake up again. > > (56...

Manuel
November 9, 2023November 21, 2023
Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time

Nursery Rhymes | Old Mother Goose

> Old Mother Goose, > > When she wanted to wander, Would ride through the air On a very fine > gander. Mother Goose had a house, 'Twas built in a wood, Where an owl at the door For a sentinel...

Manuel
November 9, 2023November 21, 2023
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