Springtime is a green time When seedlings start their growing. Summertime's a rainbow time When many blooms are blowing. Autumntime's a brown time When seeds are ripe for sowing; But...
Learning about the sea
An oceanographer uses a device called a sonar to locate underwater sounds. Behind her is the underwater house she stays in. How long can you hold your breath under water? A few seconds? A minute?...
The big, blue marble
The earth looks like a big, blue marble to astronauts flying in outer space. It's easy for them to see the round shape of the earth because the astronauts are so far away. But how can you see the...
Moving into daytime
Imagine that you have awakened very, very early. You look out of a window. The sky is still black, and the whole world seems dark and silent. But as you watch for a long time, the sky slowly turns...
I Leave the Island
from Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell The book from which this story is taken is based on historical facts. When a ship comes to take a small band of Indians to the mainland,...
A New Way
from Toolmaker by Jill Paton Walsh This story takes place many thousands of years ago, in the time called the Stone Age, when people made and used stone tools. Ra is a fine toolmaker, and his skill...
Stories | Toad’s Escape
from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame In all the world of fantasy, there is perhaps no character more lovable---or more exasperating---than the sly, boastful, and conceited Toad. He is...
Something Told the Wild Geese
> by Rachel Field > > Something told the wild geese It was time to go. > > Though the fields lay golden > > Something whispered---"Snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, > luster-glossed,...
Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast
by John Ciardi Daddy fixed the breakfast. He made us each a waffle. It looked like gravel pudding. It tasted something awful. "Ha, ha," he said, "I'll try again. This time I'll get it right."...
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...
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