More classics to read aloud to your children /
Selections for reading aloud from poems, novels, and plays by Blake, Longfellow, O. Henry, Twain, Shakespeare, Poe, and other well-known authors.
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New York :
Crown,
[1986]
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Table of Contents:
- (Ages 5- up): Brave tin soldier ; Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen
- Kitten at play / William Wordsworth
- The lamb / William Blake
- Aladdin and the wonderful lamp
- Pied piper of Hamelin / adapted from poem by Robert Browning
- Owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear
- Open road (from Wind and the willows) / Kenneth Grahame
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod / Eugene Field
- My bed is a boat / Robert L. Stevenson
- Dick Whittington and his cat
- Hiawatha's childhood (from Song of Hiawatha) / H.W. Longfellow
- Pandora's box (from A wonder book) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood
- On the meaning of words (from Alice through the looking glass) / Lewis Carroll
- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
- (Ages 8- up): A miserable, merry Christmas (from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens)
- Village blacksmith / H.W. Longfellow
- Jo's literary efforts (from Little women) / Louisa May Alcott
- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg
- Cop and the anthem / O. Henry
- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
- Beowulf's fight with Grendel (from Beowulf)
- June (from The vision of Sir Launfal) / James Russell Lowell
- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening / Robert frost
- from: The story of my life / Helen Keller
- Deacon's masterpiece, or, The wonderful one-hoss shay / Oiver Wendell Holmes
- from: Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
- Requiem / R.L. Stevenson
- (Ages 11- up): from: The yearling / Marjorie K. Rawlings
- Birches / Robert Frost
- Macbeth / W. Shakespeare, retold by Charles Lamb
- Lines written in early spring / W. Wordsworth
- Gettysberg address / Abraham Lincoln
- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Sonnet 29 ; Sonnet 116 / W. Shakespeare
- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
- Lottery / Shirley Jackson
- How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- To build a fire / Jack London.