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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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More Classics To Read Aloud To Your Children
August 16, 1994, Three Rivers Press
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More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
1986, Crown Publishers, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Reading Aloud and the Teachable Moment
Listening Level I (Ages 5 and up)
The Brave Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
The Kitten at Play by William Wordsworth
The Lamb by William Blake
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from The Thousand and One Nights
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town adapted from the poem by Robert Browning
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Open Road from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
My Bed Is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Hiawatha's Childhood from The Song of
Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pandora's Box from A Wonder-Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
On the Meaning of Words from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Listening Level II (Ages 8 and up)
A Miserable, Merry Christmas from The Auto- biography of Lincoln Steffens
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jo's Literary Efforts from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Beowulf's Fight with Grendel from Beowulf
June from The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Listening Level Ill (Ages 11 and up)
from The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Birches by Robert Frost
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (as retold by Charles Lamb)
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Afterword

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1986

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8/99282
Library of Congress
PZ5 .M834 1986

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
vi, 264 p. ;
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2711432M
Internet Archive
moreclassicstore00russ
ISBN 10
0517561085
ISBN 13
9780517561089
LCCN
86004201
OCLC/WorldCat
13270377
Library Thing
169697
Goodreads
4573559

Work Description

The Brave Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
The Kitten at Play by William Wordsworth
The Lamb by William Blake
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from The Thousand and One Nights
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town adapted from the poem by Robert Browning
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Open Road from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
My Bed Is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Hiawatha's Childhood from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pandora's Box from A Wonder-Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
On the Meaning of Words from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
A Miserable, Merry Christmas from The Auto- biography of Lincoln Steffens
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jo's Literary Efforts from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Beowulf's Fight with Grendel from Beowulf
June from The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
from The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Birches by Robert Frost
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (as retold by Charles Lamb)
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Build a Fire by Jack London

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