Displaying 1 of 1 1984 Format: Book Title: Classics to read aloud to your children / [edited by] William F. Russell. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Crown, ©1984. Description: viii, 311 pages ; 24 cm Summary: Selections, including some rewritten for reading aloud, from poems, novels, and plays by Homer, Mallory, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, Twain, and other well-known authors. Subjects: Children's literature. Oral reading. Other Author: Russell, William F., 1945- Contents: The Ugly Duckling / Hans Christian Anderson -- Androcles and the lion / Aesop -- The early days of Black Beauty from Black Beauty / Anna Sewell -- Roin Hood and the Merry little old woman / Eva March Tappan -- How Arthur was crowned King from Morte de'Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- The Adventure of the windmills from Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- from Gullivers Travels / Jonathan Swift -- Ulysses and the Cyclops from The Odyssey / Homer -- The Golden touch adapted from The Wonder book / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Glorious whitewasher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- The Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Jim Bakers Bluejay yarn from A Tramp Abroad / Mark Twain -- from The Red Badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- The Adventures of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- from The Call of the wild / Jack London -- Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- The Windmill / henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- The Charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- It couldn't be done / Edgar A. Guest -- Passover: Pharaoh of the hard heart from Exodus -- Easter: "The Risen Lord" from The Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John -- Halloween: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" / Washington Irving -- Thanksgiving: "A Prayer of Thanksgiving" / Robert Louis Stevenson ; "Ezra's Thanksgivin' out west / Eugene Field -- Christmas: "A visit from St. Nicholas" / Clement Clarke Moore ; "The Gift of the Magi" / O. Henry ; A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 84007033 ISBN: 0517554046 9780517554043 0517587157 9780517587157 Other Number: 10710534 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 747616 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: j 088.8992 Classics Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
