More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
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More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children

1986
264 pages
Oral readingLiteratureCollectionsChildren's literatureAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionDetective and mystery storiesFiction

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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8720850W) 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL111382W) 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) 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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