Category: Children’s Literature
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The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad Chapter 7: A Shadow Passes Over the Smiling Pool
A Shadow Passes Over the Smiling Pool Here’s what Mr. Toad says;Heed it well, my dear:“Time to watch for clouds isWhen the sky is clear.” He says that that is the reason that he lives to a good old age, does Old Mr. Toad. I suppose he means that when the sky is cloudy, everybody…
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The Tale of Jolly Robin Chapter 18 ON TOP OF THE BARN
ON TOP OF THE BARN All the feathered folk on the roof of Farmer Green’s barn saw at once that Jasper Jay had told the truth. The golden bird was a rooster, just as Jasper had said. But it seemed strange to them that a rooster should sit on so high a perch. “It looks…
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Chapter 17: Gray Days And Gold
When Rebecca looked back upon the year or two that followed the Simpsons’ Thanksgiving party, she could see only certain milestones rising in the quiet pathway of the months. The first milestone was Christmas Day. It was a fresh, crystal morning, with icicles hanging like dazzling pendants from the trees and a glaze of pale…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 23: The Duke and the Duchess
Chapter 23: The Duke and the Duchess One fine day, just before sunset, our travelers came suddenly into a broad, green meadow which was bordered on three sides by a wood. In this meadow they saw a company of men and women whom Don Quixote guessed to be fine people out for a hunt. Nor…
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THE ADVENTURES OF OLD MR. TOAD: Chapter 6 Peter Discovers Something More
Peter Discovers Something More There are stranger things in the world to-dayThan ever you dreamed could be.There’s beauty in some of the commonest thingsIf only you’ve eyes to see. Ever since Peter Rabbit was a little chap and had first ran away from home, he had known Old Mr. Toad, and never once had Peter…
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The Tale of Jolly Robin Chapter 17 ONLY A ROOSTER
Jasper Jay spent several days looking for the great golden bird that Jolly Robin had described. But Jasper couldn’t find the wonderful creature anywhere. And he was wondering if it wasn’t just a hoax after all, as he had claimed. He had almost decided to give up his search, when he chanced to meet Bennie…
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Chapter 16: Seasons Of Growth
The days flew by; as summer had melted into autumn so autumn had given place to winter. Life in the brick house had gone on more placidly of late, for Rebecca was honestly trying to be more careful in the performance of her tasks and duties as well as more quiet in her plays, and…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 22: The Enchanted Bark
Chapter 22: The Enchanted Bark Fair and softly, and step by step, did Don Quixote and his squire wend their way through field and wood and village and farmland. Many and strange were their adventures — so many and strange, indeed, that I shall not try to relate the half of them. At length, on…
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The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad Chapter 8: Old Mr. Toad’s Babies
Old Mr. Toad’s Babies The Smiling Pool’s a nurseryWhere all the sunny dayA thousand funny babiesAre taught while at their play. Really the Smiling Pool is a sort of kindergarten, one of the most interesting kindergartens in the world. Little Joe Otter’s children learn to swim there. So do Jerry Muskrat’s babies and those of…
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The Tale of Jolly Robin chapter 16 JEALOUS JASPER JAY
JEALOUS JASPER JAY The feathered folk in Pleasant Valley were all aflutter. They had heard a strange tale–the oddest tale, almost, that had ever been told in their neighborhood. It was Jolly Robin who had started the story. And since he was not in the habit of playing jokes on people, everybody believed what he…