CONTENTS
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Bunny Rabbit 7
The Odd Man and the Dog True 14
The Owl and Grasshopper Green 19
Somewhere Town Kate Greenaway 21
The Timid Hare 22
Mabel and the Green Lizard Adapted 26
The Maiden and the Bird Lydia Maria Child 32
The Little Fish African Fable 35
Belling the Cat 37
The Fox and the Crow 40
Hans and Gretchen 41
Lady Moon Lord Houghton 50
Precocious Piggy Thomas Hood 52
Strange Lands Laurence Alma-Tadema 56
How to get a Breakfast 58
The Little Christmas Tree Adapted from an Old Story 60
Christmas Eve in an Attic 65
The New Year Adapted from Laura E. Richards 73
A Friendship Declined 77
The Selfish Man 79
The Magpie’s Nest 83
Adventures of the First Spring 86
The Bird’s Nest Lydia Maria Child 93
The Boastful Bamboo Tree Japanese Fable 100
6Return of Spring 105
Who holds up the Sky? Adapted 110
The Fox’s Plan 114
Tom and the Lobster Adapted 117
Why the Jellyfish has No Shell Oriental Fable 119
I would like You for a Comrade Judge Parry 132
Southwest Wind’s Visit to Gluck Adapted from John Ruskin 134
The Child and the Sparrow Thomas Westwood 143
The Rabbit’s Message German Tale 145
Laughing Sanja Japanese Folk Story 150
The Tiger and the Brahman 159
The Lion and the Story-teller 169
Over the Hill George MacDonald 174
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