More classics to read aloud to your children /

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More classics to read aloud to your children / [edited] by William F. Russell. - New York : Crown, c1986.
vi, 264 p. ; 24 cm. Content notes : (Ages 5- up): Brave tin soldier ; Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- Kitten at play / William Wordsworth -- The lamb / William Blake -- Aladdin and the wonderful lamp -- Pied piper of Hamelin / adapted from poem by Robert Browning -- Owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear -- Open road (from Wind and the willows) / Kenneth Grahame -- Wynken, Blynken and Nod / Eugene Field -- My bed is a boat / Robert L. Stevenson -- Dick Whittington and his cat -- Hiawatha's childhood (from Song of Hiawatha) / H.W. Longfellow -- Pandora's box (from A wonder book) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood -- On the meaning of words (from Alice through the looking glass) / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll (Ages 8- up): A miserable, merry Christmas (from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens) -- Village blacksmith / H.W. Longfellow -- Jo's literary efforts (from Little women) / Louisa May Alcott -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Beowulf's fight with Grendel (from Beowulf) -- June (from The vision of Sir Launfal) / James Russell Lowell -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening / Robert frost -- from: The story of my life / Helen Keller -- Deacon's masterpiece, or, The wonderful one-hoss shay / Oiver Wendell Holmes -- from: Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Requiem / R.L. Stevenson (Ages 11- up): from: The yearling / Marjorie K. Rawlings -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Macbeth / W. Shakespeare, retold by Charles Lamb -- Lines written in early spring / W. Wordsworth -- Gettysberg address / Abraham Lincoln -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Sonnet 29 ; Sonnet 116 / W. Shakespeare -- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To build a fire / Jack London. 0517561085 9780517561089 0517882272 (pbk.) 9780517882276 (pbk.) * Children's literature. Oral reading. Literature - Collections. * Russell, William F., * Title