Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
_Tops and toys and picture books; Sliding ponds and summer brooks; Birds among the tree-tops green; Flowers thrusting to be seen— And about you, like a charm To protect you, Mother’s arm...._
_Tops and toys and picture books; Sliding ponds and summer brooks; Birds among the tree-tops green; Flowers thrusting to be seen— And about you, like a charm To protect you, Mot...
2. Part 2Peterkin looked down at the shore, his heart jumping into his throat. Yes, alas! His Pumperkin was gone! His pumpkin house had been swept away by the storm—swept out to sea!
3. Part 3It was pitch black there. He groped and stumbled. His knee grazed against a step. He climbed ... then another, and another and another, until he was at the head of a steep fligh...
4. Part 4“We found him soon bending down at the edge of one of the last of our brooks. He was drinking, drinking, drinking. He was sucking the pearly water up, up into his puffed cheeks....
5. Part 5“I hurried back to the Four Kingdoms. I met the King in his gilded dining hall. Before his host of cowardly courtiers, I threw myself upon him and sought to bury my teeth into h...
6. Part 6And, the very next day, at the hour of ruddy sunset, when all the windows of the palace burned with a bright reflection, and the moon was sailing high up, white and wan, into th...