Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
For more than a generation Mr. Scudder’s _Book of Fables and Folk Stories_ has been a prime favorite with young readers. It has seemed to the publishers that a book which has maintained its popularity so long might well be furnished with illustrations more in accordance with t...
At last they drew near the castle of the one who really owned all the fields they had passed through. Puss asked about him, and found he was a monster who made every one about h...
6. Part 6At these words the whole palace was ablaze with light. Music sounded, and there was a stir all about. There was no Beast, but in his place a very handsome prince was at Beauty’s...
5. Part 5Still the bells rang. It was very early; no one was yet astir at the merchant’s house, and Dick, with new courage, took up his bundle, obeyed the bells, and walked quickly back...
4. Part 4“That little fellow is only trying to make fools of us.” So they came back and spoke low to him, saying: “Now let us have no more of your jokes, but throw out some of the money....
3. Part 3At last he could bear it no longer. He had changed in looks now, and he changed himself still more. Then, one bright summer morning, very early in the day, he climbed the bean-s...
1. Part 1For more than a generation Mr. Scudder’s _Book of Fables and Folk Stories_ has been a prime favorite with young readers. It has seemed to the publishers that a book which has ma...
7. Part 7“The money for which I shall sell this milk will buy me three hundred eggs. These eggs will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to...