Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass and didn’t even notice how cooling and refreshing to his bare toes the green blades were. Usually he just loved to feel them, but this afternoon he just didn’t want to find anything pleasant or nice in the things he was accustome...
If there was one thing that Tommy enjoyed above another, it was trapping. There were several reasons why he enjoyed it. In the first place, it took him out of doors with somethi...
9. CHAPTER ONE HOW IT HAPPENED THAT REDDY FOX GAINED A FRIENDIt was funny that Tommy never could pass that gray stone without sitting down on it for a few minutes. It seemed as if he just couldn’t, that was all. It had been a favorite sea...
2. CHAPTER TWO HOW TOMMY LEARNED TO ADMIRE THUNDERER THE RUFFED GROUSEFrom over in the Green Forest where the silver beeches grow, came a sound which made Tommy stop to listen. For a minute or two all was still. Then it came again, a deep, throbbi...
4. CHAPTER FOUR TOMMY BECOMES A VERY HUMBLE PERSON“Hello, old Mr. Sobersides! Where are you bound for?” As he spoke, Tommy thrust a foot in front of old Mr. Toad and laughed as Mr. Toad hopped up on it and then off, quite as if...
6. CHAPTER TWO WHY TOMMY BECAME A FRIEND OF RED SQUIRRELS“I don’t see what Sis wants to string this stuff all over the house for, just because it happens to be Christmas!” grumbled Tommy, as he sat on a big stone and idly kicked at a...
10. CHAPTER TWO TOMMY BECOMES A FURRY ENGINEERPaddy the Beaver lives in the Great Woods far from the dwelling-place of man. Often and often had Tommy wished that Paddy lived in the Green Forest near his home that he might m...
8. CHAPTER FOUR HOW TOMMY ENVIED HONKER THE GOOSEThe feel of spring was in the air. The sound of it filled Tommy’s ears. The smell of it filled his nostrils and caused him to take long, deep breaths. The sight of it gladdened...
7. CHAPTER THREE THE PLEASURES AND TROUBLES OF BOBBY COONTommy was trudging down to the corn-field, and his freckled face was rather sober. At least it was sober for him, considering why he was on his way to the corn-field. It wasn’t...
5. CHAPTER ONE WHY PETER RABBIT HAS ONE LESS ENEMYPeter Rabbit was happy. There was no question about that. You had only to watch him a few minutes to know it. He couldn’t hide that happiness any more than the sun at midday can...
3. CHAPTER THREE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN TOMMY BECAME A MINKIt was not often that Tommy caught so much as a glimpse of Billy Mink; and every time he did, he had the feeling that he had been smart, very smart indeed. The funny thing is th...
12. CHAPTER FOUR TOMMY LEARNS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A BEARTommy’s thoughts were straying. Somehow they were straying most of the time these days. They had been, ever since that day when he had wished himself into a beaver. He dreamed o...
1. CHAPTER ONE TOMMY AND THE WISHING-STONETommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass and didn’t even notice how cooling and refreshing to his bare toes the green blades were. Usually he just loved to feel them, but...