Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"There are twelve months throughout the year, From January to December, And the primest month of all the twelve Is the merry month of September! Then apples so red Hang overhead, And nuts, ripe-brown, Come showering down In the bountiful days of September!"
"What will the fishers do, When at the break of day They seek the pretty boats they left Moored in the quiet bay? They seek the pretty boats, And find that they are fled; Alas!...
4. Chapter 4"The leaves were reddening to their fall, 'Coo!' said the gray doves, 'coo!' As they sunned themselves on the garden wall, And the swallows round them flew. 'Whither away, sweet...
14. Chapter 14It was not quite a week since Darby and Joan had so suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from Firgrove; yet to the distracted aunts it seemed as if years instead of days had dr...
3. Chapter 3Answered the green leaves, soft and mild, Whispered the green leaves, soft and clear,-- 'It is a song for every child, It is a song God loves to hear; It is the only song we kno...
5. Chapter 5When dinner-time came without bringing the children in, nurse became very cross indeed. Baby had been somewhat troublesome all the forenoon. Auntie Alice had lately got into the...
15. Chapter 15This evening the sisters were pacing arm in arm up and down the long, wide gravel walk between the front door and the gate. Miss Turner looked pinched and worn, with pale cheeks...
9. Chapter 9"Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman's, And the fountain of feeling will flow When I think of the paths, steep and stony, That the feet of the dear ones must go.
10. Chapter 10"Now, please, Mrs. Joe, will you show Joan and me the nearest way to the place where you found us?" asked Darby in all good faith when they had finished their breakfast. It had...
8. Chapter 8"'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the spider to the fly; ''Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy. The way into the parlour is up a winding stair, And I hav...
16. Chapter 16"For me, my heart that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love r...
13. Chapter 13Behind the stackyard at the Traveller's Delight the ground dipped down into a hollow, which, even in daylight, was completely screened from the view of any one within the house...
6. Chapter 6"Shall we call this a boat out at sea, We four sailors rowing? Can you fancy it? Well, as for me, I feel the salt wind blowing. Up, up and down, lazy boat! On the top of a wave...
7. Chapter 7"He was a rat, and she was a rat, And down in one hole they did dwell; And both were as black as a witch's cat, And they loved one another well.
2. Chapter 2"If I could but wake and find it a dream! But I can't--oh, what shall I do? It's only the good things that change and seem, The bad ones are always true. And miracles never happ...
11. Chapter 11"Little robin redbreast sat upon a tree, Up went pussy-cat, and down went he; Down came pussy-cat, and away robin ran; Says little robin redbreast, 'Catch me if you can.'
17. Chapter 17Six o'clock had chimed from the church tower, and already the sun's rays were falling slantwise across the water, and tingeing the kingly heights of Arran with a royal purple ra...
1. Chapter 1"There are twelve months throughout the year, From January to December, And the primest month of all the twelve Is the merry month of September! Then apples so red Hang overhead...