Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children Author:William F. Russell (Editor) A collection of stories, poems, legends, and myths for parents to read aloud to children aged five to twelve. — The Ugly Duckling / Hans Christian Anderson; Androcles and the lion / Aesop; The early days of Black Beauty from Black Beauty / Anna Sewell; Roin Hood and the Merry little old woman / Eva March Tappan; How Arthur was crowned King from M... more »orte de'Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory; The Adventure of the windmills from Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes; from Gullivers Travels / Jonathan Swift; Ulysses and the Cyclops from The Odyssey / Homer; The Golden touch adapted from The Wonder book / Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Glorious whitewasher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain; The Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry; Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare; Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving; Jim Bakers Bluejay yarn from A Tramp Abroad / Mark Twain; from The Red Badge of courage / Stephen Crane; The Adventures of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain; from The Call of the wild / Jack London; Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer; The Windmill / henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Highwayman / Alfred Noyes; The Charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Lord Tennyson; If / Rudyard Kipling; It couldn't be done / Edgar A. Guest; Passover: Pharaoh of the hard heart from Exodus; Easter: "The Risen Lord" from The Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John; Halloween: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" / Washington Irving ; Thanksgiving: "A Paayer of Thanksgiving" / Robert Louis Stevenson ; "Ezra's Thanksgivin' out west / Eugene Field; Christmas: "A visit from St. Nicholas" / Clement Clarke Moore ; "The Gift of the Magi" / O. Henry ; A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens« less