
About this book
The Brave Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
The Kitten at Play by William Wordsworth
The Lamb by William Blake
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from The Thousand and One Nights
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town adapted from the poem by Robert Browning
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Open Road from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
My Bed Is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Hiawatha's Childhood from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pandora's Box from A Wonder-Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
On the Meaning of Words from [Through the Looking-Glass](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8720850W) by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
A Miserable, Merry Christmas from The Auto- biography of Lincoln Steffens
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jo's Literary Efforts from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Beowulf's Fight with Grendel from Beowulf
June from The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
from [The Yearling](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL111382W) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Birches by Robert Frost
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (as retold by Charles Lamb)
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Subjects
Oral readingLiteratureCollectionsChildren's literatureAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionDetective and mystery storiesFictionfirst-person narrativeGothic fictionHomicideHorrorHorror fiction