Table of Contents
The little scarred one / Caroline Cunningham -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Nancy Hanks 1784-1818 / Rosemary Carr and Stephen Vincent Benbâet -- Pecos Bill / Traditional -- Cap Garland / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Jack and the north west wind / Richard Chase -- Being neighborly / Louisa May Alcott -- Pirates / Mark Twain -- Hiawatha's childhood / H.W. Longfellow -- Ashes of roses / Kate Douglas Wiggin -- The Wind begun to rock the grass / Emily Dickinson -- The Contests at Cowlick / Richard Kennedy -- The Peterkins are obliged to move / Lucretia P. Hale -- Little orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- Harrassing Miss Harris / Katerine Paterson -- Way down in the music / Eloise Greenfield -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Puppy for Harvey / Betsy Byars -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Coyote and Water Serpent / Traditional -- Cunning Brer Rabbit / Traditional -- The Wonderful ox / Wallace Wordsworth -- The Runaway / Robert Frost -- Henry and Ribs / Beverly Cleary -- The Island / Walter Farley -- Zebra question / Shel Silverstein -- The Huckabuck family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska and quit and came back / Carl Sandburg -- The Tale of Custard the dragon / Ogden Nash -- The Scarecrow and the tin Woodman / L. Frank Baum -- An Irritating creature / Jack Prelutsky -- The Pot child / Jane Yolen -- Lonesome boy / Arna Bontemps -- Slippers / Laurence Yep