Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November


The Little Plant

In the heart of a seed,

Buried deep, so deep!

A dear little plant

Lay fast asleep!


"Wake!" said the sunshine,

"And creep to the light!"

"Wake!" said the voice

Of the raindrops bright.


The little plant heard

And it rose to see

What the wonderful

Outside world might be!

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Week 17 Pinocchio's Nose Grows from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Pocahontas from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Redwing and Yellow Wing from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Wisest Woman Comes to the King's Castle from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum The Armies of the North from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Strong Man: How He Lived and How He Died from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Wineland the Good (Part 1 of 2) from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Nan's Blue Spring Flower from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Lion and the Mouse from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Have a Great Fright from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Golden Touch from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Granny Fox Catches Peter Rabbit from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Flight from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Robin by Celia Thaxter Over the Hills and Far Away by Eugene Field   The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson Nod by Walter de la Mare Hie Away by Sir Walter Scott Don't Kill the Birds by Daniel Clement Colesworthy
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Goose and the Golden Egg

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.


[Illustration]

The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.