Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for October

Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Stork

The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.

"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.

For dinner the Fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a drop of soup could he get. But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.

The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage. Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn. The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell. But it was served in a tall jar with a very narrow neck. The Stork could easily get at the food with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the jar, and sniff at the delicious odor. And when the Fox lost his temper, the Stork said calmly:

Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.