Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September

The Caterpillar

Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry,
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk,
Or what not,
Which may be the chosen spot.
No toad spy you,
Hovering bird of prey pass by you;
Spin and die,
To live again a butterfly.

	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 Frogs Who Wished for a King

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. No milk and water government for them, they declared. So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

"How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."

Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.