Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky

The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.

He bites it, day by day,

Until there's but a rim of scraps

That crumble all away.

The South Wind is a baker.

He kneads clouds in his den,

And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy

North . . . Wind . . . eats . . . again!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 27	The Fight between Pinocchio and His Companions from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Androclus and the Lion from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Fisherman Robbed from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Days of Chivalry from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	"Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 1 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Brave Young Prince from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Reading the London Company's Orders from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith a Member of the Council from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Forced To Remain Aboard from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Uses of Crabs from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Wolf and His Shadow from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make an Umbrella from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Little Black Ant from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Bobby Coon Enters the Wrong House from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	More Education from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown	Daisies by Frank Dempster Sherman		The Dumb Soldier by Robert Louis Stevenson	All But Blind by Walter de la Mare	The Succession of the Four Sweet Months by Robert Herrick	Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Tortoise and the Ducks

The Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.

After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by, always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad and discontented. He wanted to see the world too, and there he was with a house on his back and little short legs that could hardly drag him along.

One day he met a pair of Ducks and told them all his trouble.

"We can help you to see the world," said the Ducks. "Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside. But keep quiet or you will be sorry."

The Tortoise was very glad indeed. He seized the stick firmly with his teeth, the two Ducks took hold of it one at each end, and away they sailed up toward the clouds.

Just then a Crow flew by. He was very much astonished at the strange sight and cried:

"This must surely be the King of Tortoises!"

"Why certainly—" began the Tortoise.

But as he opened his mouth to say these foolish words he lost his hold on the stick, and down he fell to the ground, where he was dashed to pieces on a rock.

Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.