Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for August


The Purple Cow

I never saw a purple cow.

I never hope to see one.

But I can tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one.

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Week 28 Pinocchio Is in Danger of Being Fried from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Horatius at the Bridge from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Fishing Party from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum Queen of the Adriatic from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge "Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 2 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saul's Great Sin and His Great Loss from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Exploring the Country from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
People Land from the Ships from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Smith Proven Innocent from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Helping Mother Oriole from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Oak and the Reeds from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Have a Perilous Adventure from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Lambikin from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Bobby Coon Is Waked Up from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess Ginseng from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Queen Mab by Thomas Hood The Fly-Away Horse by Eugene Field   A Sad Little Lass by Margaret Johnson King David by Walter de la Mare Hiawatha's Sailing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Lesson of Mercy by Alice Cary
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.


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The Hare and the Tortoise