Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

The Land of Counterpane

When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.

And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.

I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 31	Pinocchio Grows a Pair of Donkey Ears from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Damon and Pythias from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	The Warblers Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Giant and the Birds (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Maid of Orleans from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Big Bear (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Cave Homes from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Golden Fever from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Ducks and Oysters from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Ladybird's Children from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Crow and the Pitcher from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Learn to Bake and Am Prosperous from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Little Two Eyes from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Peter Rabbit Sends Out Word from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	A New Grandfather from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell	If All Were Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti		Sometimes by Rose Fyleman	Voices by Walter de la Mare	The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt	Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf

A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.

One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.

His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf! Wolf!"

As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.

A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.

In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Wolf!" But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.

The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.

Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.