Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.


The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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Week 15 Tom Plays, Fights, and Hides from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain How the Princess Elizabeth Became a Prisoner from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Fleece from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre A Welcome Visit from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge Robert Clive from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Princess Who Had But One Accomplishment from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Cripple at the Pool and the Withered Hand from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Rurik the Norseman from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan The Spring Running from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp The Early French Explorers from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Tortoise and the Geese from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Her Sting from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Little Miner from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Hark! Hark! The Lark! by William Shakespeare A Song by James Whitcomb Riley The Shell by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Fairies by William Allingham The Fountain from Poems by James Russell Lowell The Jumblies by Edward Lear Apr 10
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fisherman and the Little Fish

A poor Fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but very small fry. The Fisherman was about to put it in his basket when the little Fish said:

"Please spare me, Mr. Fisherman! I am so small it is not worth while to carry me home. When I am bigger, I shall make you a much better meal."


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But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket. "How foolish I should be," he said, "to throw you back. However small you may be, you are better than nothing at all."

A small gain is worth more than a large promise.