Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

The Cupboard

I know a little cupboard,
With a teeny tiny key,
And there's a jar of Lollypops
For me, me, me.

It has a little shelf, my dear,
As dark as dark can be,
And there's a dish of Banbury Cakes
For me, me, me.

I have a small fat grandmamma,
With a very slippery knee,
And she's the Keeper of the Cupboard
With the key, key, key.

And when I'm very good, my dear,
As good as good can be,
There's Banbury Cakes, and Lollypops
For me, me, me.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 35	What Pinocchio Finds in the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Diogenes the Wise Man from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Invention of Printing from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Lost in a Forest (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Captain Smith Gains Authority from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Disagreeable Measures of Discipline from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Signs of Rebellion from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Box Turtle from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Two Goats from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Explore My Cave Further from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Hillman and the Housewife from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Prickly Porky Makes Himself at Home from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Fire Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	My Lady Wind, Anonymous	What Does the Bee Do? by Christina Georgina Rossetti		The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll	The Window by Walter de la Mare	Ladybird, Ladybird! by Caroline Bowles Southey	A Song by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Crow

One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead. This was by no means the first Crow the Fox had ever seen. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak.

"No need to search any farther," thought sly Master Fox. "Here is a dainty bite for my breakfast."

Up he trotted to the foot of the tree in which the Crow was sitting, and looking up admiringly, he cried, "Good-morning, beautiful creature!"

The Crow, her head cocked on one side, watched the Fox suspiciously. But she kept her beak tightly closed on the cheese and did not return his greeting.

"What a charming creature she is!" said the Fox. "How her feathers shine! What a beautiful form and what splendid wings! Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect. Could she sing just one song, I know I should hail her Queen of Birds."

Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast. She wanted very much to be called Queen of Birds.

So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth.

"Thank you," said Master Fox sweetly, as he walked off. "Though it is cracked, you have a voice sure enough. But where are your wits?"

The flatterer lives at the expense of those who will listen to him.