Selections for reading aloud from poems, novels, and plays by Blake, Longfellow, O. Henry, Twain, Shakespeare, Poe, and other well-known authors.

(Ages 5- up): Brave tin soldier ; Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- Kitten at play / William Wordsworth -- The lamb / William Blake -- Aladdin and the wonderful lamp -- Pied piper of Hamelin / adapted from poem by Robert Browning -- Owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear -- Open road (from Wind and the willows) / Kenneth Grahame -- Wynken, Blynken and Nod / Eugene Field -- My bed is a boat / Robert L. Stevenson -- Dick Whittington and his cat -- Hiawatha's childhood (from Song of Hiawatha) / H.W. Longfellow -- Pandora's box (from A wonder book) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood -- On the meaning of words (from Alice through the looking glass) / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll.