Wider than the sky (The Bookmark reading series. Literature readers)

by Margaret Early and SARA KRENTZMAN SRYGLEY

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007H4386
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.

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Vintage schoolbook...Elementary School Level

Stories and poems are: Hay-Food, Straw Food by Eric Berry; The Sabbath by Sydney Taylor, Miguel by Joseph Krumgold, The Pioneer by Arthur Gutterman, Off to Oregon by Miriam Mason, The Dozier Brothers by Arna Bontemps, A Morning with Shorty by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, Danger in the Lagoon by William Lipkind, If Humility and Purity Be Not in the Heart by T.S. Eliot, 2 by Edward Lear, A Tutor Who Tooted the Flute by Carolyn Wells, Some traditional ones by anonymous authors like Get Up and Bar the Door, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Robin Hood and Allan A Dale; Paul Revere's Ride by Henry W. Longfellow, The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith, The Bird's Nest by John Drinkwater, The Spring by Rose Fyleman, Prairie Dog Town by Mary Austin, A Time to Talk by Robert Frost, Red Rooster by Hilda Conkling, The Night Will Never Stay by Eleanor Farjeon, Check by James Stephens, The Snowflake & Done For by Walter De La Mare, To An Orchard Near London by Jan Struther, Nancy Hanks by Rosemary and Stephen Benet, A Horse Would Tire by Elizabeth Coatsworth, Slowly by James Reeves, There was a Young Lady of Niger (Anon), Who's In by Elizabeth Fleming, Water by Hilda Conkling, Dawn by Paul Laurence Dunbar, To A Squirrel at Kyle-na-no by William Butler Yeats, Molly Malone (Anon), APril Spring Song by Langston Hughes, Lone Dog by Irene McLeod, The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky by Vachel Lindsay, Washington by Nancy Byrd Turner, The Master Cat by Charles Perrault, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Kipling, The Rhinoceros by Hilaire Belloc, Why the Sea is Salt by Virginia Haviland, A Good Man and His Good Wife by Ruth Krauss, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Brothers Grimm), THe Loudest Noise in the World by Benjamin Elkin, Extremes by James WHitcomb Riley, The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl, The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans C. Andersen, The Bear in the Pear Tree by Alice Geer Kelsey, Grizzly Bear by Mary Austin, The Three Wishes by Eleanore M. Jewett, The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash, Juan Bobo and the Queen's NEcklace by Pura Belpre, Don't Blame Me! by Richard Hughes, The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin, Raising a Dinosaur by Oliver Butterworth, The Princess and the Pea by Hans C. Andersen, A New Citizen of Krakatoa by William Pene Du Bois, Eddie's Boa Constrictor by Carolyn Haywood, Uncle Lucky Saves Maria by Jerome Beatty, Jr., Help! by Mary Malone, The Night Wanderer by Heinrich Hoffman, The Maid of Timbuctoo by Laura E. Richards, George & Rebecca by Hilaire Belloc, Nothing New Under the Sun Hardly & THe Hide A Ride by Robert McCloskey; Androcles and the Lion, Aladdin and the WOnderful Lamp retold by Charles Mozley, The Six Horsemen retold by Frances Carpenter, Robin Hood Enters the Shooting Match at Nottingham TOwn by Howard Pyle, Stanzas fromA Song of Sherwood by Alfred Noyes. 402 pages.