By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter IV | The Road Through The Forest | After a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so difficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow bricks, which were here very…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter III | How Dorothy Saved The Scarecrow | When Dorothy was left alone she began to feel hungry. So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter. She gave some…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter II | The Council With The Munchkins | She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was,…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter I | The Cyclone | Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Introduction | Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter X | In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh A Party And We Say Good-Bye | One day when the sun had come back over the Forest, bringing with it the scent of May, and all the streams of the Forest were…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter IX | In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water | It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old—three, was it, or four?—never had he…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VIII | In Which Christopher Robin Leads An Expotition to The North Pole | One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VII | In Which Kanga And Baby Roo Come To The Forest, And Piglet Has A Bath | Nobody seemed to know where they came from, but there they were in the Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo. When Pooh asked Christopher…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter VI | In Which Eegore Has A Birthday And Gets Two Presents | Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.”Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.” He turned…