By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter VI | The Cowardly Lion | All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and…
By | LYMAN FRANK BAUM | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Chapter V | The Rescue Of The Tin Woodman | When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels. She sat up and looked around…
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…