Friday, April 10, 2009

HEY! LISTEN TO THIS Stories to Read Aloud

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By Jim Trelease
Published by Penguin Books, 1992
ISBN 0140146539, 9780140146530
414 pages Ages 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Jim Trelease's "New Read-Aloud Handbook" led millions of people to discover the special experience of reading aloud to children. In "Hey! Listen to This, " Trelease brings together forty-eight read-aloud stories that parents and teachers can share with children ages five through nine. His choices range from folktales "( Uncle Remus, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and the Indian Cinderella )" to classic favorites by such wonderful children's authors as Roald Dahl "( James and the Giant Peach ), " E.B. White "( Charlotte's Web), " Beverly Cleary "( Ramona the Pest ), " C.S. Lewis "( The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), " and L.Frank Baum "(Ozma of Oz )." In addition, Trelease has written a special introduction to each story and makes suggestions for further reading.

HEY! LISTEN TO THIS

• • CONTENTS • •

TELL ME A STORY

  • "The Gunniwolf" retold by Wilhelmina Harper
  • "Little Green Riding Hood" by Gianni Rodari
  • Wolf Story by William McCleery (novel chapter)

TALES FROM LONG AGO

  • "Noah's Friends" by Marc Gellman, from Does God Have a Big Toe?
  • "The Tortoise and the Hare" retold from Aesop

SCHOOL DAYS

  • "Joe" by Louis Sachar, from Sideways Stories from Wayside School (novel chapter)
  • "Ramona's Great Day" by Beverly Cleary, from Ramona the Pest (novel chapter)
  • "A Room Without Windows or Doors" by Edith Fisher Hunter, from Child of the Silent Night (novel chapter)
  • "Cheating" by Susan Shreve, from Family Secrets

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

  • "Bavsi's Feast" by Adele Geras
  • "Meet Henry Green" and "A Strange Feeling" by Robert Kimmel Smith, from Chocolate Fever (novel chapter)
  • "The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey, from Homer Price (novel chapter)

FAMILIES

  • "Alexander," by June Epstein
  • "Captain Cook," by Richard and Florence Atwater, from Mr. Popper's Penguins (novel chapter)
  • "The Pudding Like A Night on the Sea" by Ann Cameron, from The Stories Julian Tells
  • "The Fish Angel" by Myron Levoy, from The Witch of Fourth Street and Other Stories
  • "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander
  • "Greyling" by Jane Yolen

FOLK AND FAIRY TALES

  • "Unanana and the Elephant" retold by Kathleen Arnott
  • "Brer Rabbit Gets Even" retold by Julius Lester, from The Tales of Uncle Remus
  • "The Indian Cinderella" retold by Cyrus Macmillan
  • "Ah Mee's Invention" retold by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, from Shen of the Sea
  • "The Emperor's New Clothes" retold from Hans Christian Andersen
  • "The Search for the Magic Lake" by Genevieve Barlow
  • "The Magic Thread" author unknown

ANIMAL TALES

  • "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
  • "Before Breakfast" by E. B. White, from Charlotte's Web (novel chapter)
  • Bambi by Felix Salten (novel chapter)
  • "My Early Home" and "The Hunt" by Anna Sewell, from Black Beauty (novel chapter)
  • "Not for Sale" and "I Never Want Another Dog" by Eric Knight, from Lassie Come-Home(novel chapter)
  • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, (novel chapter)
  • Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (novel chapter)

GIGANTIC CREATURES

  • "The Story of Giant Kippernose" by John Cunliffe
  • "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
  • "The Moon's Revenge" by Joan Aiken

FANTASY LANDS

CHILDREN OF COURAGE

  • "The Boy Who Stopped the Sea" retold by Louis Untermeyer, from The World's Great Stories
  • The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (novel chapter)
  • The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (novel chapter)
  • "I'm going to Get Me Some Big Words" and "A Dream Begins to Grow" by Margaret Davidson, from I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

ORPHANS OF THE STORM

  • Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel chapter)
  • "The Story of Holly and Ivy" by Rumer Godden
  • "Aunt Harriet Has a Cough" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, from Understood Betsy (novel chapter)

CLASSIC TALES

  • "The Golden Touch" retold from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book
  • "The Pied Piper" retold from Joseph Jacobs and Andrew Lang, with poetry excerpts from Robert Browning
  • "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" retold from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book

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