Added by: orchiddl | Karma: 2026.12 | Fiction literature | 18 February 2010
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American Fairy Tales
American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve little known fairy tales by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, one year after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Abby concocts comical and innovative strategies to get glasses. She thinks glasses make her best friend Rosa look beautiful. In the quest to have glasses like Rosa, Abby invents a multitude of ingenious ways to getting the glasses she so dearly desires. What one person might dislike about themselves may be just the thing that someone else would envy. Abby grows in appreciation of her own uniqueness. Reading Level: Grade K-4
Rosa wants freckles just like her friend Abby. How can she get them? Maybe chocolate pudding will do the trick! How about some mud puddle dots? Big sister's makeup? Rosa comes to realize that she might have something that is just as good as the longed–for freckles. Reading Level: Grade K-4
Most of us love reading about crime in the newspapers, and reading stories about Sherlock Holmes and the other great detectives. This book looks at some of the great crimes of history - crimes like the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Mona Lisa robbery. It also looks at some great criminals, like the poisoner Dr Crippen. Most of these crimes were solved, but some, like the assassination of President Kennedy, still hold their mysteries.
Then Shylock laughed and said, 'But now let's have a little joke. If you don't pay me back 3,000 gold pieces at the end of three months, you must give me a pound of your flesh. I'll cut the flesh from a part of your body, as I like. Do you agree ?'
