Classics for Young Readers, Volume 4A

By: John Holdren

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Synopsis: Lessons learned: Child's play; Chanticleer and the fox; The bear boy; The king and his hawk; It could always be worse; The green glass ball -- Trickster tales: How bear lost his tail; From tiger to anansi; Brer Rabbit gets Brer Fox's dinner; Brer Rabbit goes back to Mr. Man's garden -- Stories from the Bible: Noah and the ark: Joseph and his brothers; The story of Moses -- Life stories: Louis Pasteur, battle with death; Elizabeth Blackwell, a pioneering physician; Sir Alexander Fleming, the accident that changed the world -- A patchwork of people: Some people; Thoughts on talkers; Ten kinds; Going too far; Eat-it-all Elaine; Jimmy Jet and his TV set; Jonathan Bing; The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee; Rhinos purple, hippos green; Since Hanna moved away; Pete at the zoo -- Stories in verse: Daddy fell into the pond; Millions of strawberries; The elf and the dormouse; The leak in the dike; Adventures of Isabel; Mummy slept late and Daddy fixed breakfast; Hiawatha's childhood.