Little Dramas for Primary Grades

CONTENTS

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Bunny Rabbit		7
The Odd Man and the Dog True		14
The Owl and Grasshopper Green		19
Somewhere Town	Kate Greenaway	21
The Timid Hare		22
Mabel and the Green Lizard	Adapted	26
The Maiden and the Bird	Lydia Maria Child	32
The Little Fish	African Fable	35
Belling the Cat		37
The Fox and the Crow		40
Hans and Gretchen		41
Lady Moon	Lord Houghton	50
Precocious Piggy	Thomas Hood	52
Strange Lands	Laurence Alma-Tadema	56
How to get a Breakfast		58
The Little Christmas Tree	Adapted from an Old Story	60
Christmas Eve in an Attic		65
The New Year	Adapted from Laura E. Richards	73
A Friendship Declined		77
The Selfish Man		79
The Magpie’s Nest		83
Adventures of the First Spring		86
The Bird’s Nest	Lydia Maria Child	93
The Boastful Bamboo Tree	Japanese Fable	100
Return of Spring		105
Who holds up the Sky?	Adapted	110
The Fox’s Plan		114
Tom and the Lobster	Adapted	117
Why the Jellyfish has No Shell	Oriental Fable	119
I would like You for a Comrade	Judge Parry	132
Southwest Wind’s Visit to Gluck	Adapted from John Ruskin	134
The Child and the Sparrow	Thomas Westwood	143
The Rabbit’s Message	German Tale	145
Laughing Sanja	Japanese Folk Story	150
The Tiger and the Brahman		Clyx.com