Campbell Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables, or Poems

Aesop

Fables: “The Ant and the Grasshopper”; “Belling the Cat”; “The Dog in the Manger”; “The Fox and the Crow”; “The Fox and the Grapes”; “The Hare and the Tortoise”; “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”; “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”; “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

Andersen, Hans Christian

The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories: “The Emperor’s New Clothes”; “The Ugly Duckling”; “The Princess and the Pea”; “The Little Mermaid”; “The Red Shoes”; “The Little Match Girl”; “The Steadfast Tin-Soldier”

Browning, Robert

“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”

Dickinson, Emily

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”; “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”; “I Heard a Fly Buzz”; “I Never Saw a Moor”; “There is no Frigate like a Book”

Doyle, Arthur Conan

A Study in Scarlet; The Hound of the Baskervilles

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

“Concord Hymn” or “Concord Monument Hymn”

Field, Eugene

“The Duel”; “Little Boy Blue”; “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod”

Fleischman, Paul

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

Frost, Robert

“The Road Not Taken”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; “Mending Wall”

Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm

The Complete Fairy Tales: “Cinderella”; “Rapunzel”; “Hansel and Gretel”; “Little Red Riding Hood”; “Snow-White”; “Rumpelstilt-skin”; “Sleeping Beauty”; “Tom Thumb”; “The Golden Goose”

Hale, Edward Everett

“The Man Without a Country”

Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Harte, Bret

“The Luck of Roaring Camp”; “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Twice Told Tales; “Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment”

Hemingway, Ernest

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Henry, O

“The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief”

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

“Old Ironsides”

Howitt, Mary

“The Spider and the Fly”

Hughes, Langston

Montage of a Dream Deferred; “The Weary Blues”; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Irving, Washington

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; “Rip Van Winkle”

Jackson, Shirley

“The Lottery”

Kilmer, Joyce

“Trees”

Kipling, Rudyard

“Fuzzy Wuzzy”; “Gunga Din”

La Fontaine, Jean de

Fables

Lazarus, Emma

“The New Colossus”

Lear, Edward

“The Owl and the Pussycat”

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Evangeline; The Courtship of Miles Standish; The Song of Hiawatha; “Paul Revere’s Ride”; “The Wreck of the Hesperus”

Perrault, Charles

Tales of Mother Goose

Poe, Edgar Allan

“The Cask of Amontillado”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Gold Bug”; “The Masque of the Red Death”; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; “The Pit and the Pendulum”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”; “The Raven”

Potter, Beatrix

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Saxe, John G

“The Blind Men and the Elephant”

Silverstein, Shel

A Light in the Attic; Where the Sidewalk Ends; The Giving Tree; “The Land of Happy”

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

“The Snow in Chelm”

Steinbeck, John

“The Red Pony”

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A Child’s Garden of Verses; “My Shadow”; “The Land of Counter-pane”; “There Was a Little Girl”

Stockton, Frank R.

“The Lady or the Tiger?”

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

“Charge of the Light Brigade”

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence

“Casey at the Bat”

Thurber, James

“The Unicorn in the Garden”; “The Night the Bed Fell”

Twain, Mark

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass; “O Captain, My Captain”

Whittier, John Greenleaf

“Maud Muller”