Little Dramas for Primary Grades

by Ada M. Skinner; Lillian Nixon Lawrence

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		[159]
The Lion and the Story-teller		[169]
Over the Hill	George MacDonald	[174]