Folk Tales/Mythology/Fairy Tales:
- Aesop’s Fables for Children, by Milo Winter
- A First Book of Myths: Myths and Legends for the Very Young from Around the World, retold by Mary Hoffman
- Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons,” by Joseph Bruchac, Jonathan London
, and Thomas Locker - The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories About Little People,” by John Bierhorst (Ed.) and Ron Hilbert Coy
- Myth-o-Mania series, by Kate McMullan
- Jim Weiss stories on cd
- Sherwood Smith–recommended fantasy books
- “Favorite Medieval Tales” retold by Mary Pope Osborne
- “Oxford Myths and Legends”–Oxford University Press series
- Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age Of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
- With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South by Nancy Van Laan and Scott Cook
Literature:
- books by Edith Nesbit
- SearchLIT (online texts)
Picture Books On Shakespeare–
- Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
- Will’s Quill, or, How a Goose Saved Shakespeare by Don Freeman
- William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki
- All the World’s a Stage, by Rebecca Piatt Davidson
Children’s Illustrated versions of Shakespeare–
- Stories from Shakespeare: Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children” retold by Nicola Baxter (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Antony & Cleopatra)
- “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest” both retold by Bruce Coville
- The Best of Shakespeare” by E. Nesbit (The Merchant of Venice, Tempest, As You Like It and seven others)\
Websites to find info and recordings/movies about Shakespeare–
- Ages of Man, by William Shakespeare (audiobook)
- The Complete Archangel Shakespeare (audiobook)
- Naxos Audio Books
- Fire the Imagination (put Shakespeare in the search box on the site)
- Macbeth DVD
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream DVD
Poetry:
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and Tasha Tudor
- Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear) by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, and X.J. Kennedy
- Poetry Projects