Series 2 consists of two semesters of materials, including:

• Student anthologies:
  12 selections in each book. See the First Semester and Second Semester reading lists below.
• Teacher's Editions:
  Complete student readings with suggested discussion questions, lesson plans and activiites, copies of student activity pages
• Activity pages:
  Ready-to-use classroom sets of student activity pages for each interpretive activity
• Audiotapes:
  Professional recordings of each story in the series

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Series Two, First Semester Contents

THE HAPPY LION
Louise Fatio

THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
Beatrix Potter

HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP
Rudyard Kipling

KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST, AND PIGLET HAS A BATH
(from WINNIE-THE-POOH)  A. A. Milne

ARAP SANG AND THE CRANESAfrican folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

BLUE MOOSE
Daniel Manus Pinkwater

ANANCY AND DOG AND PUSS AND FRIENDSHIPWest Indian folktale as told by  James Berry

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs

THE MAGIC LISTENING CAP
Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

THE JACKAL AND THE PARTRIDGE
Punjabi folktale as told Flora Annie Steel

NAIL SOUP
Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm

THE APPLE OF CONTENTMENT
Howard Pyle

Series Two, Second Semester

THE RED BALLOON
Albert Lamorisse

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL
Elizabeth Coatsworth

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
Hans Christian Andersen

HOW THE ELEPHANT BECAME
Ted Hughes

ANANSI'S FISHING EXPEDITION
West African folktale as told Harold Courlander and George Herzog

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
Margery Williams

THE TERRIBLE LEAK
Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

THE SINGING TORTOISE
West African folktale as told Harold Courlander and George Herzog

THREE BOYS WITH JUGS OF MOLASSES AND SECRET AMBITIONS
Carl Sandburg

CINDERELLA
Charles Perrault

THE MOUSE'S BRIDE
Indian folktale as told by Lucia Turnbull

HOW COYOTE STOLE THE SUN
Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Curry

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