Open Court
Grade 2
Sharing Stories
027 Gre
Greene, Carol. At the
library. [Eden Prairie, Minn.] : Child's
World, c1999. Simple text
introduces the activities, users,
employees, and contents of a public
library.
398.2 Gal
Galdone, Paul. The three little
pigs. New York : Clarion,
c1970. Retells the fatal episodes
in the lives of two
foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the
same.
398.2 Hoo
Hooks, William H. The three
little pigs and the fox. 1st
American ed. New York : London :
Macmillan ; Collier
Macmillan, c1989. In this
Appalachian version of the
classic tale, Hamlet, the youngest pig, rescues her two
greedy brothers from the clutches of the "mean, tricky old
drooly-mouth fox.".
E Blo
Bloom, Becky. Wolf! 1st American ed. New York : Orchard Books,
1999. A wolf learns to read in
order to impress a group of
farmyard animals he has met.
E Bra
Bradby, Marie. More than anything
else. New York : Orchard
Books, c1995. Nine-year-old
Booker works with his father
and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when
he'll be able to read.
E Bru
Bruss, Deborah. Book! book!
book! 1st ed. New York : Arthur A.
Levine Books, 2001. When the
children go back to school,
the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the
library in town trying to find something to do.
E Bun
Bunting, Eve, 1928-. The
Wednesday surprise. New York : Clarion
Books, c1989. On Wednesday nights
when Grandma stays with
Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read.
E Dee
Deedy, Carmen Agra. The library
dragon. Atlanta : Peachtree,
1994. Miss Lotta Scales is a
dragon who believes her job is
to protect the school's library books from the children, but
when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read,
the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
E Kel
Kellogg, Steven. The three little
pigs. New York : Morrow
Junior Books, c1997. In this
retelling of a well-known
tale, Serafina Sow starts her own waffle-selling business in
order to enable her three offspring to prepare for the
future, which includes an encounter with a surly wolf.
E Mar
Marshall, James, 1942-. Three up
a tree. 1st ed. New York :
Dial Books for Young Readers, c1986.
Sam and Spider build a
tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.
E Mar
Marshall, Edward. Three by the
sea. New York : Dial Press,
c1981. Three friends relax after
their picnic lunch by each
telling his or her best story.
E Mor
Mora, Pat. Tomás and the library
lady. New York : Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, c1997.
While helping his
family in their work as migrant laborers far from their
home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at
the local public library.
E Tom
Tompert, Ann. Grandfather Tang's
story. 1st ed. New York :
Crown Publishers, c1990.
Grandfather tells a story about
shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until
a hunter brings danger to both of them.
E Wie
Wiesner, David. The three
pigs. New York : Clarion Books,
c2001. The three pigs escape the
wolf by going into another
world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that
jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
F Ali
Aliki. Painted words :
Marianthe's story, one ; Spoken memories
: Marianthe's story, two. 1st
ed. New York : Greenwillow
Books, c1998. Two separate
stories, the first telling of
Mari's starting school in a new land, and the second
describing village life in her country before she and her
family left in search of a better life.
F Pat
Patron, Susan. Maybe yes, maybe
no, maybe maybe. New York :
Orchard Books, c1993. When her
hardworking mother decides
to move, eight-year-old PK uses her imagination and
storytelling to help her older and younger sisters adjust.
PB e
Lobel, Arnold. Mouse Tales.
SC Ass
Told under the blue umbrella.
[New York] : Macmillan, 1933. A
collection of realistic stories for children from two to
eight years of age.
VC
Storytelling.