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| | :*''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'', by [[Robert Frost]] (available at his link here, and also [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening here]) | | :*''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'', by [[Robert Frost]] (available at his link here, and also [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening here]) |
| | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark ''The Hunting of the Snark''], by [[Lewis Carroll]] (this poem has multiple clever rhymes within lines, and a good [[Vocabulary in The Hunting of the Snark|nautical vocabulary]]) | | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark ''The Hunting of the Snark''], by [[Lewis Carroll]] (this poem has multiple clever rhymes within lines, and a good [[Vocabulary in The Hunting of the Snark|nautical vocabulary]]) |
| − | *''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more for girls, but there are three minor grammatical errors in this book). | + | *''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for girls, but there are three minor grammatical errors in this book). |
| − | *''Tom Sawyer'' (retold by Saviour Pirotta, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more for boys) | + | *''Tom Sawyer'' (retold by Saviour Pirotta, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for boys)<ref>Additional books of this series by this publisher, with an easy-to-read font, include ''Robin Hood'', ''Call of the Wild'', and ''Robinson Crusoe''.</ref> |
| | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) | | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) |
| | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). | | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). |