Robby Plants Trees to Celebrate Arbor Day
Seven year old Robby Trevitt cannot attend school due to illness but celebrates Arbor Day by planting acorns along a country road. He waters them with help from a Bee Woman and is met by a new superintendent who confirms his father’s worth and praises the boy’s effort. Robby returns home tired yet joyful, the day postponed for all to next week, and his family shares the good news.
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Robby
Y Morris
Washington
Father
Trevitt
Night Changes Play Time For Dreaming Ahead
A poetic piece contrasts night and day, urging children to sleep at bedtime. It imagines nighttime as a barrier to daytime activities and encourages dreaming about tomorrow’s plans. The verse uses simple rhymes about yawning and morning possibilities.
The Fidventurers By Hannan G Fenxard
The speaker recalls a Sailor-man and a Warrior going to sea and battle. They vow to return, and the narrator hopes to be held by both when night falls. The verse frames love, longing, and departure as two merry lads at the gates.
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Belor
Dlory
The Little Wanderer Pete the Pigeon Returns Home
A homing pigeon named Pete shipped from San Francisco to Auckland across eight thousand miles finds his way home unaided. He escapes at Auckland, rides a ship to San Francisco, then travels by land and sea, finally returning to his home loft aboard the Lucy Belle. The story, celebrated by ship crews, credits Pete’s cleverness and a tagged identification on his leg.
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San Francisco
Auckland
New Zealand
Great Barrier Island
Pete
Peter
Hawaii
Samoan Islands
San Francisco Bay
Lucy Belle
Cause and Effect by Margaret Mutts poem
A reckless Zephyr speeds along and collides with Black Cloud spilling a thunder shower. Two girls walk hand in hand as rain falls and they cry. One recalls a spiteful fairy knocking the plug from the Sky.
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Zephyr
A Picture By Mary Stuart Beth Ove
On an autumn morning two tiny lovers appear a sweet maid and her twin brother. The poem describes their features eyes noses mouths and tiny bodies with a playful tone and ends noting no truer lovers than the two children.
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Fidventurers
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Little Wanderer
BY Ross B. Franklin
Margaret Mutts
Mary Stuart Beth
Ander
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Ras van Zald
Gueney- Sani
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