Slade Morrison
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
Little Cloud does not want to join the other clouds in terrorizing the earth with storms, but grows lonely and longs to look closer at mountains and seas, until Lady Wind makes her dream come true.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
Jamey Tortoise is smarter than anyone else and Jimi Hare is faster, but when a race is announced each consults a reporter about how to get what he really wants when and if he should win in this updated twist on the familiar fable.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Offers a humorous and insightful look at how children experience meanness and anger in our world...To a child, meanness can have many shapes, sizes, and sounds. The wise young narrator shows that meanness can be a whisper or a shout, a smile or a frown as the list of mean people grows to include parents, siblings, and bullies of several varieties"--
6) The Big Box
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Patty and Mickey and Liza Sue live in a big brown box. It has carpets, curtains and beanbag chairs. And the door has three biglocks.In this first story for children by Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison, parents and teachers and adults determine the boundaries of personal freedom for Patty.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.
9) The big box
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.
11) Who's got game?
Author
Language
English
Description
Three of Aesop's original fables are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined: the victim might not lose; the timid get a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. Anything can happen in a play on these classic fables.
Author
Language
English
Description
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages. We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aaesop's fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined: the victim might not lose; the timid get a chance to become strong;...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Who's got game? The proud lion left helpless by a thorn in his paw or the meek mouse who rescues the big cat and appoints himself king of the jungle? In the Morrisons' rendition, the story's timeless moral is revitalized with a clever new spin.