Stories, Poems, and Songs For Kids!

SHORT STORIES FOR KIDS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Many adults love to curl up with a good book on a rainy afternoon, and every child adores bedtime stories. Short stories take us away from our own world into others filled with surprises, adventures, and fascinating characters and creatures. And if we are not careful, we might just learn something along the way!

• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Aesop's Fables

• The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton

• Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

• Butterflies by Patricia Grace

• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

• Disobedience by A. A. Milne

• The Emperor's New Suit by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain

• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

• The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank Stockton

• How the Leopard Got Its Spots by Rudyard Kipling

• The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

• The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

• The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry

• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

• Sanctuary by Edith Wharton

• A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Sign of the Broken Sword by G.K. Chesterton

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Three Skeleton Key by George Toudouze

• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

• To Build a Fire by Jack London

• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

POEMS FOR KIDS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Rhythm, rhyme, and meter make words come alive to touch our hearts, minds, and souls. Great poetry, whether written centuries ago or very recently, helps us see the world as it truly is. To express joy, sorrow, pain, or love, there is nothing like a good poem!

• A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson

• All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare

• All Things Bright and Beautiful

• A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• As Thro' the Land at Eve We Went by Lord Alfred Tennyson

• A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore

• Birches by Robert Frost

• Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

• George Gray by Edgar Lee Masters

• The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

• I Cannot Go to School Today by Shel Silverstein

• I'm Nobody! Who are You? by Emily Dickinson

• I Wandered Lonely in a Cloud by William Wordsworth

• John 1:1–14 in the King James Version

• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Last Answers by Carl Sandburg

• Lullaby by W. H. Auden

• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold by William Wordsworth

• Ode to Autumn by John Keats

• Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley

• The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

• Psalm 23 in the King James Version

• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

• Saul by Robert Browning

• The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by William Shakespeare

• Us Two by A. A. Milne

• We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

SONGS FOR KIDS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Who among us cannot be found singing a song to express our joy? What couple does not have its own special song? Popular music shapes our hearts and gives voice to our hopes and aspirations. Nothing is more soothing or encouraging than a great song!

• All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

• Amazing Grace by John Newton

• America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates

• A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson

• A Whole New World by Peabo Bryson

• Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe

• Breaking Free from High School Musical

• Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

• Bring Him Home from Les Miserables

• Candle on the Water from Pete's Dragon

• Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley

• Daydream Believer by the Monkees