Historical focus: Early World Civilizations, Modern Civilization and Culture, Early American People and Civilizations, Early Exploration and Settlement, The American Revolution, Early Exploration of the American West, Symbols & Figures

• The Boy at the Dike (folktale from Holland) 
• The Frog Prince
• Hansel and Gretel
• selections from The House at Pooh Corner (A. A.Milne)
• How Anansi Got Stories from the Sky God (folktale from West Africa) 
• It Could Always Be Worse (Yiddish folktale)
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Knee-High Man (African-American folktale) 
• Medio Pollito (Hispanic folktale)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin 
• Pinocchio
• The Princess and the Pea 
• Puss-in-Boots
• Rapunzel 
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)