It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things--about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the…
Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He traveled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, man…
It is 1607. Tom Creek's pirate boat, The Black Star, goes down in the sea. Tom Creek loses all his treasure. As the boat goes down he shouts, " This is my treasure and no other man's. I curse t…
Hank Morgan is the boss of a factory in Connecticut. One day in 1879 Hank is working in his office. One of his workers comes in and says, " Come quickly, Bos! Two-man are fighting." Hank wants t…
This is the story of a poor, ugly man. Nobody loved him, everyone laughed at him. They put him in a cage, like an animal at the zoo. Then one day a doctor saw him and thought, "This poor man is i…
Dorothy lives in Kansas, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she…
We all know how difficult love can be. When you meet someone you like, there are so many things that can go wrong, sometimes because you are trying too hard, sometimes because of a misunderstandin…
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Hart and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important…
When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai …
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a…