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A collection of fables by La Fontaine, including “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse,” “The Rat and the Elephant,” and “The Grasshopper and the Ant.”
Guided Reading Level: J

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Lexile Level: 700

When the birds have a contest to see which one can fly the highest, the eagle thinks he has the contest won until he sees a small wren fly even higher, and everyone learns a valuable lesson about cooperation.
Lexile Level: 420

After years of raising an eagle as a chicken, a South African farmer is challenged by his friend to return it to the wild, so they bring the eagle to the mountain top to see if it still knows how to live free and fly after all the time that has passed.

Insecure about his personal identity and lacking in self-esteem, a little cricket living at Swampswallow Pond dreams of metamorphosis into a magnificent butterfly.
Lexile Level: 540

The persistence of Henrietta, one of 3,333 chickens on a chicken farm, leads to a better life for them all.
Lexile Level: 630

A rich collection of animal fables and folktales brings togethers traditional stories and lore from native American, Eskimo, African, European, and Indian cultures.

A little frog is upset when his simple life is changed by such things as other animals moving in nearby, but during an unexpected adventure away from the pond he learns that change can be good, after all.
Lexile Level: 640

When three colorful frogs find a strange pebble, they decide it is a chicken egg, but when a baby alligator hatches instead, the trio is surprised when the baby’s mother appears to be reunited with her offspring.
Lexile Level: 520

Tells the stories of a selfish lion, lovesick ostrich, greedy hippopotamus, vain rhinoceros, proud camel, the timid duck sisters, and others, and the lessons that they learned.
Lexile Level: 540
Guided Reading Level: N

Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit.

A nervous little rabbit hears a strange crashing sound and starts a nearly disastrous stampede of animals when he decides the earth must be breaking up.
Lexile Level: 430

When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
Lexile Level: 540

The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.
Lexile Level: 560

Determined to prove that the sun will rise without Dudley’s cock-a-doodle-doo, Gunther, a nasty goose, exposes the rooster as a fake and drives him away, but the next day the sun never rises.
Lexile Level: 570

A brightly illustrated book by the creators of The Stinky Cheese Man provides an amusing collection of contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals that address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.
Lexile Level: 650
Guided Reading Level: NR