Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Literature Experience, Level 2: Silly Things

Theme 1: The Best Friends Club - My First American Friend, by Sarunna Jin; Ira Says Goodbye, by Bernard Waber; Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend from The Stories Julian Tells, by Ann Cameron; Poetry - What Johnny Told Me, by John Ciardi; Two Friends, by Nikki Giovanni; Since Hanna Moved Away, by Judith Viorst; Theme Books: Henry and Mudge, by Cynthia Rylant, Everett Anderson's Friend, by Lucille Clifton; Meet the Poet - Jeff Moss, In Between; Moving; If I Find a Penny; Cow in the City. Theme 2: Funny Business - The Wolf's Chicken Stew, by Keiko Kasza, The Portrait, by Ivar Da Coll, Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish; Poetry: My Fat Cat, by Charlotte Pomerantz; The Folk Who Live in Backward Town, by Mary Ann Hoberman; A Puppy, by Oliver Herford; Eletelephony, by Laura E. Richards, Banananananananana, by William Cole; At the Beach, by John Ciardi; There Was a Sad Pig with a Tail, by Arnold Lobel; Once in the Streets of Caracas, by Maria Etena Walsh; Theme Books: Monkey-Monkey's Trick, by Patricia McKissack; Swamp Monsters, by Mary Blount Christian. Theme 3: The World of Information - Do You Know About Stars? by Mae Blacker Freeman; Dinosaur Time, by Peggy Parish; Martin Luther King, Jr., by David A. Adler; Theme Books: Fiesta! by June Behrens; The Biggest, Smallest, Fastest, Tallest Things You've Ever Heard Of, by Robert Lopshire; Reading Social Studies: Neighbors and Neighborhoods; Glossary