Suggested as a Waldorf Reader for Late Fourth Grade
Illustrations by Ausa M. Peacock

American hero legends & poems from African & European traditions

Part of a five book series with over 125 multi-cultural stories and poems that
complement the pedagogical intentions of the language arts curriculum.
Progressively controlled and increasingly rich sight and phonetic vocabulary
development from story to story and book to book. Progressively developing
sentence structures from story to story.
All stories are designed for forty-five minute periods, including instruction and
discussion time.
Grade four book introduces the reading of non-standard English and various
narrative voices, as well as seeding the legendary backgrounds that enrich the
grade five geography curriculum.