Curio Class
Grade 4
155 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 4.
Picture books
1 titles · Short, illustrated, made for reading together.Short stories
65 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Helping Hand
Payal Dhar
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Stitch in Time
Himadri Das; Veena Prasad
Around the World With a Chilli
Nayan Chanda
Arya in the Cockpit
Nandita Jayaraj
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Felix Salten
The Beginning of the Armadillos
Rudyard Kipling
The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3)
Carolyn Keene
The Butterfly That Stamped
Rudyard Kipling
The Case of the Missing Water
Shalini Srinivasan
The Cat That Walked by Himself
Rudyard Kipling
Chipko takes root
Jeyanthi Manokaran
The Crab That Played with the Sea
Rudyard Kipling
Creatures of Old
Veena Prasad
The Dragon Tamers
E. Nesbit
The Elephant's Child
Rudyard Kipling
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kastner
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2)
Carolyn Keene
The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2)
Franklin W. Dixon
How Old is Muttajji?
Roopa Pai
How Pintu Found Pi
Sarat Talluri Rao
How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away
Carl Sandburg
How the Alphabet Was Made
Rudyard Kipling
How the Camel Got His Hump
Rudyard Kipling
How the First Letter Was Written
Rudyard Kipling
How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
Carl Sandburg
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
Rudyard Kipling
How the Whale Got His Throat
Rudyard Kipling
The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
E. Nesbit
Kaa's Hunting
Rudyard Kipling
Kaakaasaurus
Shalini Srinivasan
Kali Wants to Dance
Aparna Karthikeyan
Long Live Friendship! A Humorous Play for Children
Meera Dixit
Lost in the Internet
Kris Stokes; Madhurima Chakraborty
Mangalyaan: A Journey to Mars
Nikhil Gulati
Mission Cycle
Rohini Mohan
Mowgli's Brothers
Rudyard Kipling
My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4)
Carolyn Keene
The Mystery of the Cyber Friend
Zac O'Yeah
Only Fools Go to School
Chatura Rao
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
Raju's First Flight
Nandita Jayaraj
The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
The Scavenger Hunt
Ajit Narra
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1)
Carolyn Keene
The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
Rudyard Kipling
Smoky, the Cow Horse
Will James
The Sound of Water
Shalini Srinivasan
Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry
The Tale of the Toilet
Veena Prasad
There's a Hole in my Galaxy
Ananya Dasgupta
The Three Questions
Leo Tolstoy
Tiger! Tiger!
Rudyard Kipling
Tine and the Faraway Mountain
Shikha Tripathi
Toomai of the Elephants
Rudyard Kipling
The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1)
Franklin W. Dixon
Turtle Story
Kartik Shanker
The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
Carl Sandburg
The White Seal
Rudyard Kipling
Who Stole Bhaiya's Smile?
Sanjana Kapur
Poems
13 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
Dreams
Langston Hughes
Fog
Carl Sandburg
From a Railway Carriage
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Jumblies
Edward Lear
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Limericks (set)
Edward Lear
The Pasture
Robert Frost
Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers)
Sara Teasdale (editor)
There is no frigate like a book
Emily Dickinson
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
Myths, fables and folk tales
52 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Arabian Nights (Lang)
Ashputtel
Brothers Grimm
Baba Yaga and the Little Girl with the Kind Heart
Arthur Ransome (retold)
The Badger and the Bear
Zitkala-Sa
Chinese fairy tales (set I)
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
Cinderella
Charles Perrault
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Brothers Grimm
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen
Fables IV: Belling the Cat, and four more
Aesop
Fables V: The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey, and four more
Aesop
Fables VI: The Dog in the Manger, and four more
Aesop
The Fisherman and His Wife
Brothers Grimm
The Fisherman and the Genie
Arabian Nights (Lang)
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Arthur Ransome (retold)
The Frog-Prince
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
Brothers Grimm
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
How We Got the Name 'Spider Tales'
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
Iktomi and the Coyote
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Ducks
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Muskrat
Zitkala-Sa
Indian fairy tales (set)
Joseph Jacobs (collected)
Jack and the Beanstalk
Traditional (Jacobs)
Jack the Giant-Killer
Traditional (Jacobs)
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen
The Mirror of Matsuyama
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
The Nightingale
Hans Christian Andersen
Puss in Boots
Charles Perrault
Rapunzel
Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
Brothers Grimm
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
Shen of the Sea (selected stories)
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
Charles Perrault
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
Snowdrop
Brothers Grimm
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Hans Christian Andersen
The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
Tales from Silver Lands (selected stories)
Charles J. Finger
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
The Toad and the Boy
Zitkala-Sa
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
The Tree-Bound
Zitkala-Sa
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Brothers Grimm
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
The Valiant Little Tailor
Brothers Grimm
West African folk tales (set II)
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
West African folk tales: Anansi and others (set)
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
Whittington and His Cat
Traditional (Jacobs)
Wigwam Evenings: Sioux folk tales (set I)
Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman
The Wild Swans
Hans Christian Andersen
Chapter books and novels
24 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 9)
Franklin W. Dixon
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys 5)
Franklin W. Dixon
Kari the Elephant
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys 4)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys 8)
Franklin W. Dixon
Ozma of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys 7)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys 6)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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