&&000 CANADIAN SCHOOLBOOKS                                                                   CA702.TXT
GRADE 2, 1970s
SAMPLES DRAWN FROM OISE/UT  TORONTO Dec 9-10, 2003 by dph
          With help of Kathy Imrie OISE reference librarian   knowledgable of the Ontario
           Schoolbook archive
1ST EDIT BY DPH 22 dec 2003
Re-edited 21 June 2005


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"I am looking for work to do and a
place to live," said =Rinaldo. "I would like to work here, but I'm too small. I would like to work
in a circus, but I cannot dance. I don't know what I'm going to do next."
"You should go to the forest," said the bird. "That is where the "other rabbits live."
"Where is the forest?" asked =Rinaldo.
"It's not far from here," answered the bird.
"I would like to go to the forest," said =Rinaldo. "Will you please tell me how to get there?"
"Yes," answered the bird. "You go up the street and over the hill."
=Rinaldo thanked the little bird and the kangaroo for helping him.
"Come back and see us some time," said the kangaroo.
"Goodbye! Goodbye!" cried all the animals. =Rinaldo said good-bye to the animals in the zoo.
Then off he went to look for the forest.



When Mr =Fox and Mr =Bear came through the forest, they saw the wishing pot, too.
"Look, Mr =Bear," said the fox. "There are words on this pot. They say Magic Wishing
Pot."
"So they do," said the bear. "Let's wish for
something. Mr =Fox, you go first."
"I shall wish for a tail," said the fox.
"But you have a tail," said the bear. "Why
do you want another one?
"This one is too small," answered the fox. "I want a bigger and better tail."
"Do you want two tails?" asked the bear.
"Yes," answered the fox. "I want my own tail for every day and a bigger and better one for
Sunday."
Mr =Fox spoke to the pot. "I wish for a bigger and better tail!" he said.
The pot began to dance about. Then out of it came seven big carrots.
"Carrots!" cried the fox. "Seven of them!"

Mr =Best laughed. "My new talking bird plays tricks on everyone when I am out to lunch," he
said.
"Out to lunch, out to lunch, out to lunch," said the big green bird.
The children laughed. "It would be fun
to have a talking bird for a pet," said =Susan.
"It's time for the pets to eat," said Mr =Best. "=Susan, you may give the fish their food. =Robin,
you may give the rabbits their carrots."
"I have some bananas for the monkey," said =Peter. "May I give them to him?"
"Just one banana," said Mr =Best. "That's all he should have for lunch."
The children gave the pets their food. When they were ready to go home, they said good-bye to
Mr =Best. As they were going out the door, they heard the bird say, "Come again, come again,
come again."
The children laughed. "We will, we will, we will," they called back.
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The three =Indians took the buckets and went into the forest. When they came to the first big
maple tree, they stopped. =SilverCloud's father made a small hole in the tree. He put a bucket
under the hole. Sap began to come from the tree. =SilverCloud's father made holes in the other
maple trees.
The =Indians left the buckets and went home. The next day when they came back, some of the
buckets were full.
=SilverCloud's mother made a big fire and put some stones in it. Soon the boy came to the fire
with two buckets of sap. He put the sap into the big log by the fire. Then he went back for more
sap.
As =SilverCloud walked through the maple trees, he heard a voice calling to him. He looked up
and saw his friend. "Hello, Grey Squirrel," he said. "Would you like to have some maple sap?"


"We cannot stay here," said a bear.
"There is not enough food on this island. We must find a new place to live."
=SilverCloud spoke to the animals. "Where will you go?" he asked.
"We cannot go back to our old forest," said a rabbit. "We must find a new place where the grass
is green."
"We must leave at once," said a wolf.
The animals thanked =SilverCloud for helping them. One by one they left the island. The grey
squirrel did not leave with the other animals. He wanted to stay with the =Indians.
"The fire was not our friend," said =SilverCloud. "It took our homes from us."
"The summer wind was not our friend. It helped the fire," said =SilverCloud's mother.
"The water was our friend," said =SilverCloud's father. "It made us safe from the fire."


As soon as the frog had heard her promise, he went down into the water. Down, down, down he
went. When he came up again, he was holding the golden ball. He jumped out of the well and
dropped the ball on the grass beside the princess. She picked it up and ran off through the garden.
"Wait!" called the frog. "Wait! You must not leave me. I have not told you what I want."
The princess came back to the well. "Hurry Tell me what you want," she said.
"I want to come to live with you in the palace," answered the frog.
"No! No!" cried the princess. "You shall never come to live with me. Never! Never You are just
an ugly green frog."
The princess left the frog beside the well. She ran quickly up the path, holding the golden ball.
She did not stop running until she was inside the palace.

Long ago, on a cold winter morning, an old man was walking in the forest. He stopped to pick up
some sticks for firewood. As he did so, he dropped one of his mittens. He walked on through the
forest.
After a time, a mouse came along. He saw the mitten in the snow.
"Oh," he said to himself, "here is just the thing for me. I could live happily in this mitten until
spring."
Into the mitten he went.
Soon a little white rabbit came through the forest. He looked at the mitten, too. "Hello," he
called. "Who lives in this mitten?"
"I do," said the mouse.

"Yes, my daughter is beautiful," said the woodman, "and she works from morning until night.
She looks after the garden. She helps me to get firewood. She makes my dinner. At night, she sits
beside the fire and spins. My daughter can do anything. She can even spin straw into gold."
"Straw into gold!" cried the king. "I have never seen anyone do that."
"My daughter can do it," said the woodman.
"I must see this for myself," said the king. "Your daughter must come to the palace to spin for
me. She must come today."
So, that very day, the girl left her forest home and went to the palace. The king took her to a little
room. In the room there was some straw. Beside the straw there was a spinning wheel.
"You must stay here tonight," said the king. "You must spin this straw into gold by morning. If
you do not, you shall die."

That night the queen did not sleep. She
thought of every name she had ever heard.
The next day the little man came back to
the palace. The queen tried to guess his
name. After each guess, the little man said,
     "No, that is not my name.
The queen told him all the names she knew. Then she said, "If you will come back tomorrow, I'll
try to have some more names for you."
"I shall come back," said the little man.
After the little man had left, the queen thought and thought. She could not think of any more
names. She asked her friends to help her. They told her all the names they knew. Each friend told
her names she had never heard before.
When the little man came back the next day, she tried again to guess his name.
"Is your name =WhiteWhiskers?" she asked.
"No," said the little man. "Try again."

The twenty princesses came and went. The king and the queen and the prince met each of them.
They knew that not one of them was a real princess.
That afternoon twenty more princesses came to the palace. These princesses were younger and
more beautiful than the first ones. The king and the queen and the prince met them all. Not one
of them was a real princess.
The prince was very sad. "I shall never find a real princess to marry," he said.
"Do not be sad," said the queen. "Tomorrow, twenty more princesses will come to the palace. I
am sure that one of them will ,be a real princess."
But the next morning it began to rain. When the prince saw the rain, he said, "No princesses will
come to the palace today."
"Not in all this rain," said the queen.
"When the sun shines again, we may find a real princess," said the king.

Down the path, hopping and stopping
and singing to himself, came =FroggyFrog.
"Hello, =FroggyFrog," called the meadow mouse. "Will you play a game with me?"
"No, thank you," answered =Froggy. "I can't play with you today. I'm too busy. I must find a
place to stay, because winter is coming."
"Why can't you wait until tomorrow or the next day to find a place to stay?" asked =Googie.
"Today is the day to play Jump-the-apple."
"Today is the day to find a house for the winter," said the frog. "Tomorrow will be too late,
because it's going to snow. Grandfather =Elf just told me so."
Down the path went =FroggyFrog, hopping and stopping and singing his song.
"Hop and stop, hop and stop.
First I hop, and then I stop."
Soon Mrs =Rabbit came along. Four little rabbits were hopping along behind her.


Splash ! Into the pond he went, head first. "=Googie," said =Buster, "come out of the pond and
we'll try again."
Before =Googie could get out of the water, Grandfather =Elf came along. "Hello, =Googie," he
said. "What are you doing in the pond?"
"I'm flying," answered the mouse.
"Flying!" laughed the elf. "Who ever heard of a mouse flying?"
"But I want to fly," said =Googie. "I want to fly high in the sky. =Buzz can fly. =Buster can fly,
and =LittleHoot can fly. I have to stay down here all by myself."
"I think I can help you," said Grandfather =Elf. "Come along with me."
The old elf took =Googie to his house.
=Googie watched while Grandfather =Elf made a big kite. When it was finished, they took it
outside.
"Now, get up on the kite," said Grandfather =Elf.


"We'll have to go home without a goat," said =Carlo's father. "We'll have to wait until we get
more money."
 =Carlo and his father began to walk away.
"Wait! Wait!" called the man. "Maybe I can help you. How much money do you have?"
=Carlo's father opened the little bag. He showed the money to the old man.
"There's one more goat I could show you,"
said the man. "She is not beautiful, and she does not have white hair, but you do have
enough money to buy her."     j
"Please," said =Carlo, "show us the goat."
The old man showed the goat to =Carlo and
his father. The goat came to =Carlo. She
looked at him sadly and sniffed his hand.    
The boy said to his father, "Her face is
sad. Her coat does not shine. She is not as  '
beautiful as the other goats, but she does
 look friendly."
"I think she likes you," said =Carlo's father.


=Tina's Day at the Market

One day =Carlo was busy making something.
"What are you doing?" asked his mother.
"I'm making a cart for =Tina," said =Carlo. "She must help us with our work. Tomorrow we'll
have six bags of onions and two bags of peas to sell in the market. If =Tina will pull the cart, I
can take the peas and onions to town in it."
=Carlo worked all day. At last he had finished making the little cart with red wheels.
In the morning, =Carlo put the bags of peas d nd onions on the cart. =Tina pulled, and the cart
began to move. =Carlo's mother and father watched the boy and the goat start out on their way.
"Good-bye," called =Carlo. "I'll sell all these onions and peas and hurry back with the money."

In the morning =Carlo again tried to find =Tina. When he came back to the house, his father
asked, "Have you found her?"
"No," =Carlo answered sadly. "I don't know where she could have gone."
"Maybe she has gone down the hill to the town. You should go down and look for her there,"
said his father.
=Carlo hurried down the hill. He looked in the long grass beside the path and in the fields near
by. When he came to the town, he walked through the streets. He asked some of the people he
met if they had seen his goat. No one had seen her in the town. No One knew where she had
gone. =Carlo ran into the market-place. He looked everywhere for =Tina, but he could not find
her. Sadly, =Carlo went up the hill to his home.
That night, when =Carlo was in bed, he thought he heard =Tina calling, "=Maaa, =maaa."
=Carlo got out of bed and went outside.

The older boy called back, "My name is =DavidBrown."
"And I'm =PeterBrown," said the younger boy. "We're living on the =EarlyBird for the summer.
The little red boat pulled the =EarlyBird
to the island. The boats stopped at the dock. Mrs =Brown and the two children got out of their
boat. The men worked on the motor
of the =EarlyBird for a while. Then Mr
=Greenfield said, "I'm afraid we can't fix this motor. There's nothing more we can do about it
today. Tomorrow, when Mr =King comes, he'll know how to fix it."
=Jimmy and his father took the =Browns up to the lighthouse. There the =Browns met Mrs
=Greenfield.
=Jimmy showed =David and =Peter around the island. They took turns playing with =Mitten.
They climbed the stairs to the top of the
tall lighthouse. They looked at the lamp. 


=Bingo rode around the ring on a little horse and waved to the
people. The horse stopped suddenly, and =Bingo fell off. He looked very surprised. All the
people laughed and clapped.
The little horse waited for =Bingo to climb up on its back. Then it galloped around the ring.
Again the horse stopped suddenly, and: again =Bingo fell off. When he got up, he tripped over
his big shoes. Everyone laughed again.
Then, into the spotlight came a little green car. =Bobo, the tall clown, was driving it. He stopped
the car and climbed out. He whistled. A big dog put its head out of the car window. It barked,
and =Bobo opened the door. The dog jumped out. =Bobo whistled again. One by one, five more
dogs jumped out. All the dogs were white with black spots. Everyone was surprised to see a big
clown and six dogs come out of such a small car.

=Tommy looked at the two children, and the children looked at him.
"Hello," they said. "We're going to have a picnic in the park with our pets. Do you want to come
with us?"
"I'd like to come to your picnic," replied =Tommy, and he went through the gate and into the park
with them.
"Our pets can do all kinds of tricks that you have never ever seen before," said the boy. "Do you
want to see what they can do?"
"Yes, please," said =Tommy.
The children whispered something to their pets, and the pets began to move. The dragon sat
down on the ground. The tiger climbed up on the dragon's back. The pig climbed up on the tiger,
while the mouse got up on the very top of the pig's head.
"Trick one," called the little girl. The spotted mouse began to dance on top of the pig's head.


"Yes, thank you," replied =Tommy.
"We have popcorn every day," said the girl. "Sometimes we have hot-dogs, too. Our dragon is
very good at getting them ready."
"Do your pets eat popcorn?" asked =Tommy.
"Yes, even our dragon likes it," answered the boy.
Just then, along came the old car with doors like bananas, windows like apples, wheels like
pumpkins, a chimney on the front, and a rocket on the back. It stopped at the park gate. The man
in the car called out, "Your picnic time is over. Come along."
The girl, the boy, the blue pig, the black and yellow tiger, the baby dragon, and the spotted mouse
climbed into the car. They waved to =Tommy as the car pulled away. =Tommy waved good-bye
to them.
"If you get up early enough," =TommyTickle said to himself, "you sometimes see things that
other people never ever see."


 "I guess the cow is hungry, too," he thought. "No one has given her any grass to eat or any water
to drink today."
The man left the porridge to cook on the fire and hurried outside. He gave the cow some water.
"I haven't time to find any grass for you now," he said to the cow. "I'll put you up Y on the roof.
You'll find something to eat up there."
The man put the cow on top of the house. Then he was afraid that she would fall off the roof and
hurt herself. So he put one end of a rope around the cow's neck. He dropped the other end down
the chimney.


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