The complete Jungle Book as Kipling set it down. There's more to the jungle than a boy raised by wolves, there's the sea and boys who watch elephants and oh-so-much-more!

The tales of Oscar Wilde hold less fantasy and more mystery than many of those told by Grimm or Anderson. They are as beautiful as they are strange.

Another fairy tale by MacDonald, capable of stripping the adulthood from your brain, if you give it half a chance.

A more complex piece. I enjoyed reading this in middle school, and I've since read it aloud to my girlfriend, who loved it, and portions to other people at various times, receiving mixed reactions.

Poems for two, but requires practice unless you're an exemplary english major. Read the customer review by _R. Kirkham "jrkirkham"_ and follow his example.

Want something a bit more intimate to read to a special someone? Donne's just the only man ever capable of making a romantic poem about fishing. See "The Bait" on the back cover.

WARNING: This is extremely heavy for reading aloud, but rewards just as immensely as its language is ponderously immense. Dark prose, but beautiful in its disturbing motion.