Myths and Fables
Why the Ant is Almost Cut in Two, a Kiowa Tale
Folk & Fairy Tales
Bluebeard, Charles Perrault
Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper, Charles Perrault
Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault
Aschenputtel (Cinderella), Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince, Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel, Brothers Grimm
Little Red Cap, Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin, Brothers Grimm
The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Anderson
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson
Jack and the Beanstalk, Joseph Jacobs
Lazy Jack, Joseph Jacobs
Master of all Masters, Joseph Jacobs
Molly Whuppie, Joseph Jacobs
The Story of the Three Bears, Joseph Jacobs
The Three Little Pigs, Joseph Jacobs
Poetry
from Mother Goose's Melody, John Newbery
The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear
from A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
from Poems to Solve, May Swenson
The Whirligig Beetles, Paul Fleischman
Miscellaneous Readings
How to Write a Literary Analysis
from The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettleheim
Gretel in Darkness, Louise Gluck
Cinderella, Ann Sexton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, from L. Frank Baum
The Cross of Gold and The Wizard of Oz, from The History of Money
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
from Anastasia Krupnik, Lois Lowry
The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. LeGuin
(this periodically appears online; I don't see it at this moment)