Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookures, some are told entirely by them. The choice of these illustrations was made from our best modern knowledge about little children. It is now recognized that they like simple incidents, about themselves or the familiar things around them, drawn in clear outline or with strong color. There are certain artists, too, who seem to have retained their own childlikeness better than others, and such were called upon to illustrate this volume. * * * * * CONTENTS PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION vii INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME ONE xv #FATHER AND MOTHER PLAYS# BABY'S TEN LITTLE LIVE PLAYTHINGS 2 By J. K. Barry MONDAY 4 By Edith Goodyear FINGER PLAY 5 By Edith Goodyear COUNTING THE FINGERS 6 AN OLD NORSE FINGER PLAY 6 BABY'S TOES 6 BABY'S TOES 7 By Edith A. Bentley THIS IS THE WAY MY FINGERS STAND 8 THUMBKIN, POINTER 8 NAMING THE FINGERS 8 By Laura E. Richards ROBERT BARNS 8 "SHALL I, OH! SHALL I?" 8 JACK, BE NIMBLE 9 TWO LITTLE HANDS 9 PAT A CAKE 9 CLAP YOUR HANDS 9 THE BIRD'S NEST 10 A Froebel Finger Play TWO LITTLE BLACKBIRDS 10 MASTER SMITH 10 LITTLE ROBIN REDBREAST 10 GREETING 10 A PLAY FOR THE ARMS 10 THE LITTLE WINDOW 10 A Froebel Finger Play SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE 11 THE PIGEON HOUSE 11 A Froebel Finger Play SAID THIS LITTLE FAIRY 12 A BURROWING GAME 12 PAT A CAKE 12 A Froebel Finger Play A KNEE GAME 12 A FOOT PLAY 12 PUTTING THE FINGERS TO SLEEP 13 TEN LITTLE SQUIRRELS 14 MY LITTLE GARDEN 15 THE FAMILY 16 By Emilie Poulsson JOHNNY SHALL HAVE A NEW BONNET 18 #RIDING SONGS FOR FATHER'S KNEE# TO MARKET RIDE THE GENTLEMEN 19 HERE GOES MY LORD 19 A FARMER WENT TROTTING 20 UP TO THE CEILING 20 THE MESSENGER 20 CATCH HIM, CROW 20 RIDE A COCK-HORSE 21 THIS IS THE WAY 21 RIDE AWAY, RIDE AWAY 21 TO MARKET, TO MARKET 21 TROT, TROT, THE BABY GOES 21 By Mary F. Butts RIDE A COCK-HORSE 22 HERE WE GO 22 #MOTHER GOOSE SONGS AND STORIES# WHO ARE THESE? 24 I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING 25 GOOSEY, GOOSEY, GANDER 25 THE WIND 25 ONCE I SAW A LITTLE BIRD 25 RING-A-RING-A-ROSES 25 CROSS PATCH 26 HAPPY LET US BE 26 THE OLD WOMAN IN THE BASKET 26 THE FOX AND THE OLD GRAY GOOSE 28 JACK AND JILL 29 WILLY BOY 29 BONNY LASS 29 OH, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? 30 BOBBY SHAFTOE 30 DING-DONG-BELL 30 LONDON BRIDGE 31 GREEN GRAVEL 32 OLD MOTHER HUBBARD 32 LITTLE BO-PEEP 34 COME OUT TO PLAY 35 LITTLE ROBIN REDBREAST 35 LITTLE BOY BLUE 36 MY MAID MARY 36 HARK! HARK! 37 BOW-WOW-WOW 37 BLOW, WIND, BLOW 37 BYE, BABY BUNTING 37 THREE LITTLE KITTENS 38 TOM WAS A PIPER'S SON 39 DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY 40 BILLY BOY 40 THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM 41 LITTLE TOMMY TUCKER 41 PUSSY AND THE MICE 41 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY 41 CHINESE MOTHER-GOOSE RHYMES 42 By Prof. Isaac Taylor Headland #MOTHER GOOSE CONTINUED# By Anna Marion Smith PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT 45 LITTLE BOY BLUE 45 PAT-A-CAKE 46 DICKORY DOCK 46 HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON? 47 HARK! HARK! 47 THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN 48 HUMPTY DUMPTY 51 THE QUEEN OF HEARTS 54 ONE MISTY, MOISTY MORNING 54 OLD KING COLE 55 PUSSY SITS BESIDE THE FIRE 56 THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW 56 I HAD A LITTLE HUSBAND 57 THERE WAS A MAN IN OUR TOWN 57 SEE SAW, SACARADOWN 57 SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE 58 I LOVE LITTLE PUSSY 58 THE HORNER BROTHERS 59 By Elizabeth Raymond Woodward A LITTLE OLD MAN 60 JINGLES 60 SAILING 61 By Lucy Fitch Perkins AN UP-TO-DATE PUSSY-CAT 62 By Adeline Knapp MISERY IN COMPANY 63 By Lucy Fitch Perkins COURT NEWS 64 By Lucy Fitch Perkins A MESSAGE TO MOTHER GOOSE 65 By Ellen Manly #SLEEPY-TIME SONGS AND STORIES# SWEET AND LOW 72 By Alfred, Lord Tennyson THE SLEEPY-TIME STORY 73 By Gertrude Smith THE GO SLEEP STORY 75 By Eudora S. Bumstead THE GENTLE DARK 78 By W. Grahame Robertson THE FERRY FOR SHADOWTOWN 78 HUSH-A-BYE, BABY 78 THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES 78 By William Wordsworth LATE 79 By Josephine Preston Peabody A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED 80 By Laurence Alma-Tadema MY DOLLY 80 THE CHILD AND THE WORLD 80 EVENING SONG 80 By C. Frances Alexander ROCK-A-BYE, BABY 80 THE SANDMAN 81 By Margaret Vandergrift THE FAIRY FOLK 81 By Robert Bird QUEEN MAB 82 By Thomas Hood LULLABY 82 By Gertrude Thompson Miller KENTUCKY BABE 82 MY POSSESSIONS 83 THE WAKE-UP STORY 83 By Eudora S. Bumstead #FIRST STORIES FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK# ABOUT SIX LITTLE CHICKENS 86 By S. L. Elliott "TRADE-LAST" 88 By Lucy Fitch Perkins PHILIP'S HORSE 89 THE KITTEN THAT FORGOT HOW TO MEW 90 By Stella George Stern WHAT COULD THE FARMER DO? 93 By George William Ogden FLEDGLINGS 97 By Lucy Fitch Perkins "TIME TO GET UP!" 98 By Ellen Foster MAGGIE'S VERY OWN SECRET 100 By Sara Josephine Albright THE GOOD LITTLE PIGGIE AND HIS FRIENDS 102 By L. Waldo Lockling BABY'S PARADISE 105 By Lucy Fitch Perkins DISOBEDIENCE 106 FOR A LITTLE GIRL OF THREE 108 By Uncle Ned A FUNNY FAMILY 109 LITTLE BY LITTLE 110 #LITTLE STORIES THAT GROW BIG# THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 111 GIANT THUNDER BONES 112 By Stella Doughty THE HOUSE THAT JILL BUILT 116 By Carolyn Wells THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG 119 THE LAMBIKIN 121 THE CAT AND THE MOUSE 123 HENNY-PENNY 124 THREE GOATS IN THE RYEFIELD 127 Adapted by Cecilia Farwell TEENY TINY 129 SONG OF THE PEAR TREE 130 COCK-ALU AND HEN-ALIE 131 By Mary Howitt THERE IS THE KEY OF THE KINGDOM 136 #FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK# NO DOGS ALLOWED AT LARGE 137 By Culmer Barnes TOMMY AND HIS SISTER AND THEIR NEW PONY-CART 138 By Dewitt Clinton Falls THE ADVENTURES OF THREE LITTLE KITTENS 139 By Culmer Barnes THE LITTLE KITTENS' SURPRISE 140 By Culmer Barnes TED'S FOOLISH WISH 141 By Charles Fitch Lester NONSENSE RHYME 142 TIMOTHY TRUNDLE 143 By Frederick Moxon A DREAM OF GLORY 148 By Charles Fitch Lester PICTURES 149 By Culmer Barnes THE REUNION OF THE BRUIN FAMILY AT THE SEA SHORE 150 By Culmer Barnes THE BABY MICE ARE INSTRUCTED BY THEIR FOND PAPA 151 By Culmer Barnes ROLY POLY ON VACATION 152 By Culmer Barnes MOTHER GOOSE'S LAST TROLLEY RIDE 153 By Culmer Barnes IVAN AND THE WOLF 154 By Culmer Barnes HOMEWARD BOUND 154 By Culmer Barnes THEIR LITTLE JAR 156 By Bell LITTLE ESKI AND THE POLAR BEAR 158 By Culmer Barnes #FUNNY VERSES AND PICTURES# THE FROG'S FIASCO 160 By D. K. Stevens THE MUSICAL TRUST 164 By D. K. Stevens THE CAUTIOUS CAT 168 By D. K. Stevens THREE LITTLE BEARS 171 By M. C. McNeill THE SNOWMAN 172 By W. W. Ellsworth #ANIMAL STORIES# TINY HARE AND THE WIND BALL 173 By A. L. Sykes HOW TINY HARE MET CAT 176 By A. L. Sykes THE WEE HARE AND THE RED FIRE 179 By A. L. Sykes THE GOOD KING 182 By Margaret and Clarence Weed EARLY AND LATE 184 By W. S. Reed THE LITTLE PINK PIG AND THE BIG ROAD 185 By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser JUGGERJOOK 188 By L. Frank Baum WHAT YOU BURYING, A BONE 194 THE LITTLE GRAY KITTEN 194 By Mary Lawrence Turnbull PUSSY'S WHEELS 197 By Annie W. McCullough THE SMALL GRAY MOUSE 198 By Nathan Haskell Dole THE RABBIT, THE TU |