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The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Illustrated by Kate Greenaway (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)
By Robert Browning, Kate Greenaway. 1993
Folktale in verse. The town of Hamelin employs a mysterious piper to save them from a plague of rats. When…
the townspeople refuse to pay him for his work, the piper takes magical revenge. For grades 3-6From sea to shining sea: a treasury of American folklore and folk songs
By Molly Bang, Amy L Cohn. 1993
Collection of more than 140 tales, poems, songs, and stories that provide a history of the United States. Topics include…
the creation, immigrants coming to America, the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, slavery, animals, sports, and ghost stories. For grades 2-4 and older readersI saw Esau: the schoolchild's pocket book
By Maurice Sendak, Iona Opie, Peter Opie. 1992
A collection of traditional schoolyard verse--more than 170 rhymes in all--grouped into more than thirty subjects from "Beginning of Term"…
to "End of Term." Included are the customary "Riddles," "Counting-out Rhymes," and "Game Rhymes," as well as "Insults," "Retaliations," "Teasing and Repartee," and "Lullabies--Adolescent Style." For grades 2-4 and older readers. Strong languageThe lady with the alligator purse
By Mary Ann Hoberman, Nadine Bernard Westcott. 1988
The traditional jump rope, nonsense rhyme about Tiny Tim who became quite ill while taking a bath when "he drank…
up all the water, he ate up all the soap, he tried to eat the bathtub, but it wouldn't go down his throat." The doctor and nurse are left in a quandary. Then the lady with the alligator purse arrives on the scene and knows just what to do! For preschool-grade 2Over in the meadow: an old nursery counting rhyme
By Paul Galdone. 1988
Father Fox's pennyrhymes
By Clyde Watson. 1971
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee
By Paul Galdone. 1985
The rooster crows: a book of American rhymes and jingles (This is America books)
By Maud Fuller Petersham. 1945
The Random House book of poetry for children (Random House Book of ...)
By Jack Prelutsky, Arnold Lobel. 1983
More than 500 verses written by American, English, and anonymous authors to intrigue the ear. There are poems about the…
delights and complaints of childhood, silvery-quiet nature poems, and laugh-out-loud, share-with-a-friend funny poems. For grades 2-4. 1983A great big ugly man came up and tied his horse to me: a book of nonsense verse
By Wallace Tripp. 1973
Little you / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan
By Richard Van Camp. 2021
Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for…
Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Little You is perfect to be shared, read or sung to all the little people in your life—and the new little ones on the way! Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this paperback as a dual-language (English and Plains Cree) edition. This accessible audiobook features alternate text descriptions of images, including the coverWho killed Cock Robin?
By Kevin O'Malley. 1993
A child's garden of verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2011
Classic western stories: the most beloved stories
By Cooper Edens. 2009
Western adventures of explorers, cowboys, and Indians are commemorated in poems, songs, and stories. Includes folk legends of Pecos Bill…
and Paul Bunyan, and real-life exploits of Lewis and Clark and Daniel Boone. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2009A family of poems: my favorite poetry for children
By Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth. 2005
Treasury of Caroline Kennedy's best-loved childhood verses about animals, seasons, adventures, and bedtime. Features familiar classics by Shakespeare, Basho, Emily…
Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Ogden Nash as well as contemporary works by Nikki Giovanni, Jack Prelutsky, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Kennedy's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, among many. For grades 4-7. 2005You read to me, I'll read to you: very short Mother Goose tales to read together
By Mary Ann Hoberman. 2005
Short stories in verse based on familiar nursery rhymes. In "Little Miss Muffet," the spider politely asks to join Miss…
Muffet on her tuffet and after some discussion is permitted to stay. And Jack and Jill have a safer trip up the hill the second time. For grades K-3. 2005Short rhymed stories based on eight traditional fairy tales. The princess and the pea discuss their feelings and become friends.…
In this version of "The Three Little Pigs," the pig keeps the wolf in a pot of boiling water until the wolf says he's sorry. For grades K-3. 2004Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: one hundred best-loved verses
By Mary Engelbreit. 2005
Presents traditional nursery rhymes passed down through generations. Includes "Thirty days hath September..." and "Monday's child," which teach lessons; "Jack…
and Jill" and "Humpty Dumpty," which show disasters; and "There was a little girl...," "Old King Cole," and "Bobby Shafto," which portray typical people. For preschool-grade 2. 2005Le Québec en contes et légendes
By Michel Savage. 2007
"[...] Écrit de manière simple et accessible, [ce livre] raconte l'histoire romancée du Québec depuis ses débuts. Il parle de…
loups-garous, de feux follets, de diables, de revenants et de fantômes. Il répond aussi à des questions comme "D'où vient l'hiver ?", "Qui est le Bonhomme Sept-heures ?" ou "Comment a-t-on découvert le sirop d'érable?". Le Québec en contes et légendes est un heureux mélange d'histoires les plus connues de la tradition orale, de contes inédits et de faits historiques relégués aux oubliettes. Plusieurs textes connus ont été réécrits par les auteurs pour mieux captiver les lecteurs d'aujourd'hui, pour leur faire peur, pour les faire pleurer ou pour les faire rire. [...]" -- 4e de couvHere there be dragons
By Jane Yolen. 1993
Five poems and eight stories about dragons by Jane Yolen, who precedes each with an introductory note about the piece.…
The collection includes "Why Dragons?" "The Dragon's Boy," "The Making of Dragons," and "Here There Be Dragons." For grades 4-7 and older readers