Introduction
Nature Is :
Auguries of innocence / William Blake
All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander
I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Anonymous
Universe / Mary Britton Miller
Measurement / A M Sullivan
On the Bridge / Kate Greenaway
Flint / Christina Rossetti
Wolf Cry / Lew Sarett
Secret song / Margaret Wise Brown
Last rites / Christina Rossetti
Trees / Sara Coleridge
Crocus / Walter Crane
Dandelion / Hilda Conkling
Ferns / Gene Baro
Birch trees / John Richard Moreland
Wind-wolves / William D Sargent
Wind / James Reeves
Mountain wind / Barbara Kunz Loots
Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson
Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti
Mountain brook / Elizabeth Coatsworth
River winding / Charlotte Zolotow
Water's edge / Lillian Morrison
Mud / Polly Chase Boyden
Muddy puddle / Dennis Lee
Sea shell / Amy Lowell
Sea / Anonymous
Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore
Rain has silver sandals / May Justus
Rain clouds / Elizabeth-Ellen Long
To walk in warm rain / David McCord
Rhyme / Elizabeth Coatsworth
More it snows / A A Milne
First snow / Marie Louise Allen
When all the world is full of snow / N M Bodecker
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Snowflake / Walter de la Mare
Check / James Stephens
Moon's the north wind's cooky / Vachel Lindsay
Star / Jane Taylor
Night comes / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Night / Mary Ann Hoberman
Silver / Walter de la Mare
Night is a big black cat / G Orr Clark
Four Seasons :
Months / Sara Coleridge
Four seasons / Anonymous
January / John Updike
Martin Luther King / Myra Cohn Livingston
Lincoln / Nancy Byrd Turner
Ground hog day / Lilian Moore
Beyond winter / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valentine / Shel Silverstein
Ice / Charles G D Roberts
Washington / Nancy Byrd Turner
Smells / Kathryn Worth
February twilight / Sara Teasdale
Paper dragons / Susan M Schmeltz
Maple feast / Frances Frost
When / Dorothy Aldis
Daylight saving time / Phyllis McGinley
March / Elizabeth Coatsworth
March wind / Anonymous
Wearing of the green / Aileen Fisher
Spring rain / Marchette Chute
Ode to spring / Walter R Brooks
Easter / Joyce Kilmer
Spring is / Bobbi Katz
On mother's day / Aileen Fisher
Spring / Karla Kuskin
Good-by my winter suit / N M Bodecker
Moment in summer / Charlotte Zolotow
Rocket in my pocket / Anonymous
Maytime magic / Mable Watts
Summer / Frank Asch
Joyful / Rose Burgunder
October / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
October / Maurice Sendak
August / John Updike
Harvest home / Arthur Guiterman
This is Halloween / Dorothy Brown Thompson
Lazy witch / Myra Cohn Livingston
Thanksgiving magic / Rowena Bastin Bennett
12 October / Myra Cohn Livingston
Thanksgiving / Ivy O Eastwick
Thanksgiving day / L Maria Child
Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher
Children's Carol / Eleanor Farjeon
Winter moon / Langston Hughes
I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford
Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher
From : a Christmas package / David McCord
Visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats :
Waltzer in the house / Stanley Kunitz
Mice / Rose Fyleman
Chipmunk's song / Randall Jarrell
To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / William Butler Yeats
Rabbit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Hedgehog / J J Bell
Bat / Theodore Roethke
Bat / Frank Jacobs
Sloth / Theodore Roethke
Camel / Alan Brownjohn
Camel's complaint / Charles Edward Carryl
Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg
Hippopotamus / Jack Prelutsky
Holding hands / Lenore M Link
Oliphaunt / JRR Tolkien
Wolf / Georgia Roberts Durston
Beside the line of elephants / Edna Becker
Four little foxes / Lew Sarett
Grandpa bear's lullaby / Jane Yolen
Lesser lynx / E V Rieu
Polar bear / Gail Kredenser
Lion / Jack Prelutsky
Lion / William Jay Smith
Leopard / Gretchen Kreps
Seal / William Jay Smith
Performing seal / Rachel Field
Donkey / Anonymous
Wild, the free / Lord Byron
Mandrill / Conrad Aiken
Ode to the pig : his tail / Walter R Brooks
Pig /Roland Young
Hairy dog / Herbert Asquith
Pig is never blamed / Babette Deutsch
Cow / Ogden Nash
Roger the dog / Ted Hughes
Lone dog / Irene McLeod
Sunning / James S Tippett
Bliss / Eleanor Farjeon
I've got a dog / Anonymous
His highness's dog / Anonymous
Cat of cats / William Brighty Rands
Cat in despondency / Anonymous
Cats of kilkenny / Anonymous
Country barnyard / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Cats / Eleanor Farjeon
Cat / Mary Britton Miller
Little things / James Stephens
Feather or fur / John Becker
Cat's menu / Richard Shaw
Ways Of Living Things :
Hey, Bug! / Lilian Moore
Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti
Green stems / Margaret Wise Brown
Bug sat in a silver flower / Karla Kuskin
Crickets / Valerie Worth
Praying mantis / Mary Ann Hoberman
Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Walter R Brooks
Wasps / Dorothy Aldis
Flea / Roland Young
Bug in a jug / Anonymous
Bug / Marjorie Barrows
Oh the toe-test! / Norma Farber
When mosquitoes make a meal / Else Holmelund Minarik
Cockroaches / Kaye Starbird
Dragonfly / Eleanor Farjeon
Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost
Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti
Tickle rhyme / Ian Serraillier
Ladybug / Joan Walsh Anglund
Codfish / Anonymous
Wee little worm / James Whitcomb Riley
Flattered flying fish / E V Rieu
Long gone / Jack Prelutsky
Shark / Lord Alfred Douglas
Fishes' evening song / Dahlov Ipcar
Sally and Manda / Alice B Campbell
Lizard / John Gardner
Boa / J J Bell
Brontosaurus / Gail Kredenser
Desert tortoise / Byrd Baylor
Frog / Hilaire Belloc
Crocodile / Lewis Carroll
Samuel / Bobbi Katz
Tree frog / John Travers Moore
Hummingbird / Michael Flanders
Polliwog / Arthur Guiterman
Baby talk / Anna Bird Stewart
Canary / Ogden Nash
Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame
Duck / Richard Digance
Blackbird / Humbert Wolfe
Sea gull / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Sandpiper / Frances Frost
Sandpiper / Witter Bynner
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field
Hen / Lord Alfred Douglas
Night heron / Frances Frost
Vulture / Hilaire Belloc
Sparrow hawk / Russell Hoban
Eagle / Alfred Tennyson
City, Oh City!:
Just for one day / Lillian Morrison
Riveter / Mabel Watts
Gift with the wrappings off / Mary Elizabeth Counselman
City, city / Marci Ridlon
Sing a song of subways / Eve Merriam
Things to do if you are a subway / Bobbi Katz
Flowers are a silly bunch / Arnold Spilka
Rudolph is tired of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks
That May morning / Leland B Jacobs
Umbilical / Eve Merriam
Sunrise / Frank Asch
People / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
People upstairs / Ogden Nash
Zebra / Judith Thurman
Crowds / Virginia Schonborg
Concrete mixers / Patricia Hubbell
They've all gone south / Mary Britton Miller
Pigeons / Lilian Moore
Sing a song of people / Lois Lenski
Stickball / Virginia Schonborg
Sad song about Greenwich village / Frances Park
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Alley cat school / Frank Asch
Open hydrant / Marci Ridlon
April rain song / Langston Hughes
City lights / Rachel Field
Rainy nights / Irene Thompson
City / Langston Hughes
Frightening / Claudia Lewis
Where are you now? / Mary Britton Miller
Foghorns / Lilian Moore
City dump / Felice Holman
Cockpit in the clouds / Dick Dorrance.

Children, Children Everywhere :
Hug o' war / Shel Silverstein
Advice to small children / Edward Anthony
Joke / Anonymous
Changing / Mary Ann Hoberman
Somebody / Anonymous
I saw a little girl I hate / Arnold Spilka
Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Clyde Watson
Love / William Jay Smith
I love you / Anonymous
Question / Anonymous
I hate Harry / Miriam Chaikin
Puzzle / Arnold Spilka
John, Tom, and James / Charles Henry Ross
Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Dennis Lee
Yip-yap rattletrap / Clyde Watson
Tag along / Nina Payne
Ten kinds / Mary Mapes Dodge
There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Two people / E V Rieu
Read this with gestures / John Ciardi
Table manners / Gelett Burgess
Jack / Charles Henry Ross
Bubble gum / Nina Payne
Did you? / William Cole
Why run? / Norah Smaridge
Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Heinrich Hoffman
Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird
Tired Tim / Walter de la Mare
Wendy in winter / Kaye Starbird
Tony baloney / Dennis Lee
Fernando / Marci Ridlon
Queenie / Leland B Jacobs
Jessica Jane / May Justus
Follow the leader / Kathleen Fraser
Freddy / Dennis Lee
Girls can, too! / Lee Bennett Hopkins
No girls allowed / Jack Prelutsky
Little Clotilda / Anonymous
We're racing, racing down the walk / Phyllis McGinley
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E E Cummings
Wrestling / Kathleen Fraser
Measles / Kaye Starbird
Barbershop / Martin Gardner
Wiggly giggles / Stacy Jo Crossen and Natalie Anne Covell
Since Hanna moved away / Judith Viorst
Lullaby / Lewis Carroll
What in the world? / Eve Merriam
Me I Am!:
My name is / Pauline Clarke
Me / Walter de la Mare
My father owns the butcher shop / Anonymous
I am Rose / Gertrude Stein
Me / Karla Kuskin
Every time I climb a tree / David McCord
Reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni
Mark's fingers / Mary O'Neill
When I was lost / Dorothy Aldis
Keziah / Gwendolyn Brooks
Just me / Margaret Hillert
How to get there / Bonnie Nims
Wolf / Osage Indian
Dust of snow / Robert Frost
Sulk / Felice Holman
If no one ever marries me / Laurence Alma-Tadema
Broom balancing / Kathleen Fraser
About feet / Margaret Hillert
On the skateboard / Lillian Morrison
I can fly / Felice Holman
Basketball / Nikki Giovanni
Basketball star / Karama Fufuka
Song / Ruth Krauss
Growing up / Harry Behn
Marrog / R C Scriven
Everybody says / Dorothy Aldis
Stupid old myself / Russell Hoban
Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Arnold Spilka
Surprises / Jean Conder Soule
If we didn't have birthdays / Dr Seuss
History / Myra Cohn Livingston
I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz
I'm really not lazy / Arnold Spilka
Winter clothes / Karla Kuskin
I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson
Yawning / Eleanor Farjeon
Rhinos purple, hippos green / Michael Patrick Hearn
One day when we went walking / Valine Hobbs
Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside :
Wrong start / Marchette Chute
Mother's nerves / X J Kennedy
John / N M Bodecker
Waking / Lilian Moore
Mother doesn't want a dog / Judith Viorst
Amelia mixed the mustard / A E Housman
I wish I could meet the man that knows / John Ciardi
Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst
First tooth / Charles and Mary Lamb
Bringing up babies / Roy Fuller
Six weeks old / Christopher Morley
Help! / X J Kennedy
Lil' bro' / Karama Fufuka
My brother / Marci Ridlon
Leave me alone / Felice Holman
Myra song / John Ciardi
Let other share / Edward Anthony
In the motel / X J Kennedy
Rules / Karla Kuskin
Runaway / Bobbi Katz
Soap / Martin Gardner
What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / John Ciardi
They're calling / Felice Holman
Going up / John Travers Moore
Up in the pine / Nancy Dingman Watson
Homework / Jane Yolen
Homework / Russell Hoban
Hot line / Louella Dunann
I'm alone in the evening / Michael Rosen
Winning of the TV west / John T Alexander
Middle of the night / Karla Kuskin
Our house / Dorothy Brown Thompson
Two people / Eve Merriam
I'm Hungry!:
My mouth / Arnold Adoff
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams
Tomorrow's the fair / Anonymous
Turtle soup / Lewis Carroll
Oodles of noodles / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr
Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi
Egg thoughts / Russell Hoban
Pie problem / Shel Silverstein
Meg's Egg / Mary Ann Hoberman
Celery / Ogden Nash
Taste of purple / Leland B Jacobs
Chocolate cake / Nina Payne
Patience / Bobbi Katz
My little sister / William Wise
Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Fay Maschler
Chocolate, chocolate / Arnold Adoff
Thousand hairy savages / Spike Milligan
I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous
Accidentally / Maxine W Kumin
I raised a great hullabaloo / Anonymous
Twickham tweer / Jack Prelutsky
Worm / Ralph Bergengren
Pizza / Ogden Nash
Soliloquy of a tortoise / E V Rieu
Mr Pratt / Myra Cohn Livingston
Sneaky Bill / William Cole
Some People I Know :
Some people / Rachel Field
People / Charlotte Zolotow
Routine / Arthur Guiterman
Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes
Smart / Shel Silverstein
One misty, moisty morning / Anonymous
Thoughts on talkers / Walter R Brooks
My brother Bert / Ted Hughes
Grandpapa / Harry Graham
Growing old / Rose Henderson
Grandpa dropped his glasses / Leroy R Jackson
Manners / Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Uncle / Harry Graham
Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Mary O'Neill
Godmother / Phyllis B Morden
Too many dayes / Dr Seuss
Little boy and the old man / Shel Silverstein
Tombstone / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr
Air traveler / Lillian Morrison
House-for sale / Leonard Clark
Jittery Jim / William Jay Smith
On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Doctor Emmanuel / James Reeves
Hog-calling competition / Morris Bishop
Old Quin queeribus / Nancy Byrd Turner
There was on old man with a beard / Edward Lear
Jonathan Bing / Beatrice Curtis Brown
Poor old lady / Anonymous
Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Anonymous
Solomon Grundy / Anonymous
Mr Kartoffel / James Reeves
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl
Sugar lady / Frank Asch
Lord Cray / Edward Gorey
Together / Paul Engle
Opposite of two / Richard Wilbur
Sir Smasham uppe / E V Rieu
Nonsense! Nonsense!:
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
Toot! toot! / Anonymous
Higglety, pigglety, pop! / Samuel Goodrich
On the ning nang nong / Spike Milligan
Common cormorant / Christopher Isherwood
McIntosh apple / Steven Kroll
Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Frederick J Forster
Butterfly's ball / William Roscoe
Contrary waiter / Edgar Parker
Whoops! / Anonymous
Way down south / Anonymous
Duel / Eugene Field
Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
Hare and the pig / L J Bridgman
Alligator / Mary Macdonald
Lizard / Theodore Roethke
Serpent / Theodore Roethke
Shark / J J Bell
I had a little pig / Anonymous
Ants at the Olympics / Richard Digance
Animal fair / Anonymous
Purple cow / Gelett Burgess
I asked my mother / Anonymous
Algy met a bear / Anonymous
Walrus / Michael Flanders
Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash
Alligator pie / Dennis Lee
Beela by the sea / Leroy R Jackson
You must never bath in the Irish stew / Spike Milligan
Did you ever go fishing? / Anonymous
Sensitive, seldom and sad / Mervyn Peake
Josephine / Alexander Resnikoff
Folk who live in backward town / Mary Ann Hoberman
Father William / Lewis Carroll
Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Dylan Thomas
Snail's dream / Oliver Herford
Twins / Henry S Leigh
New vestments / Edward Lear
Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Jack Prelutsky
Don't worry if your job is small / Anonymous
Number nine, Penwiper mews / Edward Gorey
Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham
Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Shel Silverstein
Young lady of Lynn / Anonymous
Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky.

Alphabet Stew :
Fly and a flea in a flue / Anonymous
Cow / Jack Prelutsky
Tutor / Carolyn Wells
Weather / Anonymous
Two witches / Alexander Resnikoff
Antonio / Laura E Richards
Habits of the hippopotamus / Arthur Guiterman
Bluffalo / Jane Yolen
Moses / Anonymous
Puffin / Robert Williams Wood
Eletelephony / Laura E Richards
Mr Bidery's spidery garden / David McCord
Ptarmigan / Anonymous
Banananananananana / William Cole
Clickbeetle / Mary Ann Hoberman
Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / N M Bodecker
Modern Hiawatha / George A Strong
Misnomer / Eve Merriam
To be or not to be / Anonymous
Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Jack Prelutsky
Have you ever seen? / Anonymous
Waiters / Mary Ann Hoberman
Atrocious pun / Anonymous
Wild flowers / Peter Newell
J's the jumping jay-walker / Phyllis McGinley
Poetry / Eleanor Farjeon
Lumps / Judith Thurman
Word / Emily Dickinson
Yak / Jack Prelutsky
Feelings about words / Mary O'Neill
Where Goblins Dwell :
Some one / Walter del la Mare
Ghosts / Harry Behn
Something is there / Lilian Moore
Horseman / Walter de la Mare
Hist whist / e e Cummings
What's that? / Florence Parry Heide
Green candles / Humbert Wolfe
Witch! the witch! / Eleanor Farjeon
Song of the witches / William Shakespeare
Owl / Sylvia Read
Wanted-a witch's cat / Shelagh McGee
Eight witches / B J Lee
Witches' menu / Sonja Nikolay
Queen Nefertiti / Anonymous
Colonel Fazackerley / Charles Causley
Song of the ogres / W H Auden
Three ghostesses / Anonymous
Darkling elves / Jack Prelutsky
Elf and the dormouse / Oliver Herford
Bogeyman / Jack Prelutsky
Troll / Jack Prelutsky
Wendigo / Ogden Nash
Father and mother / X J Kennedy
Fairies / William Allingham
Great auk's ghost / Ralph Hodgson
Pumpkin / Robert Graves
Seven ages of elf-hood / Rachel Field
Unicorn / William Jay Smith
How to tell goblins from elves / Monica Shannon
Little man / Hughes Mearns
Gumble / Michael Dugan
Slithegadee / Shel Silverstein
Bogus-boo / James Reeves
Wrimples / Jack Prelutsky
Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Miriam Chaikin
Spangled pandemonium / Palmer Brown
Creature in the classroom / Jack Prelutsky
Dinky / Theodore Roethke
Plumpuppets / Christopher Morley
Could it have been a shadow? / Monica Shannon
Land Of Potpourri :
Happy thought / Robert Louis Stevenson
Our washing machine / Patricia Hubbell
Introduction to songs of innocence / William Blake
No holes marred / Suzanne Douglass
Steam shovel / Charles Malam
Toaster / William Jay Smith
Tin frog / Russell Hoban
Driving to the beach / Joanna Cole
My nose / Dorothy Aldis
From : the bed book / Sylvia Plath
Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg
What is pink? / Christina Rossetti
What is orange? / Mary O'Neill
To be answered in our next issue / Anonymous
Base stealer / Robert Francis
What is red? / Mary O'Neill
Who's in / Elizabeth Fleming
Library / Barbara A Huff
Knockout / Lillian Morrison
Foul shot / Edwin A Hoey
Yellow / David McCord
Football game / Alice Van Eck
Maps / Dorothy Brown Thompson
If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Field
Train song / Diane Siebert
Travel / Edna St Vincent Millay
Flight plan / Jane Merchant
To an aviator / Daniel Whitehead Hicky
Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / Patricia Hubbell
From a railway carriage / Robert Louis Stevenson
Toad / Robert S Oliver
This little pig built a spaceship / Frederick Winsor
Dreams / Langston Hughes
Far trek / June Brady
How strange it is / Claudia Lewis
Paint box / E V Rieu
Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
To dark eyes dreaming / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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