My Bookhouse in the Nursery

Description Readers of all ages will delight in the tales and poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, Kate Greenaway, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and other popular storytellers. Selections include Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Sweet and Low,” “There Was a Naughty Boy” by John Keats, “The Little Girl and the New Dress” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen, and scores of lullabies, nonsense verses, and other cherished poems of childhood. Contents A, B, C, Kitty’s in the Snow I See!, German Nursery Rhyme African Child Rhymes All the Cats Consulted, (Maryland) American Rhymes American Indian Songs American Rhymes Animal Crackers, Christopher Morley Annie Goes to the Cabbage Field, Czechoslovakian Rhyme As It Fell Upon a Day, William Shakespeare As I Went to Bonner, Mother Goose As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks, Mother Goose A-Tisket, A-Tasket, American Rhyme At the Wedding of Miss Jenny Wren, French Nursery Rhyme Auntie, Where Are You Going?, Czechoslovakian Rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Mother Goose Baby Bye, Here’s a Fly, American Rhyme Bang-Whang-Whang, Robert Browning The Barnyard, (Kentucky Mountain Song) American Rhyme Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat, Mother Goose Big Clock — Tick, Tock!, Polish Rhyme The Big Street in the Big City, Lucy Sprague Mitchell The Big Umbrella and the Little Rubbers Billy, Billy Come and Play, Mother Goose Birds of a Feather, Mother Goose Biting Marion, Lucy Sprague Mitchell Blessings on Thee, Dog of Mine, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Blow, Wind, Blow, and Go, Mill, Go!, Mother Goose The Boatman, He’s a Lucky Man!, (Ohio River Boatman’s Song) American Rhyme Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea, Mother Goose “Bow-Wow,” Says the Dog, Mother Goose Bow, Wow, Wow, Whose Dog Art Thou?, Mother Goose Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play, Mother Goose The Boy Who Made Hay, Norse Nursery Rhyme Bring the Comb and Play Upon It!, Robert Louis Stevenson Building with Blocks Butterflies, Butterflies, (Pueblo Song) American Indian Song Bye-lo, Bubbeli, Sleep, Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme Bye-o! Bye-o!, (Georgia) American Rhyme Canadian Songs Catherine, My Dearie, French Nursery Rhyme Charley, Barley, Buck and Rye, (Maine) American Rhyme Charley’s Neat and Charley’s Sweet, (Kentucky Mountains) American Rhyme Child, I Must Sweep the Hut Today, (West Africa, Cameroon) African Child Rhyme Child, I See Thee!, John Keats The Children and the Bear, Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen Children’s Songs of Ancient Greece, Theognis Chimney Sweep, Swiss Nursery Rhyme Chinese Nursery Rhymes Chink, Chink, Chocket, Mexican Rhyme Cinderella Dressed in Green, (Pennsylvania) American Rhyme The Clucking Hen, From Aunt Effie’s Rhymes Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!, Mother Goose The Cock Is Crowing, William Wordsworth The Cock’s on the Housetop, Mother Goose Cold, Son of Wind and Snow, Finnish Rhyme Come, Let’s Go to Sant’ Anita, Mexican Rhyme Conversation, Rose Fyleman Crocus Flowers Bloom Like Fire, Meleager The Cuckoo and the Donkey, German Nursery Rhyme Czeckoslovakian Fhymes Daffy-Down-Dilly, Mother Goose Dainty Little Maiden, Alfred Tennyson Dame Durden, Welsh Rhyme Dance, Little Baby, Dance Up High!, Mother Goose Dance to Your Daddie, Scotch Rhyme Dickery, Dickery, Dare, Mother Goose Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, Mother Goose Diddle, Diddle on a Bass Fiddle, Polish Rhyme Don’t Run Away My Kitty, Russian Rhyme Down in a Cottage, Irish Rhyme Dreamland Opens Here, (Creole Lullaby, Louisiana) American Rhyme The Drums Call the Village to Dance, (South Africa, Rhodesia) African Child Rhyme Dutch Nursery Rhymes East Indian Rhymes The Elevator, Dorothy Baruch Engine, Engine Number Nine, (Middle West) American Rhyme An English Boy’s Game English Nursery Rhymes Eye of the Wise Men, Santo Domingo Rhyme Everyone’s Glad in Our City Today, Swedish Rhyme The Farmer in the Dell, American Rhyme The Farmer’s Boy, American Rhyme First Adventures Five Little Chicks, Spanish Nursery Rhyme The Fog, Carl Sandburg Four-and-Twenty Tailors, Mother Goose French Nursery Rhymes The Friendly Cow All Red and White, Robert Louis Stevenson Froggie Goes A-Courting, (Kentucky Mountains) American Rhyme Gay Go Up and Gay Go Down, Mother Goose Geman Nursery Rhymes Get Out of the Way, (North Carolina) American Rhyme Get Up, Little Horsey, Spanish Rhyme Go Ask Your Mother For Fifty Cents, American Rhyme A Goat One Day Was Feeling Fine, American Negro Rhyme God Hath Made Me to Laugh, The Bible Good Morning, Peter Good Morrow, ’tis St. Valentine’s Day, William Shakespeare Goosey, Goosey, Gander, Mother Goose Go Out, Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Go to Sleepy, Little Baby, (Georgia) American Rhyme Great A, Llittle A, Bouncing B, Mother Goose The Green Bus, James S. Tippett Groceries, James S. Tippett Guiseppi, The Cobbler, (Tuscany) Italian Nursery Rhyme Gurgle, Water, Gurgle, Polish Rhyme Handy-Spandy, Mother Goose The Harbor Hark, Hark! Bow-Wow!, William Shakespeare Hark, the Christmas Bells Are Ringing, Russian Rhyme Hear How the Birds, Alexander Pope Hector Protector, Mother Goose Hei, Jim Along Josey, Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme Here Am I, Little Jumping Joan, Mother Goose Here Come Three Jolly, Jolly Sailor Boys, (Maryland) American Rhyme Here Is the Key, Dutch Nursery Rhyme Here’s the Church, American Rhyme Here We Come, We Children Come, Theognis Here We Sail So Fast and Free, (Maryland) American Rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle, Mother Goose Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen, Mother Goose Hickory, Dickory, Dock!, Mother Goose Higgledy, Piggledy! See How They Run!, Kate Greenaway Hippety Hop to the Barber Shop, Mother Goose Hi-Yi, Hi-Yi, Hytola, Finnish Rhyme Hop, Mother Annika!, Swedish Rhyme Hop, My Horsey, Leap and Spring, German Nursery Rhyme How Doth the Little Busy Bee, Isaac Watts How Many Days Has My Baby To Play?, Mother Goose How Many Miles to Babylon?, Mother Goose How Strong a Bridge Have You?, Czechoslovakian Rhyme Humpty Dumpty, Mother Goose Hungarian Rhymes Hurry Up, Engine, (Southern States) American Rhyme Ice-Cold Lemonade, American Rhyme If I Could Walk, (Lombardy) Italian Nursery Rhyme I Had a Little Dog, American Negro Rhyme I Had a Little Husband, Mother Goose I Had a Little Mule, American Negro Rhyme I Had a Little Nut-Tree, Mother Goose I Had a Piece of Pie, (Texas) American Rhyme Ihi! Ihi! Ihi!, (Nootka Lullaby) American Indian Rhyme I Love Little Pussy, Jane Taylor I’m a Butcher, Czechoslovakian Rhyme I’m a Little Indian, Mexican Rhyme I’m a Peddler, American Rhyme I’m Captain Jinks, American Rhyme I’m Going to Lady Washington’s, (Eastern United States) American Rhyme In Basel at the Old Crown Inn, Swiss Nursery Rhyme In Spring the Birds Do Sing, Old English Rhyme In the Barnyard of My House, South American Rhyme In the Springtime, William Shakespeare I Saw a Crow A-Flying Low, (Kentucky Mountains) American Rhyme I Saw a Ship A-Sailing, Mother Goose I Should Like to Plough, Hungarian Rhyme I Stand in the Pulpit and Preach, Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme Italian Nursery Rhymes It Is God That Hath Made Us, The Bible I Took a Walk One Evening, Swedish Rhyme It Snows and It Blows, American Rhyme It’s Raining, Swiss Nursery Rhyme It’s Spring I Went to the Animal Fair, American Rhyme I Yay! I Yay! I Yay!, Eskimo Rhyme Jack and Jill, Mother Goose Jack, Be Nimble, Mother Goose A Japanese Lullaby Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, American Rhyme Jog On, Jog On, William Shakespeare John Brown Had a Little Indian, American Rhyme Johnny Shall Have a New Bonnet, Mother Goose Jokeli, Swiss Nursery Rhyme Jumbo Was an Elephant, (Kentucky) American Rhyme The Key to Bibbley-Babbley-Town, Dutch Nursery Rhyme King Dagobert, French Nursery Rhyme The King of France Went Up the Hill, Mother Goose King Stephen Was a Worthy Peer, William Shakespeare Knitting Still, Czechoslovakian Rhyme Lame Tame Crane, American Rhyme Lavender’s Blue, Mother Goose Lazy Old Mary, (Maryland) American Rhyme Lie A-Bed, Christina Rossetti Lines for a City Child Little Bells, Pretty Flowers of the Steppes, Russian Rhyme Little Beppo Pippo, Italian Nursery Rhyme A Little Bird Sits in the Willow, Polish Rhyme Little Bo-Peep, Mother Goose Little Boy Blue, Mother Goose A Little Cock Sparrow, Mother Goose The Little Girl and the New Dress, Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen Little Girl, Little Girl, Mother Goose Little Good Baby, (Cheyenne Lullaby) American Indian Song Little Jack Horner, Mother Goose Little King Boggin, Mother Goose Little Liese Comes A-Running, German Nursery Rhyme Little Maid, Pretty Maid, Mother Goose Little Miss Muffet, Mother Goose Little Nanny Etticoat, Mother Goose Little Peppino, (Campania) Italian Nursery Rhyme The Little Pig Little Robin Redbreast, Mother Goose The Little Rooster and the Little Hen, A Czechoslovakian Folk Tale Little Tommy Tucker, Mother Goose The Little Turtle, Vachel Lindsay Look, See the Boat!, Olive Beaupre Miller Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket, Mother Goose Lullabies The Man Who Has Plenty of Good Peanuts, (New England) American Rhyme Many, Many Stars Are in the Skies, (Georgia) American Rhyme Mario, Marietta, and Vanno, (Sicily) Italian Nursery Rhyme Mary and the Christ-Child, Olive Beaupre Miller Mary Had a Little Lamb, American Rhyme Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, Mother Goose Mary Milks the Cow, Norse Nursery Rhyme Mexican Rhymes Minnie and Mattie, Christina Rossetti Mister Postman, Olive Beaupre Miller Mr. Toad Set Out on a Journey, South American Rhyme Mix a Pancake, Christina Rossetti Monkeys, James Whitcomb Riley The Mouse Climbed Up the Candlestick, Chinese Nursery Rhyme My Boat, Anonymous My Lady Wind, Mother Goose My Maid Mary, Mother Goose Norse Nursery Rhymes Of All de Beasts dat Roam de Woods, American Negro Rhyme Of All the Girls That Are So Smart, H. Carey Of Speckled Eggs the Birdie Sings, Robert Louis Stevenson Oh, Here’s a Leg for a Stocking, Mother Goose O If My Top Would Only Spin, Canadian Song O I’ll Build a Square with My Pretty Red Blocks, Olive Beaupre Miller O, I’m a Jolly Old Cowboy, (Texas Cowboy Song) American Rhyme O, Lady Mary Ann, Robert Burns Old Dan Tucker, American Rhyme Old King Cole, Mother Goose Old Mother Goose, Mother Goose Old Mother Hubbard, Mother Goose Old Mother Wind, Chinese Nursery Rhyme Old Noah, (New England Song) American Rhyme O My Dame Had a Lamb Tame Crane, (Maryland) American Rhyme Once I Saw a Little Bird, Mother Goose One Misty Moisty Morning, Mother Goose One, Two, Three, Four, (Maryland) American Rhyme Open Your Beak, My Little Bird, (Central Africa, Congo) African Child Rhyme O Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie, Robert Burns The Orchestra O Sailor, Come Ashore, Christina Rossetti Otto Would A-Riding Go, Swedish Rhyme O ‘Twas on a Bright Mornin’ in Summer, Irish Rhyme Over in the Meadow, Olive A. Wadsworth Over the Hill to Feed My Sheep, (Kentucky Mountains) American Rhyme Over the River, (American Rhyme) Lydia Maria Child O Well for the Fisherman’s Boy, Alfred Tennyson O Where Has My Little Dog Gone, German-American Rhyme O Will You Shoe Our Pony, Pray?, Swiss Nursery Rhyme Park Play, James S. Tippett Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake, Baker’s Man!, Mother Goose Pease-Porridge Hot, Mother Goose Peekaboo, I See You!, Swedish Rhyme Pennsylvania Dutch Rhymes Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Mother Goose A Pie Sat on a Pear-Tree, Mother Goose Pinny, Pinny, Poppy Show!, American Rhyme Playing in the Sandpile The Ploughman He’s a Bonnie Lad, Robert Burns Poems by Alfred Tennyson Poems by Christina Rossetti Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson The Police Cop Man, Margaret Morrison Polish Rhymes Polly, Put the Kettle On, Mother Goose Pop! Goes the Weasel!, American Rural Song Precocious Piggy, Thomas Hood Pretty Flowers of the Steppes, Russian Rhymes Pretty Sally, H. Carey Pretty, See the Cloud Appear!, (Zuni Song) American Indian Song Puddin’ Tame, American Rhyme Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Mother Goose Pussy, Kittie, Spanish Nursery Rhyme Pussy, Pussy, Dear Pussy, Polish Rhyme Pussy Sits Beside the Fire, Mother Goose Puva, Puva, Sleep!, (Hopi Lullaby) American Indian Song Quaker, Quaker, How Is Thee?, (Philadelphia and Eastern States) American Rhyme Rain, Robert Louis Stevenson The Rajah Went to Delhi, East Indian Rhyme Reinar Was Watching His Cattle, Norse Rhyme A Rhyme from Santo Domingo Rhymes from Ireland Rhymes from Shakespeare Rhymes of Finland Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross, Mother Goose Ride Away, Ride Away, Mother Goose Ride, Ride A Horsey, Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme Ride, Ride Away, Norse Rhyme Ring Around A Rosy, (Maryland) American Rhyme A Robin and a Robin’s Son, Mother Goose Robin and Richard Were Two Pretty Men, Mother Goose Rock-A-Bye, Baby, Mother Goose Roll It, Bowl It, Canadian Song A Roman Boy’s Game The Rose Is Red, American Rhyme A Roumanian Lullaby Round Is My Bun, Hungarian Rhyme Row, Row, To the Fishing Banks Fare!, Norse Rhyme Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Mother Goose Russian Rhymes Sally’s Blue Ball, Marion Walker A Sea-Song from the Shore, James Whitcomb Riley See-Saw, Margery Daw, Mother Goose See-Saw, Sacaradown, Mother Goose Simple Simon, Mother Goose Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mother Goose Sing, Sing! — What Shall I Sing?, Mother Goose Sleep, Baby, Sleep, Mother Goose Sleep, My Baby! Sleep an Hour, Roumanian Lullaby Sleep, My Baby! Sleep My Baby!, Japanese Lullaby Sleep, Sleep, My Little One!, (East Africa, Abyssinia) African Child Rhyme The Sleepy Song, Josephine Daskam Bacon Smiling Girls, Rosy Boys, Mother Goose Snail, Snail, Russian Rhyme The Snow Man A Song of the Railroad Men Songs of Joy from the Bible South American Rhymes Spanish Nursery Rhymes A Squirrel, American Negro Rhyme The Squirrel Went Out to Cut the Hay, Norse Rhyme Star Light, Star Bright, American Rhyme A Story of the Wind St. Valentine’s Day, William Shakespeare Sum-m, Sum-m, Sum-m!, German Nursery Rhyme Swedish Rhymes Sweet and Low, Alfred Tennyson Swiss Nursery Rhymes Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, American Rhyme There Are Twelve Months, Old English Ballad There’s Not a Budding Boy, Robert Herrick There Was a Crow, Mother Goose There Was a Farmer Had a Dog, (Maryland) American Rhyme There Was a Horse, Mother Goose There Was a Little Boy, Chinese Nursery Rhyme There Was a Little Boy, English Nursery Rhyme There Was a Little Man and His Name Was Gice, Dutch Nursery Rhyme There Was a Monkey, Mother Goose There Was a Naughty Boy, John Keats There Was a Piper Had a Cow, Mother Goose There Was an Old Dame Called Tartine, French Nursery Rhyme There Was an Old Man, Mother Goose There Was an Old, Old Indian, Canadian Song There Was an Old Pig, American Rhyme There Was an Old Woman, Chinese Nursery Rhyme There Was an Old Woman, Mother Goose There Was an Old Woman of Harrow, Mother Goose There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket, Mother Goose There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Mother Goose There Was an Owl, Mother Goose There Were Three Duckies, Dutch Nursery Rhyme There Were Two Blackbirds, Mother Goose There Were Two Little Boys, Swedish Rhyme This Little Ant Went About with a Will, Mexican Rhyme This Little Pig Went to Market, Mother Goose This One Stole an Egg, Mexican Rhyme The Three Autos, Lucy Sprague Mitchell Three Jolly Sailor Boys, American Rhyme Three Little Kittens, English Nursery Rhyme Three Old Maids A-Skating Went, American Child Game Through the Jungle, East Indian Rhyme Thus I Guard My Mother’s Lambkins, Finnish Rhyme Ting-A-Ling-Ling, (Maryland) American Rhyme The Toads in the Lake, South American Rhyme To Market, to Market, Mother Goose Tommy Was a Silly Boy, Kate Greenaway Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, Mother Goose Train Story, Irma Simonton Turkey in the Straw, American Rural Song Up in the Green Orchard, Mother Goose Verses by John Keats Verses by Robert Burns Wake Up, Jacob, (Texas) American Rhyme Weaver John, Irish Rhyme Wee Willie Winkie, Mother Goose Welsh and Scottish Rhymes We’ve Come to See Miss Jenny Jones, American Rhyme What Are You Able to Build with Your Blocks?, Robert Louis Stevenson What Does Little Birdie Say?, Alfred Tennyson What’s the News of the Day, Mother Goose What’s Your Name?, (Maryland) American Rhyme What They Say, Mary Mapes Dodge When I Go A-Courting, (Southern States) American Rhyme When I See a Lady, South American Rhyme When I Was a Baby, Estonian Folk Song When I Was Down Beside the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson When Mrs. Bird Wants Mr. Bird, South American Rhyme When That I Was But a Little Tiny Boy, William Shakespeare When Uncle Henry Was a Little Tiny Boy (Mississippi Boatman’s Song) American Rhyme When Woods Awake, Old English Ballad Where Are My Roses?, (A Greek Game) Athenaeus Where Be You Going, You Devon Maid?, John Keats Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, German-American Rhyme White Fields, James Stephens A White Hen Sitting, Christina Rossetti Who Has Seen the Wind?, Christina Rossetti Who’s on the Roof?, Spanish Nursery Rhyme William T. Trinity, (Maryland) American Rhyme Willie Boy, Willie Boy, Mother Goose A Winky-Tooden Song, James Whitcomb Riley A Woman Had a Rooster, Polish Rhyme The World Is So Full, Robert Louis Stevenson Would You Like to See Goats Dance on Stilts?, German Nursery Rhyme Yankee Doodle, American Rhyme The Zoo in the Park