My Book House--In the Nursery

by Miller, Olive Beaupré

• ISBN13: 9780486499062
• ISBN10: 0486499065
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-20
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

From Mother Goose to Shakespeare, this My Book House compilation assembles more than 350 beloved nursery rhymes, chants, and children's poetry from around the world. Hundreds of full-color illustrations highlight Japanese lullabies, American Indian songs, Russian rhymes, and other folklore favorites. Contributors include Robert Louis Stevenson, Kate Greenaway, Christina Rossetti, and Robert Burns.

Author Biography

Olive Beaupré Miller (1883–1968) and her husband, Harry Miller, formed a company known as The Book House for Children. Starting in 1920 with this book, their innovative publications feature stories of literary value for young readers.

Table of 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