Summary

A new collection of old and familiar nursery rhymes -- rhymes that stay alive from generation to generation because they move in lively rhythms. The words of these old favorites roll easily from the tongue, whether they be full of wisdom, humor or just plain nonsense. Many are fine poetry and serve as an important introduction to our literature. Hilda Offen's illustrations are very much in keeping with the spirit of the old familiar words. They will be a lasting joy to readers and listeners, young and old.

Author Biography

Linda Yeatman is the author of numerous children's books including A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes, Buttons: The Dog Who Was More Than a Friend, and Pickles.

Contents

Old Mother Goose
Jack and Jill
Simple Simon
Mary's Lamb
One, Two
The Pumpkin Eater
Jack Sprat
Doctor Foster
The Owl
Ring-a-Ring o'Roses
Ding, Dong, Bell
What Can the Matter Be?
The Lion and the Unicorn
To Market
Bobby Shaftoe
Old King Cole
Willie Winkie
Dapple Gray
Pat-a-Cake
Little Miss Muffet
Three Men in a Tub
One Misty, Moisty Morning
Polly Flinders
Hush-a-Bye
The North Wind
Old Mother Hubbard
Little Bo-peep
My Mother Said
Cock a Doodle Doo
Goose Feathers
Doctor Fell
Race Starting
Rain
Bow-wow
Going to St Ives
Humpty Dumpty
Old Woman
Baby Bunting
Lucy and Kitty
Tom, Tom
The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe
Three Blind Mice
Ipsey Wipsey Spider
Solomon Grundy
A Frog he Would a-Wooing Go
Jack Horner
Ride a Cock-Horse
Old Roger
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
Jeremiah Obadiah
An Old Woman
Three Young Rats
Pop Goes the Weasel!
If all the Seas
Tommy Tucker
The Cat and the Fiddle
Christmas is Coming
Gunpowder Plot
Pins
If Wishes were Horses
This Little Pig Went to Market
The Mad Man
If All the World Was Paper
Star Light
Peter White
Pease Porridge
Goosey Gander
Polly Put the Kettle On
Three Little Kittens
Jeremiah
Anna Maria
Old Mother Shuttle
Sing a Song of Sixpence
The Wise Men of Gotham
The Soldier and the Maid
The Queen of Hearts
Pussy-Cat
The Mischievous Raven
Hannah Bantry
The Bat
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
The Giant
Three Ghostesses
If I Had a Donkey
The Jolly Miller
Jack-a-Nory
A Rat
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
Georgie Porgie
A Man of Thessaly
Twinkle, Twinkle
The Little Nut Tree
Six Little Mice
Queen Caroline
Little Boy Blue
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
The House that Jack Built
To Babylon
Lavender's Blue
Hector Protector
The Ladybird
The Bells of London
Jack
The Grand Old Duke of York
On Saturday Night
Pussy Cat Mew
The Days of the Months
Jerry Hall
Terence McDiddler
All Work and No Play
A Nail
To Bed
Snail, Snail
Higglety, Pigglety
Alphabet Pie
Cock Robin
Robin the Bobbin
Little Jumping Joan
Moses
Gregory Griggs
King Arthur
Davy Dumpling
The Key of the Kingdom
Mary, Mary
My Black Hen
Roses are Red
It's Raining
Jingle Bells
Hot Cross Buns
Where, Oh Where
Sulky Sue
The Crooked Man
The Milkman
The Sky
Yankee Doodle
The Kilkenny Cats
A Man in the Wilderness
The Man With Nought
The Magpie
The Milk Maid
Corporal Bull
The Cuckoo
The Wind
Ten o'clock Scholar
The Little Man
The Pie
Hush, Little Baby
The Flying Pig
See-Saw, Margery Daw
The Beggars
My Father Died
A Week of Birthdays
I Saw a Ship a-Sailing
Bandy Legs
Little Tommy Tittlemouse
Hoddley, Poddley
The Mulberry Bush
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Bedtime
The Moon
A Prayer
Index of First Lines

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Excerpts

From Chapter Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

All the King's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Excerpted from A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes by Linda Yeatman
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