| Description |
xxvii, 498 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations, plate ; 24 cm |
| Note |
An anthology of poetry for children. |
| Summary |
An anthology of over 500 poems primarily by American and English writers selected for their humor and appeal to young readers. |
| Contents |
Partial contents: Jingles old and new: Hey! diddle, diddle -- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe -- Ten little injuns -- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven -- Thirty days hath September -- Columbus sailed the ocean blue -- A B C D E F G -- I before e -- The farmer in the dell: Little boy blue -- There was a little girl and she had a little curl -- Jonathan Bing / Beatrice Curtis Brown -- Riddles in rhyme: As the world turns ; In a glass / Jonathan Swift -- Winds, weathers, seasons, charms: The months / Christina Rossetti -- Old wives' sayings. |
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Partial contents cont'd: In heaven and earth: Night / William Blake -- Fin, fur, and feather: The old dog / Robert Frost -- I'll tell you a story: The pied piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning -- Yesterday in Oxford street / Rose Fyleman -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- Simply nonsense: Pease-porridge hot -- Lear's limericks / Edward Lear -- The road to anywhere: My heart's in the highlands / Robert Burns -- Old songs to sing: A song of sixpence -- a red, red rose / Robert Burns -- True arrows: The spider and the fly / Mary Howitt -- Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt -- Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, English.
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Children's poetry, American.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Birch, Reginald B., 1856-1943.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977. Rainbow in the sky. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co. [c1935] (OCoLC)609445418 |
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