| Description |
248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
"Opening poems for each section especially written for this anthology by Jack Prelutsky. |
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Includes indexes. |
| Summary |
More than 550 poems by American, English, and anonymous authors. |
| Contents |
Auguries of innocence - All thing bright and beautiful - I'm glad the sky is painted blue - The universe - Measurement - On the bridge - Flint - The wolf cry - The secret song - Last rites - Trees - The crocus - Dandelion - The ferns - Birch trees - The wind - Mountain wind Windy nights - Who has seen the wind? - Mountain brook - River winding - Water's edge - Mud - The muddy puddle - Sea shell - The sea - Until I saw the sea - The rain has silver sandals - Rain clouds - To walk in warm rain - Rhyme - The more it snows - First snow - When all the world is full of snow - Stopping by woods on a snowy evening - the snowflake - Check - The moon's the north wind's cooky - The star - Night comes - Night - Silver - the night is a big black cat. |
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The months - Four seasons - January - Martin Luther King - Lincoln - Ground hog day - Beyond winter - Valentine - Ice - Washington - Smells - February twilight - Paper dragons - Maple feast - When - Daylight saving time - March - The March wind - Wearing of the green - Spring rain - Ode to spring - Easter - Spring is - On mother's day - Spring - Good-by my winter suit - A moment in summer - A rocket in my pocket - Maytime magic - Summer - Joyful - October - October - August - Harvest home - This is halloween - Lazy witch - Thanksgiving magic - 12 October - Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving day - Light the festive candles - The children's carol - Winter moon - I heard a bird song - Merry Christmas - From: A Christmas package - A visit from St. Nicholas. |
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The waltzer in the house - Mice - THe chipmunk's song - To a squirrel at Kyle-na-no - The rabbit - The hedgehog - The bat - The bat - the sloth - Camel - the camel's complaint - Buffalo dusk - The hippopotamus - Holding hands - Oliphaunt - The wolf - Beside the line of elephants - Four little foxes - Grandpa bear's lullaby - The lesser lynx - Polar bear - The lion - Lion - Leopard - Seal - The performing seal - The donkey - The wild, the free - The mandrill - Ode to the pig: His tail - The pig - The hairy dog - A pig is never blamed - The cow - Roger the dog - Lone dog - Sunning - Bliss - I've got a dog - His highness's dog - The cat of cats - A cat in despondency - The cats of Kilkenny - Country barnyard - Cats - Cat - Little things - Feather or fur - Cat's menu. |
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Hey, bug! - Hurt no living thing - Green stems - A bug sat in a silver flower - Crickets - Praying mantis - Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating - Wasps - The flea - Bug in a jug - The bug - Oh the toe-test! - When mosquitoes make a meal - Cockroaches - A dragonfly - Fireflies in the garden - Caterpillar - The tickle rhyme - Ladybug - the codfish - A wee little worm - The flattered flying fish - Long gone - The shark - Fishes' evening song - Sally and Manda - The lizard - The boa - Brontosaurus - Desert tortoise - The frog - The crocodile - Samuel - The tree frog - The hummingbird - The polliwog - Baby talk - The canary - Ducks' ditty - The duck - The blackbird - Sea gull - The sandpiper - Something told the wild geese - The hen - Night heron - The vulture - The sparrow hawk - The eagle. |
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Just for one day - The riveter - Gift with the wrappings off - City, city - Sing a song of subways - Things to do if you are a subway - Flowers are a silly bunch - Rudolph is tired of the city - That may morning - Umbilical - Sunrise - The people - The people upstairs - Zebra - Crowds - Concrete mixers - They've all gone south - Pigeons - Sing a song of people - Stickball - A sad song about Greenwich Village - Fog - Alley cat school - Open hydrant - April rain song - City lights - Rainy nights - City - Frightening - Where are you now? - Foghorns - The city dump - Cockpit in the clouds. |
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Hug o'war - Advice to small children - The joke - Changing - Somebody - I saw a little girl I hate - Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry - Love - I love you - Question - I hate Harry - Puzzle - John, Tom, and James - Double-barreled ding-dong-rat - Yip-yap rattletrap - Tag along - Ten kinds - There was a little girl - Two people - Read this with gestures - Table manners - Jack - Bubble gum - Did you? - Why run? - The story of Augustus who would not have any soup - Eat-it-all Elaine - Tired Tim - Wendy in winter - Tony Baloney - Fernando - Queenie - Jessica Jane - Follow the leader - Freddy - Girls can, too! - No girls allowed - Little Clotilda - We're racing, racing down the walk - Maggie and Milly and Molly and May - Wrestling - Measles - Barbershop - Wiggly giggles - Since Hanna moved away - A lullaby - What in the world?. |
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My name is... - Me - My father owns the butcher shop - I am rose - Me - Every time I climb a tree - The rason I like chocolate - Mark's fingers - When I was lost - Kaziah - Just me - How to get there - A wolf - Dust of snow - Sulk - If no one ever marries me - Broom balancing - About feet - On the skateboard - I can fly - Basketball - Basketball star - Song - Growing up - The marrog - Everybody says - Stupid old myself - Don't tell me that talk too much! - Surprises - If we didn't have birthdays - History - I am Cherry Alive - I'm really not lazy - Winter clothes - I'm nobody! who are you? - Yawning - Rhinos purple, hippos green - One day when we went walking. |
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The wrong start - Mother's nerves - John - Walking - Mother doesn't want a dog - Amelia mixed the mustard - I wish I could meet the man that knows - Some things don't make any sense at all - The first tooth - Bringing up babies - Six weeks old - Help! - Lil' bro' - My brother - Leave me alone - The Myra song - Let others share - In the motel - Rules - The runaway - Soap - What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday - They're calling - Going up - Up in the pine - Homework - Homework - Hot line - I'm alone in the evening - the winning of the TV west - The middle of the night - Our house - Two people. |
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My mouth - This is just to say - Tomorrow's the fair - Turtle soup - Oodles of noodles - Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast - Egg thoughts - Pie problem - Meg's egg - Celery - Taste of purple - Chocolate - Patience - My little sister - Little bits of soft-boiled egg - Chocolate, chocolate - A thousand hairy savages - I eat my peas with honey - Accidentally - I raised a great hullabaloo - Twickham tweer - The worm - The pizza - Soliloquy of a tortoise... - Mr. Pratt - Sneaky Bill. |
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Some people - People - Routine - Daddy fell into the pond - Smart - One misty, moisty morning - Thoughts on talkers - My brother Bert - Grandpapa - Growing old - Grandpa dropped his glasses - Manners - Uncle - Miss Norma Jean Pugh - Godmother - Too many Daves - The little boy and the old man - Tombstone - Air traveler - House. For sale - Jittery Jim - On a bad singer - Doctor Emmanuel - Hog-calling competition - Old Quin Queeribus - There was an old man with a beard - Jonathan Bing - Poor old lady - Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty - Solomon Grundy - Mr. Kartoffel - Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker - The sugar lady - Lord Cray - Together - The opposite of two - Sir Smasham Uppe. |
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Jabberwocky - Toot! Toot! - Higglety, pigglety, pop! - One the ning nang nong - The common cormorant - McIntosh apple - The lobsters and the fiddler crab - The butterfly's ball - The contrary waiter - Whoops! - Way down south - The duel - The owl and the pussy-cat - The hare and the pig - The alligator - The lizard - The serpent - The shark - I had a little pig - The ants at the olympics - The animal fair - The purple cow - I asked my mother - Algy met a bear - The walrus - Adventures of Isabel - Alligator pie - Beela by the sea - You must never bath in an irish stew - Did you ever go fishing? - Sensitive, seldom and sad - Josephine - The folk who live in Backward town - Father William - Johnny Crack and Flossie Snail - The snail's dream - The twins - The new vestments - Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece - Don't worry if your job is small - Number nine, penwiper mews - Tender heartedness - Jimmy Jet and his TV set - A young lady of Lynn - Herbert Glerbett. |
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A fly and a flea in a flue - The cow - The tutor - Weather - Two witches - Antonio - Habits of the hippopotamus - The bluffalo - Moses - The puffin - Eletelephony - Mr. Bidery's spidery garden - Banananananananana - Clickbeetle - Sing me song of teapots and trumpets - The modern Hiawatha - Misnomer - To be or not to be - Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail - Have you ever seen? - Waiters - An atrocious pun - Wild flowers - J's the jumping jay-walker - Poetry - Lumps - A word - The yak - Feelings about words. |
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Some one - Ghosts - Something is there - The horseman - Hist Shist - What's that? - Green cnadles - The witch! The witch! - Song of the witches - Owl - Wanted---a witch's cat - Eight witches - Witches' menu - Queen Neferititi - Colonel Fazackerley - Song of hte ogres - three ghostesses - The darkling elves - The elf and the dormouse - The bogeyman - The troll - The wendigo - Father and mother - The fairies - The great auk's ghost - The pumpkin - The seven ages of elf-hood - Unicorn - How to tell goblins from elves - The little man - Gumble - Slithergadee - The bogus-boo - Wrimples - Ms. Whatchamacallit Thingamajig - The spangled pandemonium - The creature in the classroom - Dinky - The plumpeppets - Could it have been a shadow?. |
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Happy thought - Our washing machine - Introduction to songs of innocence - No holes marred - Steam shovel - The toaster - The tin frog - Driving to the beach - My nose - From: The red book - Arithmetic - What is pink? - What is orange? - To be answered in our next issue - The base stealer - What is red? - Who's in - The library - The knockout - foul shot - Yellow - A football game - Maps - If once you have slept on an island - Train song - Travel - Flight plan - To an aviator - Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket - From a railway carriage - The toad - This little pig built a spaceship - Dreams - Far trek - How strange it is - The paint box - Keep a poem in your pocket - To dark eyes dreaming. |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, American.
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Children's poetry, English.
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American poetry.
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English poetry.
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| Added Author |
Prelutsky, Jack.
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Lobel, Arnold, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Book of poetry for children.
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| ISBN |
0394850106 |
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9780394850108 |
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0394950100 (library binding) |
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9780394950105 (library binding) |
