My Storytime Treasury

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A collection of rhymes, stories, myths, legends, poetry and folk tales selected for the very young from the anthology, My Book House, originally published in 1919

E-Book Information

  • Year: 1,991

  • City: Boston

  • Pages In File: 232

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 106

  • Identifier: 3,999,902,471

  • Org File Size: 53,470,624

  • Extension: pdf

  • Toc: Answer to a child's question / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- At Christmas play / Thomas Tusser -- The Bee, the mouse and the bum-clock / Irish -- A Belgian morning / Emile Cammaerts -- Belling the cat / Aesop -- The Boaster / Aesop -- The Bird's convention / Aristophanes -- A Bohemian evening / Czech nursery rhyme -- The Bow that bridges Heaven / Christina Rossetti -- Building the bridge / Russian -- The City mouse and the country mouse / Aesop -- The Clucking hen / from Aunt Effie's tales -- The Cock, the mouse and the little red hen / Felicite Le Fevre -- Come little leaves / George Cooper -- Dame Wiggins of Lee / M. Sharpe & J. Ruskin -- The Dancing monkeys / Aesop -- Dawlish fair / John Keats -- Donkey and the lap dog / Aesop -- An Explanation of the grasshopper / Vachel Lindsay -- The Foolish, timid little hare -- A German evening / Wilhelm Schiller -- The Gingerbread man / New England -- The Goldfinch / Odell Shepard -- Grasshopper green -- The Hare and the tortoise / Aesop -- Heap on more wood / Sir Walter Scott -- How the Brazilian beetles got their gorgeous coats / Elsie Spicer Eells -- How the finch got her colors / Flemish -- I heard the bells on Christmas / Longfellow -- Jack Frost / Gabriel Setoun -- Johnny & the three goats / Norse -- Late / Josephine Peabody -- Laughing song / William Blake -- The Lion and the mouse / Aesop -- The Little dog waltz / Story of Chopin -- The Little engine that could -- The Little gray pony / Maud Lindsay -- Little Gustava / Celia Thaxter -- Little Hansworst / Dutch puppet show -- The Little rabbit who wanted red wings / American -- The Little red hen and the grain of wheat / English -- The Little rooster and the little hen / Czech -- The Magpie's nest / English -- Monkeys / James Whitcomb Riley -- The Night before Christmas / Clement Moore -- Noah's ark / Bible -- Nonsense rhymes / Edward Lear -- Nurse's song / William Blake -- Oeyvind and Marit / Bjornstjerne Bjornsen -- Old shellover / Walter De la Mare -- Ole Shut Eyes, the Sandman / Hans Christian Andersen -- Over in the meadow / Olive A. Wadsworth -- The Owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear -- Please give me a ride on your back / Edward Lear -- Poems by Christina Rossetti -- The Poor old lady / Rafael Pombo -- Precocious piggy / Thomas Hood -- The Purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- Reen-reen-reeny-croak-frog / Rafael Pombo -- The Right time to laugh / Australian -- The Rooster and the sultan / Hungarian -- Russian rhymes -- School is over / Kate Greenaway -- The Sheep and the pig that made a home / Norse -- Snow / Mary Mapes Dodge -- A Song for Easter / Olive Beaupre Miller -- The Song of Solomon -- The Song of the bee / old jingle -- The Song of the flea / Berlioz -- The Star / Jane Taylor -- The Strange adventures of Baron Munchausen -- Sugar plum tree / Eugene Field -- A Swedish evening / Gustaf Froding -- The Tale of Nutcracker / Tchaikowsky -- The Teddy bear's picnic / John Bratton -- Ten little Indians -- There was an old man with a beard / Edward Lear -- The Turtle tha