Introduction -- The short of it -- One and all -- Beautiful beasts -- Delicious dishes -- It's about time -- Happiness is -- Weather and seasons -- Sad and sorrowful -- Strange and mysterious -- Poems from storybooks -- The long of it.
The short of it -- Auk talk / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A word is dead / Emily Dickinson -- Primer lesson / Carl Sandburg -- If all the world were paper / Anonymous -- There was an old person of Ware / Edward Lear -- To his cat / Doris Orgel -- Hippopotamus / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The little man who wasn't there / Hughes Mearns -- The floorless room / Gelett Burgess -- There was an old man of Blackheath / Anonymous -- Fireflies / Mary Ann Hoberman -- One and all -- Sometimes / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Poem for Rodney / Nikki Giovanni -- San Francisco / Francisco X. Alarc?on -- My name / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Tit for tat / Christopher Morley -- Strategy / Gary Soto -- You oughta meet Danitra Brown / Nikki Grimes -- A time to talk / Robert Frost -- The twins / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Love that boy / Walter Dean Myers -- Antique shop / Carl Carmer -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Ben?et -- I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson -- Bird talk / Aileen Fisher -- Messages from everywhere / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Beautiful beasts -- The animal store / Rachel Field -- Chums / Arthur Guiterman -- My cat / Barbara Esbensen -- Roosters / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Mary Middling / Rose Fyleman -- A frog in a well explains the world / Alice Schertle -- Bat patrol / Georgia Heard -- The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay -- Beavers in November / Marilyn Singer -- The puffin / Douglas Florian -- Don't every seize a weasel by the tail / Jack Prelutsky -- Tiger / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The yak / Hilaire Belloc -- Eletelephony / Laura E. Richards -- Delicious dishes -- I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous -- Oak leaf plate / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Mix a pancake / Christina Rossetti -- Yellow butter / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The silver fish / Shel Silverstein -- Alas, alack! / Walter de la Mare -- Raw carrots / Valerie Worth -- Soup / Carl Sandburg -- My father owns the butcher shop / Anonymous -- Miss T. / Walter de la Mare -- Old Quin Queeribus / Nancy Byrd Turner -- Found and lost / Anne Marie Manfried -- To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams -- Pretty futility / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- It's about time -- Time / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Marie Lucille / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The early morning / Hilaire Belloc -- Time to rise / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Hurry / Eve Merriam -- The days have names / JonArno Lawson -- Night / Sara Teasdale -- The oak trees are dreaming / Patricia Hubbell -- At night / Kristine O'Connell George -- Sweet dreams / Ogden Nash -- Magic story for falling asleep / Nancy Willard -- How far / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Happiness is -- Happiness / A. A. Milne -- Toad by the road / Joanne Ryder -- The sun / John Drinkwater -- How to tell the top of a hill / John Ciardi -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- If-ing / Langston Hughes -- Things / Eloise Greenfield -- The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Song of the train / David McCord -- The happy egg / Ruth Krauss -- Jenny kissed me / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- There is a tree / Karla Kuskin -- An immorality / Ezra Pound -- Weather and seasons -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- Summer grass / Carl Sandburg -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Over and under / William Jay Smith -- The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Snowspell / Robert Francis -- Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie -- Snow / Mary Ann Hoberman -- I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford -- Sad and sorrowful -- Samuel / Bobbi Katz -- Song / John Keats -- Poem / Langston Hughes -- The mouse / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The flattered flying fish / E. V. Rieu -- The snare / James Stephens -- My father / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Strange and mysterious -- The horseman / Walter de la Mare -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Her strong enchantments failing / A. E. Housman -- Rapunzel / Adelaide Crapsey -- Silver / Walter de la Mare -- Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dinky / Theodore Roethke -- That old haunted house / Judith Viorst -- The mysterious cat / Vachel Lindsay -- Overheard on a saltmarsh / Harold Monro -- Journey / Anne Marie Manfried -- Old Man Ocean, how do you pound / Russell Hoban -- Ariel's song / William Shakespeare -- Poems from storybooks -- How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland -- Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame, from The wind in the willows -- I am Rose my eyes are blue / Gertrude Stein, from The world is round -- I won't go down the horrible street / James Thurber, from The wonderful O -- Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl, from James and the giant peach -- In and out the bushes, up the ivy / Randall Jarrell, from The bat-poet -- The road goes ever on and on / J. R. R. Tolkien, from The fellowship of the ring -- The long of it -- The Jumblies / Edward Lear -- Disobedience / A. A. Milne -- The camel's hump / Rudyard Kipling -- The camel's complaint / Charles E. Carryl -- 0The llama who had no pajama / Mary Ann Hoberman.
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