THE ROOM WITH THE WINDOW LOOKING OUT ON THE GARDEN
I know a yellow room
With great big sliding doors
And a window on the side
Looking out upon a garden.
There’s a balcony above
With a bench for carpenters
With planes and saws and hammers,
Bang! bang! with nails and hammers.
There are hooks beneath the stairs
To hang up hats and coats,
And nearby there’s a sink
With everybody’s cup.
There’s a rope and there’s a slide
Zzzip! but there’s a slide.
There are shelves and shelves and shelves
With colored silk and beads,
With paper and with crayons,
And a great big crock with clay.
And the’re blocks and blocks and blocks
And blocks and blocks and blocks
And the’re horses there and wagons
And cows and dogs and sheep,
And men and women, boys and girls
With clothes upon them too.
And then the’re cars to make a train
With engine and caboose.[B]
And the’re lots of little tables
In this yellow, yellow room
For boys and girls to sit at
And play with all those things.
And there’s a great big floor
In this yellow, yellow room
For boys and girls to sit on
And play with all those things.
And there is lots of sunshine
In this yellow, yellow room
For boys and girls to sit in
And play with all those things.
THE MANY-HORSE STABLE
All the material for this story was supplied by a three-year-old. The pattern was added. An older child would not be content with so sketchy an account. But it seems to compass a three-year-old’s most significant associations with a stable. The title is one in actual use by a four-year-old class.