Most of the stories in this book are illustrated by pictures, some are told entirely by them. The choice of these illustrations was made from our best modern knowledge about little children. It is now recognized that they like simple incidents, about themselves or the familiar things around them, drawn in clear outline or with strong color. There are certain artists, too, who seem to have retained their own childlikeness better than others, and such were called upon to illustrate this volume.
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| [general introduction] | vii |
| [introduction to volume one] | xv |
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| [FATHER AND MOTHER PLAYS] | |
| [Baby’s Ten Little Live Playthings] | 2 |
| By J. K. Barry | |
| [Monday] | 4 |
| By Edith Goodyear | |
| [Finger Play] | 5 |
| By Edith Goodyear | |
| [Counting the Fingers] | 6 |
| [An Old Norse Finger Play] | 6 |
| [Baby’s Toes] | 6 |
| [Baby’s Toes] | 7 |
| By Edith A. Bentley | |
| [This Is the Way My Fingers Stand] | 8 |
| [Thumbkin, Pointer] | 8 |
| [Naming the Fingers] | 8 |
| By Laura E. Richards | |
| [Robert Barns] | 8 |
| "[“Shall I, Oh! Shall I?”] | 8 |
| [Jack, Be Nimble] | 9 |
| [Two Little Hands] | 9 |
| [Pat a Cake] | 9 |
| [Clap Your Hands] | 9 |
| [The Bird’s Nest] | 10 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| [Two Little Blackbirds] | 10 |
| [Master Smith] | 10 |
| [Little Robin Redbreast] | 10 |
| [Greeting] | 10 |
| [A Play for the Arms] | 10 |
| [The Little Window] | 10 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| [Sing a Song of Sixpence] | 11 |
| [The Pigeon House] | 11 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| [Said This Little Fairy] | 12 |
| [A Burrowing Game] | 12 |
| [Pat a Cake] | 12 |
| A Froebel Finger Play | |
| [A Knee Game] | 12 |
| [A Foot Play] | 12 |
| [Putting the Fingers to Sleep] | 13 |
| [Ten Little Squirrels] | 14 |
| [My Little Garden] | 15 |
| [The Family] | 16 |
| By Emilie Poulsson | |
| [Johnny Shall Have a New Bonnet] | 18 |
| | |
| [RIDING SONGS FOR FATHER’S KNEE] | |
| [To Market Ride the Gentlemen] | 19 |
| [Here Goes My Lord] | 19 |
| [A Farmer Went Trotting] | 20 |
| [Up to the Ceiling] | 20 |
| [The Messenger] | 20 |
| [Catch Him, Crow] | 20 |
| [Ride a Cock-Horse] | 21 |
| [This Is the Way] | 21 |
| [Ride Away, Ride Away] | 21 |
| [To Market, to Market] | 21 |
| [Trot, Trot, the Baby Goes] | 21 |
| By Mary F. Butts | |
| [Ride a Cock-Horse] | 22 |
| [Here We Go] | 22 |
| | |
| [MOTHER GOOSE SONGS AND STORIES] | |
| [Who Are These?] | 24 |
| [I Saw a Ship a-Sailing] | 25 |
| [Goosey, Goosey, Gander] | 25 |
| [The Wind] | 25 |
| [Once I Saw a Little Bird] | 25 |
| [Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses] | 25 |
| [Cross Patch] | 26 |
| [Happy Let Us Be] | 26 |
| [The Old Woman in the Basket] | 26 |
| [The Fox and the Old Gray Goose] | 28 |
| [Jack and Jill] | 29 |
| [Willy Boy] | 29 |
| [Bonny Lass] | 29 |
| [Oh, Where Are You Going?] | 30 |
| [Bobby Shaftoe] | 30 |
| [Ding-Dong-Bell] | 30 |
| [London Bridge] | 31 |
| [Green Gravel] | 32 |
| [Old Mother Hubbard] | 32 |
| [Little Bo-Peep] | 34 |
| [Come Out to Play] | 35 |
| [Little Robin Redbreast] | 35 |
| [Little Boy Blue] | 36 |
| [My Maid Mary] | 36 |
| [Hark! Hark!] | 37 |
| [Bow-Wow-Wow] | 37 |
| [Blow, Wind, Blow] | 37 |
| [Bye, Baby Bunting] | 37 |
| [Three Little Kittens] | 38 |
| [Tom Was a Piper’s Son] | 39 |
| [Daffy-Down-Dilly] | 40 |
| [Billy Boy] | 40 |
| [Three Wise Men of Gotham] | 41 |
| [Little Tommy Tucker] | 41 |
| [Pussy and the Mice] | 41 |
| [When I Was a Little Boy] | 41 |
| [Chinese Mother-Goose Rhymes] | 42 |
| By Prof. Isaac Taylor Headland | |
| | |
| [MOTHER GOOSE CONTINUED] | |
| By Anna Marion Smith | |
| [Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat] | 45 |
| [Little Boy Blue] | 45 |
| [Pat-a-Cake] | 46 |
| [Dickory Dock] | 46 |
| [How Many Miles to Babylon?] | 47 |
| [Hark! Hark!] | 47 |
| [There Was an Old Woman] | 48 |
| [Humpty Dumpty] | 51 |
| [The Queen of Hearts] | 54 |
| [One Misty, Moisty Morning] | 54 |
| [Old King Cole] | 55 |
| [Pussy Sits Beside the Fire] | 56 |
| [The North Wind Doth Blow] | 56 |
| [I Had a Little Husband] | 57 |
| [There Was a Man in Our Town] | 57 |
| [See Saw, Sacaradown] | 57 |
| [Sing a Song o’ Sixpence] | 58 |
| [I Love Little Pussy] | 58 |
| [The Horner Brothers] | 59 |
| By Elizabeth Raymond Woodward | |
| [A Little Old Man] | 60 |
| [Jingles] | 60 |
| [Sailing] | 61 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [An Up-to-Date Pussy-Cat] | 62 |
| By Adeline Knapp | |
| [Misery in Company] | 63 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Court News] | 64 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [A Message to Mother Goose] | 65 |
| By Ellen Manly | |
| | |
| [SLEEPY-TIME SONGS AND STORIES] | |
| [Sweet and Low] | 72 |
| By Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
| [The Sleepy-Time Story] | 73 |
| By Gertrude Smith | |
| [The Go Sleep Story] | 75 |
| By Eudora S. Bumstead | |
| [The Gentle Dark] | 78 |
| By W. Grahame Robertson | |
| [The Ferry for Shadowtown] | 78 |
| [Hush-a-Bye, Baby] | 78 |
| [The Kitten and the Falling Leaves] | 78 |
| By William Wordsworth | |
| [Late] | 79 |
| By Josephine Preston Peabody | |
| [A Blessing for the Blessed] | 80 |
| By Laurence Alma-Tadema | |
| [My Dolly] | 80 |
| [The Child and the World] | 80 |
| [Evening Song] | 80 |
| By C. Frances Alexander | |
| [Rock-a-Bye, Baby] | 80 |
| [The Sandman] | 81 |
| By Margaret Vandergrift | |
| [The Fairy Folk] | 81 |
| By Robert Bird | |
| [Queen Mab] | 82 |
| By Thomas Hood | |
| [Lullaby] | 82 |
| By Gertrude Thompson Miller | |
| [Kentucky Babe] | 82 |
| [My Possessions] | 83 |
| [The Wake-Up Story] | 83 |
| By Eudora S. Bumstead | |
| | |
| [FIRST STORIES FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK] | |
| [About Six Little Chickens] | 86 |
| By S. L. Elliott | |
| [“Trade-Last”] | 88 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Philip’s Horse] | 89 |
| [The Kitten That Forgot How to Mew] | 90 |
| By Stella George Stern | |
| [What Could the Farmer Do?] | 93 |
| By George William Ogden | |
| [Fledglings] | 97 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [“Time to Get Up!”] | 98 |
| By Ellen Foster | |
| [Maggie’s Very Own Secret] | 100 |
| By Sara Josephine Albright | |
| [The Good Little Piggie and His Friends] | 102 |
| By L. Waldo Lockling | |
| [Baby’s Paradise] | 105 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Disobedience] | 106 |
| [For a Little Girl of Three] | 108 |
| By Uncle Ned | |
| [A Funny Family] | |
| [Little by Little] | |
| | |
| [LITTLE STORIES THAT GROW BIG] | |
| [The House that Jack Built] | 111 |
| [Giant Thunder Bones] | 112 |
| By Stella Doughty | |
| [The House that Jill Built] | 116 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| [The Old Woman and Her Pig] | 119 |
| [The Lambikin] | 121 |
| [The Cat and the Mouse] | 123 |
| [Henny-Penny] | 124 |
| [Three Goats in the Ryefield] | 127 |
| Adapted by Cecilia Farwell | |
| [Teeny Tiny] | 129 |
| [Song of the Pear Tree] | 130 |
| [Cock-Alu and Hen-Alie] | 131 |
| By Mary Howitt | |
| [There Is the Key of the Kingdom] | 136 |
| | |
| [FUN FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK] | |
| [No Dogs Allowed at Large] | 137 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Tommy and His Sister and Their New Pony-Cart] | 138 |
| By Dewitt Clinton Falls | |
| [The Adventures of Three Little Kittens] | 139 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [The Little Kittens’ Surprise] | 140 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Ted’s Foolish Wish] | 141 |
| By Charles Fitch Lester | |
| [Nonsense Rhyme] | 142 |
| [Timothy Trundle] | 143 |
| By Frederick Moxon | |
| [A Dream of Glory] | 148 |
| By Charles Fitch Lester | |
| [Pictures] | 149 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [The Reunion of the Bruin Family at the Sea Shore] | 150 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [The Baby Mice Are Instructed by Their Fond Papa] | 151 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Roly Poly on Vacation] | 152 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Mother Goose’s Last Trolley Ride] | 153 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Ivan and the Wolf] | 154 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Homeward Bound] | 154 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| [Their Little Jar] | 156 |
| By Bell | |
| [Little Eski and the Polar Bear] | 158 |
| By Culmer Barnes | |
| | |
| [FUNNY VERSES AND PICTURES] | |
| [The Frog’s Fiasco] | 160 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| [The Musical Trust] | 164 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| [The Cautious Cat] | 168 |
| By D. K. Stevens | |
| [Three Little Bears] | 171 |
| By M. C. McNeill | |
| [The Snowman] | 172 |
| By W. W. Ellsworth | |
| | |
| [ANIMAL STORIES] | |
| [Tiny Hare and the Wind Ball] | 173 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| [How Tiny Hare Met Cat] | 176 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| [The Wee Hare and the Red Fire] | 179 |
| By A. L. Sykes | |
| [The Good King] | 182 |
| By Margaret and Clarence Weed | |
| [Early and Late] | 184 |
| By W. S. Reed | |
| [The Little Pink Pig and the Big Road] | 185 |
| By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser | |
| [Juggerjook] | 188 |
| By L. Frank Baum | |
| [What You Burying, a Bone] | 194 |
| [The Little Gray Kitten] | 194 |
| By Mary Lawrence Turnbull | |
| [Pussy’s Wheels] | 197 |
| By Annie W. McCullough | |
| [The Small Gray Mouse] | 198 |
| By Nathan Haskell Dole | |
| [The Rabbit, the Turtle, and the Owl] | 200 |
| [Homes] | 201 |
| By Annie W. McCullough | |
| [Meal-Time in the Bear-Pits at the Zoo] | 202 |
| By I. W. Taben | |
| [The Fine Good Show] | 204 |
| By Jessie Wright Whitcomb | |
| [Gay and Spy] | 208 |
| [The Ballad of a Runaway Donkey] | 212 |
| By Emilie Poulsson | |
| [The Three Bears] | 220 |
| [The Little Bear’s Story] | 221 |
| By C. F. Holder | |
| [The Hare and the Hedgehog] | 224 |
| By The Brothers Grimm | |
| [The Wee Robin’s Christmas Song] | 226 |
| A Scotch Story, attributed to Robert Burns | |
| Adapted by Jennie Ellis Burdick | |
| [The Fox] | 228 |
| [Three Companions] | 229 |
| By Dinah Maria Mulock-Craik | |
| [“’Fraid Cat!”] | 230 |
| By Frank Munro | |
| [The Spider and the Fly] | 231 |
| By Mary Howitt | |
| | |
| [EVERY-DAY VERSES] | |
| [A Little Gentleman] | 233 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Time for Everything] | 233 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Umbrellas and Rubbers] | 234 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Whispering in School] | 234 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Recess] | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [After School] | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Monday’s Lessons] | 235 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [At Dinner] | 236 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Valor] | 237 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [A Domestic Tragedy] | 238 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [The Capitalist] | 239 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [In Merry England] | 240 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [The Goose Girl] | 241 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [The Philosopher] | 242 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Thirsty Flowers] | 243 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Sharing with Others] | 243 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Pockets] | 244 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [Waiting for Dinner] | 244 |
| By Alden Arthur Knipe | |
| [The Critic] | 245 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Diplomacy] | 246 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [If I Were Queen] | 247 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [Thoughts in Church] | 248 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| | |
| [THE DAYS OF THE WEEK] | |
| [This is the Way] | 249 |
| [Days of Birth] | 250 |
| [The Washing] | 250 |
| [Solomon Grundy] | 250 |
| [Baby’s Play Days] | 250 |
| [Which Do You Choose?] | 251 |
| [Seven Little Mice] | 251 |
| By Stella George Stern | |
| [Visiting] | 252 |
| [Little Tommy’s Monday Morning] | 252 |
| By Tudor Jenks | |
| [St. Saturday] | 254 |
| By Henry Johnstone | |
| | |
| [NUMBER RHYMES] | |
| [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] | 255 |
| [Over in the Meadow] | 255 |
| By Olive A. Wadsworth | |
| [Counting Apple-Seeds] | 256 |
| [Twins] | 257 |
| By Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
| [The Rhyme of Ten Little Rabbits] | 258 |
| By Kate N. Mytinger | |
| [In July] | 260 |
| By A. S. Webber | |
| [The Wish of Priscilla Penelope Powers] | 262 |
| By Mrs. John T. Van Sant | |
| [Winkelman Von Winkel] | 262 |
| By Clara Odell Lyon | |
| [Ten Little Cookies] | 263 |
| [Our Baby] | 263 |
| [Long Time Ago] | 264 |
| By Elizabeth Prentiss | |
| [Buckle My Shoe] | 264 |
| | |
| [STORIES FOR LITTLE GIRLS] | |
| [A Pair of Gloves] | 265 |
| By H. G. Duryée | |
| [A Very Little Story of a Very Little Girl] | 268 |
| By Alice E. Allen | |
| [Edith’s Tea Party] | 269 |
| By Lois Walters | |
| [Rebecca] | 271 |
| By Eleanor Piatt | |
| [Dorothea’s School Gifts] | 272 |
| By Eunice Ward | |
| [The Lost Money] | 276 |
| By Bolton Hall | |
| [A Dutch Treat] | 277 |
| By Amy B. Johnson | |
| [The Jingle of the Little Jap] | 283 |
| By Isabel Eccleston Mackay | |
| [The Seventh Birthday of the Little Cousin] | |
| [from Constantinople] | 284 |
| By Emma C. Dowd | |
| [Little Red Riding-Hood] | 286 |
| Retold from Grimm | |
| [Dolly’s Doctor] | 288 |
| [Thumbelina] | 288 |
| By Hans Christian Andersen | |
| [The Fox and the Little Red Hen] | 294 |
| [The Shoemaker and the Little Elves] | 294 |
| By The Brothers Grimm | |
| [The Gingerbread Boy] | 296 |
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| [STORIES FOR LITTLE BOYS] | |
| [Mischief] | 297 |
| By Rosamond Upham | |
| [Willie and His Dog Diver] | 299 |
| By H. N. Powers | |
| [Gordon’s Toy Castle on the Hill] | 300 |
| By Everett Wilson | |
| [Hans the Innocent] | 302 |
| Written and Illustrated by M. I. Wood | |
| [A Real Little Boy Blue] | 304 |
| By Caroline S. Allen | |
| [Travels of a Fox] | 306 |
| Adapted by Cecilia Farwell | |
| [Oeyvind and Marit] | 308 |
| | |
| [HAPPY DAYS] | |
| [What the Cat and Hen Did] | 313 |
| By Alice Ralston | |
| [Dot’s Birthday Cake] | 316 |
| [Ned and Rover and Jack] | 317 |
| [I Had a Little Kitten] | 318 |
| [How Polly Had Her Picture Taken] | 319 |
| By Everett Wilson | |
| [Idle Ben] | 321 |
| [The Hole in the Canna-Bed] | 321 |
| By Isabel Gordon Curtis | |
| [The Conceited Mouse] | 323 |
| By Ella Foster Case | |
| | |
| [RHYMES CONCERNING MOTHER] | |
| [A Boy’s Mother] | 325 |
| By James Whitcomb Riley | |
| [Mother] | 325 |
| By Rose Fyleman | |
| [The Goodest Mother] | 325 |
| [Mother’s Way] | 326 |
| By Carrie Williams | |
| [Who Is It?] | 326 |
| By Ethel M. Kelley | |
| [My Dearest Is a Lady] | 327 |
| By Miriam S. Clark | |
| [How Many Lumps?] | 327 |
| [When Mother Goes Away] | 328 |
| By Clara Odell Lyon | |
| [An Old Song—“There’s No Place Like Home!”] | 328 |
| By Blanche Elizabeth Wade | |
| | |
| [UNCLES AND AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES] | |
| [Grandmother’s Memories] | 329 |
| By Helen A. Byrom | |
| [Great-Aunt Lucy Lee] | 330 |
| By Cora Walker Hayes | |
| [Our Visitors] | 334 |
| By Isabel Lyndall | |
| [Beautiful Grandmamma] | 338 |
| [Thanksgiving Day] | 340 |
| By Lydia Maria Child | |
| [Grandma’s Minuet] | 340 |
| [Aunt Jan] | 341 |
| By Norman Gale | |
| [After Tea] | 342 |
| | |
| [AMUSING ALPHABETS] | |
| [Tingle, Tangle Titmouse] | 343 |
| [An English Alphabet] | 344 |
| [Nonsense Alphabet] | 346 |
| [Past History] | 348 |
| By Edward Lear | |
| [The Apple Pie] | 351 |
| [Who’s Who in the Zoo] | 352 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| [A Was an Archer] | 357 |
| [A Little Folks’ Alphabet] | 358 |
| By Carolyn Wells | |
| [Child Health Alphabet] | 360 |
| By Mrs. Frederick Peterson | |
| [Here’s A, B, C, D] | 363 |
| [Our Stories] | 364 |
