A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One

by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes

Table of Contents

Seven Little Chicks

Once I Saw a Little Bird

The North Wind Doth Blow

Some Little Mice

Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee

Little Cock-Sparrow

There Was a Little Robin

Blow, Wind, Blow

Daffy-Down-Dilly

Lock the Dairy Door

The Clucking Hen

Little Brown Bobby

Sing, Little Bird

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Three Little Maidens

Bimble, Bamble, Bumble

Precocious Piggy

A Farmer Went Riding

A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go

The Light-Hearted Fairy

The Man in the Moon

Buttercup

Moon, So Round and Yellow

Shoe or Stocking

When the Sleepy Man Comes

Will You Be My Little Wife

Bunches of Grapes

The Coming of Spring

What Can I Give Him?

Rockaby, Lullaby

I Would Like You for a Comrade

The Little Maiden and the Little Bird

Wee Willie Winkie

To the Sun Door

The Bow That Bridges Heaven

The Peddler's Caravan

Swallow, Swallow

Seven Times One

Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout

How To Get a Breakfast

Three Little Owlets

Over in the Meadow

Elf and Dormouse

Old Dame Cricket

The Little Elf-Man

Little Jack Frost

How the Little Kite Learned To Fly

The Rainbow Fairies

The Quarrelsome Kittens

Who Likes the Rain?

Grasshopper Green

I Love You, Mother

Minnie and Mattie

Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education

An Old Rat's Tale

Who Stole the Bird's Nest

Thanksgiving Day

The Robber Kitten

Spring's Waking

One, Two, Three

The Rock-a-By Lady

Buttercup

What makes the buttercup so yellow?
Oh, he caught a golden sunbeam in his cup 
And wouldn't give it up—
The saucy fellow!

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