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A wonderful collection of nursery rhymes and childhood songs, verses and curiosities. Here you have international favourites like ‘Humpty Dumpty’ and Irish favourites like ‘Janey Mac’. There are great songs to sing, from ‘Mocking Bird’ to ‘Are Ye Right There, Michael?’. Rhymes to bounce baby on the knee, like ‘Horsie, Horsie’, rhymes that are just fun and nonsense, like ‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ and ‘Skinny Malink’.

Inspired by William Blake's work, Nancy Willard has written a book of magical poems about life at an imaginary inn, run by none other than William Blake himself.

The foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators - including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander - share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

This odd little nursery rhyme is familiar to us all but have you ever wondered, like I have, about what Miss Muffet was thinking as she sat dreamily eating her curds and whey? And what are curds and whey, anyway? Her tuffet? Would that be a piece of furniture or a piece of her anatomy? And of course the large spider, what was she thinking?

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. Young minds will stay busy in these wonderful book learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one forth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first forth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

Elementary Days is a great book for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The adventures of elementary and what can happen during the day while among school friends are endless. This wonderful book will keep them busy learning about the life of each grade with two fourth grade classes as the author is bounced from one fourth grade class to another right in the middle of the anticipated Christmas play at her first fourth grade school which she had to miss due to her moving to another part of town right before the play was to take place.

In 1943, Henny Sinding, only twenty-two years old, and the crew of Gerda lll, a lighthouse supply boat, risked everything to smuggle their Jewish compatriots across the Øresund strait to safety in Sweden during World War ll. In Henny’s words, “It was the right thing to do so we did it. Simple as that.” But what happened when their operation’s cover was blown and it was Henny’s turn to escape?

Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading - anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus Garvey finds a way to accept himself and a way to finally reach his distant father.

Journey to the enchanted garden of Shut-Eye Town to discover "The Sugar-Plum Tree" and sail away in a wooden shoe into a sea of dew with "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod". This includes readings of all eight poems.

Preschoolers will love singing along to this song collection during long car rides, playtime and more! This audiobook includes the most memorable nursery rhymes that even you will remember, like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Hey Diddle, Diddle", "Little Boy Blue", "The Farmer in the Dell", "London Bridge", "This Little Pig", "A Tisket a Tasket", "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone", "Jack and Jill", "This Old Man", "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", "Little Bo Peep", "Little Jack Horner", "The Mulberry Bush", "Sing a Song of Sixpence", and "Ring Around the Rosy".

Good-bye, hello, welcome, and good night. Introducing the wonderful world of Sir Silly. He was born before time, and so he has no time for such time that was before that time. He thinks in rhyme and always lets his imagination dance freely. Sir Silly is all he can be, to be as silly as he can. Sir Silly is very serious about being silly.

Not everything in this book is necessarily good advice, and not all of it is sensible advice. (But if you take the bad or unsensible advice and don’t follow it, then it may become useful advice in its own way.) Filled with silly rhymes, witty wordplay and thought-provoking story poems, this collection will delight children of all ages.

Poetry for all seasons for young listeners. Includes poems about nature, the landscape, the weather, and children’s experiences of the seasons, from ice cream to Christmas trees. Poems read by legendary Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston, as well as four poems set to music and performed by Irish musician, Enda Reilly. Perfect for children ages 8+.

Two old poems of exciting events for the children in all of us.... Paul Revere's exciting midnight ride to warn all the neighbors in the countryside that the British were coming - one light if by land and two if by sea. And The Pied Piper of Hamelin.... He got rid of the pesky, hated rats, but when the villagers refused to pay for his services, the Pied Piper took matters into his own hands...and the villagers paid a very dear price, indeed, in the end.