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She had so many children she didn't know what to do."
I always envied that old woman her opportunity. I should have set those
children all down on little stools in a neat circle around the shoe,
and read to them out of poetry-books. And they would all have been as
good as gold too.
Perhaps you think this is the romantic dream of one who knows not the
ways of a child? But it isn't a dream at all; it is a fact founded upon
an axiom which I, and many wiser than I, have evolved out of experience,
namely: "Most normal children love poetry." Moreover, most normal
children, as well as most grown-ups, are good when they have what they
like. Consequently, my circle of children around the show would, in all
probability, have been as good as gold.
To return for a moment to my axiom. If children did not, as a rule,
love poetry,--verses, jingles, anything with a rhythm to it, --why
should our kindergartens devote so much time to the little songs and
poems which the children learn so eagerly? Why should half the children
illustrated editions of all kinds of verses, from Mother Goose and
Edward Lear to Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"? Why should it be
so rare a thing for any well-brought-up infant to parts to attain his
fifth year without the accomplishment of mounting a stool and reciting
"the friendly cow all red and white," or some other infants' classic?
Why should Sunday schools teach religion in children's hymns and other
verses? And why, even, should mothers, until modern times, have rocked
their babies rhythmically to sleep to the sound of a measured lullaby? Magee.
Little Songs and Poems: For Reading, Reciting, Remembering and some for Coloring:
Little Songs and Poems: For Reading, Reciting, Remembering and some for Coloring:
- Paper Doll Poem by Pauline King
- Goodnight by Crawford Neil
- The Clothes-Pin Dollies by Camilla J. Knight
- My Doll by Author Unknown
- The Doll Bed by Minerva Hunter
- The Sand Man by Dodge and Stilwell
- The Fairy Ching Lu and His Bothersome Queue by Anna M. Scott
- One & One
- A Fairy Necklace by Enid Blyton
- My Three Dolls by Isabel Allardyce
- Little Miss Limberkin
- At the Doll's Hospital by Anne P. L. Field
- Wake Up Birdie!
- A Valentine for Old Dolls by Rachel Field
- Creation by Edward P. Butler
- Christmas Song
- Fellow Travelers by Pauline Frances Camp
- Mr. Big Toe
- Dolly's Wings by Laura Loring
- I'm Such A Little Tot by J. H. G.
- A Child's Troubles from St. Nicholas
- Hang Up The Baby's Stocking
- Charley Boy by Eliza Lee Follen
- Grandma Always Does by Unknown Author
- The Long Ago Doll by Marjorie Barrows
- A Teeny-Tiny Story
- Sleepy Dandelions by Harriot Putnam
- Dolly's Toilet
- Going To Bed by Unknown Author
- Little Whimpy by Mary Mapes Dodge
- The Little Angel from Melodies of Childhood
- The Naughty Kitten-Cat by Florence Crocker Comfort
- A Thanksgiving Dinner
- December by Arthur Jerome
- The Coming Storm by William Brightly Rands
- Stop, Stop, Pretty Water! by Eliza Lee Follen
- Dolly Asleep by Keeler
- Two Little Beds by Elizabeth Ellis Scantlebury
- A Housekeeper's Troubles by Unknown Author
- Birdies With Broken Wings
- To The Fire-Fly by Thomas Moore
- The Paris Doll by Caroline Morgan
- Dolly Takes Tea by Albert Bigelow Paine
- A Dolls Wedding by Lucy Larcom
- Five Kernels of Corn
- October Thoughts by Unknown Author
- Merry Autumn Days by Charles Dickens
- Dolly's Doctor
- The Spinning Wheel at Rest by Edward A. Jenks
- The Old Home by Arthur Burdick
- An Old Rat's Tale by Author Unknown
- The Night Before Thanksgiving by Eva Lovett Carson
- A Thanksgiving Acrostic by Susan M. Best
- Dance Of The Months
- The Silent Pool by Enid Blyton
- Christmas Morning by Burges Johnson
- The New Year by Luranah Hammond
- Naming The Doll by Caroline Morgan
- "I had a little doll"
- Ode To The New Year by Charlotte C. Davenport
- Birthdays by Maud Keary
- To Father Christmas by Maud Keary
- "If I were an artist"...
- Asleep by Edward A. Jenks
- A Jewish Home by Jessie Sampter
- The Good Night by John Martin
- "Company Manners"
- The Lost Doll by Charles Kingsley
- The Moon at Tea-Time by Enid Blyton
- Mama Old Year and Baby New by L. L. Greene Richards
- Flower Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston
- Shamrock Song by Katherine Tynan
- St. Patrick's Day Jig and Sheet Music
- Rebecca
- Your Heart is A Music Box by Frances Sargent Osgood
- The White Rabbits by Edith Campbell
- Waking to Life by Hannah Kohaus
- The Sewing Doll by Amelia De Wolfjers
- The Paper House by Harriet McLear
- The Rhyme of The House by Grace L. Klock
- Taking Tea by Author Unknown
- Free Children's Hymns for The Christian Home
- Learning Their Letters
- On Strike by Enid Blyton
- Sabbath Morning
- The Noah's Ark by Katherine Pyle
- A Ghost! by Elizabeth Betts
- The Naughty Doll
- The Bear Hunt by Margaret Widdemer
- The Nicest One
- Teddy Brown-Bear by Florence M. Pettee
- Dolly's Lesson
- Mother's Pincushion by Harriet Hunting Pierson
- Dolly's Pocket
- The Old Doll by Seegmiller
- Since Will Turned Into a Boy... by F. A. Steele
- Dolly's Mamma
- The Merry-Go-Round by Clinton Scollard
- The Hollyhock Fairy by M. D. Cole
- Tomorrow's The First of May by Pauline More Wetzel
- May Dance by Josephine Van Dolzen Pease
- The May-Day Piper by Anna Medary
- Democracy by Isabel L. Whitney
- Growing... by Frances Camp Duggar
- The New Doll by Seegmiller
- Lullaby by Margaret Mitchell Wilcox
- Sunbeams by Edith Lombard Squires
- Birds In Winter by Mrs. A.A. Whetstone
- When Mother was a little girl by Anna Medary
- The Bird House by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
- Summering by Blanche Elizabeth Wade
- Our Sand Pile by Anna Medary
- A Lit-tle Moth-er
- April by Eleanor Hammond
- The Rainbow Land by Bertha Carman Herbst
- Indian Children by Annette Wynne
- Caterpillar On The Wall by Marion Ryan
- Parasol by Helen Wing
- Did You Know? by Louise Marshall Haynes
- April Fool by Anna Medary
- The Land of Fairy Tales
- Spring by Betty Alsterlund
- Mud Pies author unknown
- Grandma's Specs by Edith White
- The Howl Wind by Winifred V. Jordan
- A Mis-take Poem author unknown
- The Fairy School by Marjorie Barrows
- The Popping Corn Poem
- Why Little Children Love Poetry
- One Reason Older Children Dislike Poetry Is Because They Don't Read It Well
- The Schools Can Help Them Love Poetry
- But the Home Can Do Even More in This Direction
- Another Reason for the Dislike of Poetry Is Because It Meets No Felt Want
- How to Cause the Need of Poetry to Be Felt
- The Value, for Children, of Different Classes of Poetry
"Rhymers are Readers: The Importance of Nursery Rhymes: They're fun,
children love them, and they provide a warm nurturing experience between
parent and child. Songs and rhymes for young children have been passed
down for generations. This workshop creates an awareness of the enormous
educational value of nursery rhymes and informs parents and caregivers
how to use them as a teaching tool." video and workshops from KBYUEleven
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