Title:
The Read-aloud treasury
JLCTITLE245:
compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson ; illustrated by Ann Schweninger.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, c1988.
Physical Description:
255 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780385185608
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Abstract:
An illustrated collection of classic and modern nursery rhymes, poems, stories, and activity games for preschoolers through age five. The Read-Aloud Treasury makes finding good children's literature easy. It includes over thirty popular Mother Goose rhymes; poetry from renowned authors like Arnold Lobel and Jack Prelutsky; world-famous picture stories, many with their original illustrations.
Contents:
Pat-a-cake -- Brow, brow brinkie -- This little pig went to market -- Humpty dumpty -- Old woman who lived in a shoe -- Rub-a-dub-dub -- One, two, buckle my shoe -- Ladybird ladybird -- Old king cole -- I saw a ship a-sailing -- Ride a cock-horse -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- Diddlety, diddlety, dumpty -- Where has my little dog gone? -- Three little kittens -- Mary had a little lamb -- Little boy blue -- There was a crooked man -- Old woman who lived under the hill -- Little Bo Peep -- Rain, rain, go away -- Jack be nimble -- Jack and Jill -- Deedle, deedle, dumpling -- Hey, diddle, diddle -- To market, to market -- Three blind mice -- There was a bee -- Ring around the rosie -- Mistress Mary, quite contrary -- Seesaw, Margery Daw -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Hoppity / A.A. Milne -- Do the baby cake-walk / Clyde Watson -- Baby's drinking song / James Kirkup -- Popcorn hop / Stephanie Calmenson -- Three guests / Jessica Nelson North -- After a bath / Aileen Fisher -- Little pictures / Arnold Lobel -- First snow / Marie Louise Allen -- Mitten song / Marie Louise Allen -- Umbrella brigade / Laura E. Richards -- Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Mud / John Smith -- Merry-go-round / Stephanie Calmenson -- Play / Frank Asch -- Man who sang the sillies / John Ciardi -- Barnyard chat / Stephanie Calmenson -- Today is a day to crow about / Jack Prelutsky -- Kittens / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- Please / Stephanie Calmenson -- It does not say meow / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- House is a house for me / Mary Ann Hoberman -- My name is / Pauline Clarke -- Hello, hello, hello, sir -- Spelling lesson / Stephanie Calmenson -- Way down South -- Sailor song -- Traditional -- Own and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Sleepy mouse / Joanna Cole -- Stories: Litte bear goes to the moon / Else Holmelund Minarik -- Three billy goats gruff -- Little red riding hood -- Dinner guests (African folktale) / retold by Stephanie Calennson -- Sylvester and the magic pebble / William Steig -- Gingerbread man -- Three little pigs -- Angus and the cat / Majorie Flack -- Man who didn't wash his dished / Phullis Krasilovsky -- Lion and the mouse (Aesop fable) / retold by Stephanie Calmenson -- Corduroy / Don Freeman -- Very tall mouse and very short mouse / Arnold Lobel -- Goldilocks and the three bears -- Play and learn: Fingerplays -- Ali gator and Annie gator say the alphabet -- Here, puppy! Counting story -- Four seasons -- Ali gator and Annie gator in opposites all! -- Stop, monkey, stop! A rebus -- Ali gator and Annie gator in roller skates: Wordless story -- Can you find it? -- Indexes.