Introduction -- Nature Is : -- Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander -- I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Anonymous -- Universe / Mary Britton Miller -- Measurement / A M Sullivan -- On the Bridge / Kate Greenaway -- Flint / Christina Rossetti -- Wolf Cry / Lew Sarett -- Secret song / Margaret Wise Brown -- Last rites / Christina Rossetti -- Trees / Sara Coleridge -- Crocus / Walter Crane -- Dandelion / Hilda Conkling -- Ferns / Gene Baro -- Birch trees / John Richard Moreland -- Wind-wolves / William D Sargent -- Wind / James Reeves -- Mountain wind / Barbara Kunz Loots -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- Mountain brook / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- River winding / Charlotte Zolotow -- Water's edge / Lillian Morrison -- Mud / Polly Chase Boyden -- Muddy puddle / Dennis Lee -- Sea shell / Amy Lowell -- Sea / Anonymous -- Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore -- Rain has silver sandals / May Justus -- Rain clouds / Elizabeth-Ellen Long -- To walk in warm rain / David McCord -- Rhyme / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- More it snows / A A Milne -- First snow / Marie Louise Allen -- When all the world is full of snow / N M Bodecker -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Snowflake / Walter de la Mare -- Check / James Stephens -- Moon's the north wind's cooky / Vachel Lindsay -- Star / Jane Taylor -- Night comes / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- Night / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Silver / Walter de la Mare -- Night is a big black cat / G Orr Clark -- Four Seasons : -- Months / Sara Coleridge -- Four seasons / Anonymous -- January / John Updike -- Martin Luther King / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Lincoln / Nancy Byrd Turner -- Ground hog day / Lilian Moore -- Beyond winter / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Valentine / Shel Silverstein -- Ice / Charles G D Roberts -- Washington / Nancy Byrd Turner -- Smells / Kathryn Worth -- February twilight / Sara Teasdale -- Paper dragons / Susan M Schmeltz -- Maple feast / Frances Frost -- When / Dorothy Aldis -- Daylight saving time / Phyllis McGinley -- March / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- March wind / Anonymous -- Wearing of the green / Aileen Fisher -- Spring rain / Marchette Chute -- Ode to spring / Walter R Brooks -- Easter / Joyce Kilmer -- Spring is / Bobbi Katz -- On mother's day / Aileen Fisher -- Spring / Karla Kuskin -- Good-by my winter suit / N M Bodecker -- Moment in summer / Charlotte Zolotow -- Rocket in my pocket / Anonymous -- Maytime magic / Mable Watts -- Summer / Frank Asch -- Joyful / Rose Burgunder -- October / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- October / Maurice Sendak -- August / John Updike -- Harvest home / Arthur Guiterman -- This is Halloween / Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Lazy witch / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Thanksgiving magic / Rowena Bastin Bennett -- 12 October / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Thanksgiving / Ivy O Eastwick -- Thanksgiving day / L Maria Child -- Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher -- Children's Carol / Eleanor Farjeon -- Winter moon / Langston Hughes -- I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford -- Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher -- From : a Christmas package / David McCord -- Visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats : -- Waltzer in the house / Stanley Kunitz -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- Chipmunk's song / Randall Jarrell -- To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / William Butler Yeats -- Rabbit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Hedgehog / J J Bell -- Bat / Theodore Roethke -- Bat / Frank Jacobs -- Sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Camel / Alan Brownjohn -- Camel's complaint / Charles Edward Carryl -- Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg -- Hippopotamus / Jack Prelutsky -- Holding hands / Lenore M Link -- Oliphaunt / JRR Tolkien -- Wolf / Georgia Roberts Durston -- Beside the line of elephants / Edna Becker -- Four little foxes / Lew Sarett -- Grandpa bear's lullaby / Jane Yolen -- Lesser lynx / E V Rieu -- Polar bear / Gail Kredenser -- Lion / Jack Prelutsky -- Lion / William Jay Smith -- Leopard / Gretchen Kreps -- Seal / William Jay Smith -- Performing seal / Rachel Field -- Donkey / Anonymous -- Wild, the free / Lord Byron -- Mandrill / Conrad Aiken -- Ode to the pig : his tail / Walter R Brooks -- Pig /Roland Young -- Hairy dog / Herbert Asquith -- Pig is never blamed / Babette Deutsch -- Cow / Ogden Nash -- Roger the dog / Ted Hughes -- Lone dog / Irene McLeod -- Sunning / James S Tippett -- Bliss / Eleanor Farjeon -- I've got a dog / Anonymous -- His highness's dog / Anonymous -- Cat of cats / William Brighty Rands -- Cat in despondency / Anonymous -- Cats of kilkenny / Anonymous -- Country barnyard / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Cats / Eleanor Farjeon -- Cat / Mary Britton Miller -- Little things / James Stephens -- Feather or fur / John Becker -- Cat's menu / Richard Shaw -- Ways Of Living Things : -- Hey, Bug! / Lilian Moore -- Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti -- Green stems / Margaret Wise Brown -- Bug sat in a silver flower / Karla Kuskin -- Crickets / Valerie Worth -- Praying mantis / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Walter R Brooks -- Wasps / Dorothy Aldis -- Flea / Roland Young -- Bug in a jug / Anonymous -- Bug / Marjorie Barrows -- Oh the toe-test! / Norma Farber -- When mosquitoes make a meal / Else Holmelund Minarik -- Cockroaches / Kaye Starbird -- Dragonfly / Eleanor Farjeon -- Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost -- Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti -- Tickle rhyme / Ian Serraillier -- Ladybug / Joan Walsh Anglund -- Codfish / Anonymous -- Wee little worm / James Whitcomb Riley -- Flattered flying fish / E V Rieu -- Long gone / Jack Prelutsky -- Shark / Lord Alfred Douglas -- Fishes' evening song / Dahlov Ipcar -- Sally and Manda / Alice B Campbell -- Lizard / John Gardner -- Boa / J J Bell -- Brontosaurus / Gail Kredenser -- Desert tortoise / Byrd Baylor -- Frog / Hilaire Belloc -- Crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Samuel / Bobbi Katz -- Tree frog / John Travers Moore -- Hummingbird / Michael Flanders -- Polliwog / Arthur Guiterman -- Baby talk / Anna Bird Stewart -- Canary / Ogden Nash -- Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame -- Duck / Richard Digance -- Blackbird / Humbert Wolfe -- Sea gull / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Sandpiper / Frances Frost -- Sandpiper / Witter Bynner -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Hen / Lord Alfred Douglas -- Night heron / Frances Frost -- Vulture / Hilaire Belloc -- Sparrow hawk / Russell Hoban -- Eagle / Alfred Tennyson -- City, Oh City!: -- Just for one day / Lillian Morrison -- Riveter / Mabel Watts -- Gift with the wrappings off / Mary Elizabeth Counselman -- City, city / Marci Ridlon -- Sing a song of subways / Eve Merriam -- Things to do if you are a subway / Bobbi Katz -- Flowers are a silly bunch / Arnold Spilka -- Rudolph is tired of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks -- That May morning / Leland B Jacobs -- Umbilical / Eve Merriam -- Sunrise / Frank Asch -- People / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- People upstairs / Ogden Nash -- Zebra / Judith Thurman -- Crowds / Virginia Schonborg -- Concrete mixers / Patricia Hubbell -- They've all gone south / Mary Britton Miller -- Pigeons / Lilian Moore -- Sing a song of people / Lois Lenski -- Stickball / Virginia Schonborg -- Sad song about Greenwich village / Frances Park -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Alley cat school / Frank Asch -- Open hydrant / Marci Ridlon -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- City lights / Rachel Field -- Rainy nights / Irene Thompson -- City / Langston Hughes -- Frightening / Claudia Lewis -- Where are you now? / Mary Britton Miller -- Foghorns / Lilian Moore -- City dump / Felice Holman -- Cockpit in the clouds / Dick Dorrance.

Children, Children Everywhere : -- Hug o' war / Shel Silverstein -- Advice to small children / Edward Anthony -- Joke / Anonymous -- Changing / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Somebody / Anonymous -- I saw a little girl I hate / Arnold Spilka -- Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Clyde Watson -- Love / William Jay Smith -- I love you / Anonymous -- Question / Anonymous -- I hate Harry / Miriam Chaikin -- Puzzle / Arnold Spilka -- John, Tom, and James / Charles Henry Ross -- Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Dennis Lee -- Yip-yap rattletrap / Clyde Watson -- Tag along / Nina Payne -- Ten kinds / Mary Mapes Dodge -- There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Two people / E V Rieu -- Read this with gestures / John Ciardi -- Table manners / Gelett Burgess -- Jack / Charles Henry Ross -- Bubble gum / Nina Payne -- Did you? / William Cole -- Why run? / Norah Smaridge -- Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Heinrich Hoffman -- Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird -- Tired Tim / Walter de la Mare -- Wendy in winter / Kaye Starbird -- Tony baloney / Dennis Lee -- Fernando / Marci Ridlon -- Queenie / Leland B Jacobs -- Jessica Jane / May Justus -- Follow the leader / Kathleen Fraser -- Freddy / Dennis Lee -- Girls can, too! / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- No girls allowed / Jack Prelutsky -- Little Clotilda / Anonymous -- We're racing, racing down the walk / Phyllis McGinley -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E E Cummings -- Wrestling / Kathleen Fraser -- Measles / Kaye Starbird -- Barbershop / Martin Gardner -- Wiggly giggles / Stacy Jo Crossen and Natalie Anne Covell -- Since Hanna moved away / Judith Viorst -- Lullaby / Lewis Carroll -- What in the world? / Eve Merriam -- Me I Am!: -- My name is / Pauline Clarke -- Me / Walter de la Mare -- My father owns the butcher shop / Anonymous -- I am Rose / Gertrude Stein -- Me / Karla Kuskin -- Every time I climb a tree / David McCord -- Reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni -- Mark's fingers / Mary O'Neill -- When I was lost / Dorothy Aldis -- Keziah / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Just me / Margaret Hillert -- How to get there / Bonnie Nims -- Wolf / Osage Indian -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Sulk / Felice Holman -- If no one ever marries me / Laurence Alma-Tadema -- Broom balancing / Kathleen Fraser -- About feet / Margaret Hillert -- On the skateboard / Lillian Morrison -- I can fly / Felice Holman -- Basketball / Nikki Giovanni -- Basketball star / Karama Fufuka -- Song / Ruth Krauss -- Growing up / Harry Behn -- Marrog / R C Scriven -- Everybody says / Dorothy Aldis -- Stupid old myself / Russell Hoban -- Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Arnold Spilka -- Surprises / Jean Conder Soule -- If we didn't have birthdays / Dr Seuss -- History / Myra Cohn Livingston -- I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz -- I'm really not lazy / Arnold Spilka -- Winter clothes / Karla Kuskin -- I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson -- Yawning / Eleanor Farjeon -- Rhinos purple, hippos green / Michael Patrick Hearn -- One day when we went walking / Valine Hobbs -- Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside : -- Wrong start / Marchette Chute -- Mother's nerves / X J Kennedy -- John / N M Bodecker -- Waking / Lilian Moore -- Mother doesn't want a dog / Judith Viorst -- Amelia mixed the mustard / A E Housman -- I wish I could meet the man that knows / John Ciardi -- Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst -- First tooth / Charles and Mary Lamb -- Bringing up babies / Roy Fuller -- Six weeks old / Christopher Morley -- Help! / X J Kennedy -- Lil' bro' / Karama Fufuka -- My brother / Marci Ridlon -- Leave me alone / Felice Holman -- Myra song / John Ciardi -- Let other share / Edward Anthony -- In the motel / X J Kennedy -- Rules / Karla Kuskin -- Runaway / Bobbi Katz -- Soap / Martin Gardner -- What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / John Ciardi -- They're calling / Felice Holman -- Going up / John Travers Moore -- Up in the pine / Nancy Dingman Watson -- Homework / Jane Yolen -- Homework / Russell Hoban -- Hot line / Louella Dunann -- I'm alone in the evening / Michael Rosen -- Winning of the TV west / John T Alexander -- Middle of the night / Karla Kuskin -- Our house / Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Two people / Eve Merriam -- I'm Hungry!: -- My mouth / Arnold Adoff -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Tomorrow's the fair / Anonymous -- Turtle soup / Lewis Carroll -- Oodles of noodles / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr -- Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi -- Egg thoughts / Russell Hoban -- Pie problem / Shel Silverstein -- Meg's Egg / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Celery / Ogden Nash -- Taste of purple / Leland B Jacobs -- Chocolate cake / Nina Payne -- Patience / Bobbi Katz -- My little sister / William Wise -- Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Fay Maschler -- Chocolate, chocolate / Arnold Adoff -- Thousand hairy savages / Spike Milligan -- I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous -- Accidentally / Maxine W Kumin -- I raised a great hullabaloo / Anonymous -- Twickham tweer / Jack Prelutsky -- Worm / Ralph Bergengren -- Pizza / Ogden Nash -- Soliloquy of a tortoise / E V Rieu -- Mr Pratt / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Sneaky Bill / William Cole -- Some People I Know : -- Some people / Rachel Field -- People / Charlotte Zolotow -- Routine / Arthur Guiterman -- Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- Smart / Shel Silverstein -- One misty, moisty morning / Anonymous -- Thoughts on talkers / Walter R Brooks -- My brother Bert / Ted Hughes -- Grandpapa / Harry Graham -- Growing old / Rose Henderson -- Grandpa dropped his glasses / Leroy R Jackson -- Manners / Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- Uncle / Harry Graham -- Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Mary O'Neill -- Godmother / Phyllis B Morden -- Too many dayes / Dr Seuss -- Little boy and the old man / Shel Silverstein -- Tombstone / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr -- Air traveler / Lillian Morrison -- House-for sale / Leonard Clark -- Jittery Jim / William Jay Smith -- On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Doctor Emmanuel / James Reeves -- Hog-calling competition / Morris Bishop -- Old Quin queeribus / Nancy Byrd Turner -- There was on old man with a beard / Edward Lear -- Jonathan Bing / Beatrice Curtis Brown -- Poor old lady / Anonymous -- Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Anonymous -- Solomon Grundy / Anonymous -- Mr Kartoffel / James Reeves -- Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl -- Sugar lady / Frank Asch -- Lord Cray / Edward Gorey -- Together / Paul Engle -- Opposite of two / Richard Wilbur -- Sir Smasham uppe / E V Rieu -- Nonsense! Nonsense!: -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Toot! toot! / Anonymous -- Higglety, pigglety, pop! / Samuel Goodrich -- On the ning nang nong / Spike Milligan -- Common cormorant / Christopher Isherwood -- McIntosh apple / Steven Kroll -- Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Frederick J Forster -- Butterfly's ball / William Roscoe -- Contrary waiter / Edgar Parker -- Whoops! / Anonymous -- Way down south / Anonymous -- Duel / Eugene Field -- Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Hare and the pig / L J Bridgman -- Alligator / Mary Macdonald -- Lizard / Theodore Roethke -- Serpent / Theodore Roethke -- Shark / J J Bell -- I had a little pig / Anonymous -- Ants at the Olympics / Richard Digance -- Animal fair / Anonymous -- Purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- I asked my mother / Anonymous -- Algy met a bear / Anonymous -- Walrus / Michael Flanders -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Alligator pie / Dennis Lee -- Beela by the sea / Leroy R Jackson -- You must never bath in the Irish stew / Spike Milligan -- Did you ever go fishing? / Anonymous -- Sensitive, seldom and sad / Mervyn Peake -- Josephine / Alexander Resnikoff -- Folk who live in backward town / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Father William / Lewis Carroll -- Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Dylan Thomas -- Snail's dream / Oliver Herford -- Twins / Henry S Leigh -- New vestments / Edward Lear -- Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Jack Prelutsky -- Don't worry if your job is small / Anonymous -- Number nine, Penwiper mews / Edward Gorey -- Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham -- Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Shel Silverstein -- Young lady of Lynn / Anonymous -- Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky.

Alphabet Stew : -- Fly and a flea in a flue / Anonymous -- Cow / Jack Prelutsky -- Tutor / Carolyn Wells -- Weather / Anonymous -- Two witches / Alexander Resnikoff -- Antonio / Laura E Richards -- Habits of the hippopotamus / Arthur Guiterman -- Bluffalo / Jane Yolen -- Moses / Anonymous -- Puffin / Robert Williams Wood -- Eletelephony / Laura E Richards -- Mr Bidery's spidery garden / David McCord -- Ptarmigan / Anonymous -- Banananananananana / William Cole -- Clickbeetle / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / N M Bodecker -- Modern Hiawatha / George A Strong -- Misnomer / Eve Merriam -- To be or not to be / Anonymous -- Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Jack Prelutsky -- Have you ever seen? / Anonymous -- Waiters / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Atrocious pun / Anonymous -- Wild flowers / Peter Newell -- J's the jumping jay-walker / Phyllis McGinley -- Poetry / Eleanor Farjeon -- Lumps / Judith Thurman -- Word / Emily Dickinson -- Yak / Jack Prelutsky -- Feelings about words / Mary O'Neill -- Where Goblins Dwell : -- Some one / Walter del la Mare -- Ghosts / Harry Behn -- Something is there / Lilian Moore -- Horseman / Walter de la Mare -- Hist whist / e e Cummings -- What's that? / Florence Parry Heide -- Green candles / Humbert Wolfe -- Witch! the witch! / Eleanor Farjeon -- Song of the witches / William Shakespeare -- Owl / Sylvia Read -- Wanted-a witch's cat / Shelagh McGee -- Eight witches / B J Lee -- Witches' menu / Sonja Nikolay -- Queen Nefertiti / Anonymous -- Colonel Fazackerley / Charles Causley -- Song of the ogres / W H Auden -- Three ghostesses / Anonymous -- Darkling elves / Jack Prelutsky -- Elf and the dormouse / Oliver Herford -- Bogeyman / Jack Prelutsky -- Troll / Jack Prelutsky -- Wendigo / Ogden Nash -- Father and mother / X J Kennedy -- Fairies / William Allingham -- Great auk's ghost / Ralph Hodgson -- Pumpkin / Robert Graves -- Seven ages of elf-hood / Rachel Field -- Unicorn / William Jay Smith -- How to tell goblins from elves / Monica Shannon -- Little man / Hughes Mearns -- Gumble / Michael Dugan -- Slithegadee / Shel Silverstein -- Bogus-boo / James Reeves -- Wrimples / Jack Prelutsky -- Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Miriam Chaikin -- Spangled pandemonium / Palmer Brown -- Creature in the classroom / Jack Prelutsky -- Dinky / Theodore Roethke -- Plumpuppets / Christopher Morley -- Could it have been a shadow? / Monica Shannon -- Land Of Potpourri : -- Happy thought / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Our washing machine / Patricia Hubbell -- Introduction to songs of innocence / William Blake -- No holes marred / Suzanne Douglass -- Steam shovel / Charles Malam -- Toaster / William Jay Smith -- Tin frog / Russell Hoban -- Driving to the beach / Joanna Cole -- My nose / Dorothy Aldis -- From : the bed book / Sylvia Plath -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- What is pink? / Christina Rossetti -- What is orange? / Mary O'Neill -- To be answered in our next issue / Anonymous -- Base stealer / Robert Francis -- What is red? / Mary O'Neill -- Who's in / Elizabeth Fleming -- Library / Barbara A Huff -- Knockout / Lillian Morrison -- Foul shot / Edwin A Hoey -- Yellow / David McCord -- Football game / Alice Van Eck -- Maps / Dorothy Brown Thompson -- If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Field -- Train song / Diane Siebert -- Travel / Edna St Vincent Millay -- Flight plan / Jane Merchant -- To an aviator / Daniel Whitehead Hicky -- Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / Patricia Hubbell -- From a railway carriage / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Toad / Robert S Oliver -- This little pig built a spaceship / Frederick Winsor -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- Far trek / June Brady -- How strange it is / Claudia Lewis -- Paint box / E V Rieu -- Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- To dark eyes dreaming / Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- About the author/illustrator.