Everyday Classics First ReaderA collection of classics in children's literature, prose and verse, selected to stimulate children's interest and reading ability. |
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Fannie Wyche Dunn, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike. Baa , baa , black sheep , Have you any wool ? Yes , sir , I have Three bags full . One for my master , One for my dame , But none for the little boy Who cries in the lane ...
Fannie Wyche Dunn, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike. Baa , baa , black sheep , Have you any wool ? Yes , sir , I have Three bags full . One for my master , One for my dame , But none for the little boy Who cries in the lane ...
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Everyday Classics: Eighth Reader, the Introduction to Literature (Classic ... Franklin Thomas Baker No preview available - 2015 |
Everyday Classics First Reader Fannie Wyche Dunn,Franklin T. Baker,Ashley H. Thorndike No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
ants Bake our bread beat dog bite pig Blackbird was singing boots broom sweeps bumpety burn stick butcher butter cake caged and hung chair hops CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Christmas Day cracks the paw cried Blackbird crooked crying dicky bird Dumpty earth is falling earth shall ring eats the mouse elephants Eyvind fight the King Friday's child giant goat going to Jerusalem hickory hides the sun home to-night Iron our clothes Johnny Green jumped kittens lamb Little Jack Frost LITTLE Jack Horner Little John-ny Love Little Pussy Marit Marquis of Carabas melts the snow Mend our clothes Monday's child mulberry bush old bench old woman tugged parlor pieman rich Marquis river rope SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Scrub the floor Simple Simon sing On Christmas stile stops the wind Sweep the house Tatty Mouse Tatty weeps Thursday's child Titty is dead trip-trap turnip Wash our clothes wife caged WILLIAM CANTON
Popular passages
Page 89 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 27 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 10 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 25 - Rock-a-bye, baby, On the tree top. When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks. The cradle will fall, And down will come baby. Cradle and all.
Page 64 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king! The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey.
Page 8 - I like little Pussy, Her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her She'll do me no harm. So I'll not pull her tail, Nor drive her away, But Pussy and I Very gently will play...
Page 7 - Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Page 135 - MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, That was against the rule; It made the children laugh and play, To see a lamb at school.
Page 91 - Here we go round the mulburry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, Here we go round the mulberry bush so early in the morning.
Page 112 - THERE was a little girl, who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead, And when she was good, she was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.