A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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Episodes
Preface
Episode 0 · 5:38
Merry are the Bells
Episode 1 · 1:18
Safe in Bed
Episode 2 · 28s
Jenny Wren
Episode 3 · 41s
Curly Locks
Episode 4 · 28s
Pussy-Cat Mew
Episode 5 · 26s
Draw a Pail of Water
Episode 6 · 26s
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
Episode 7 · 47s
The Nut-Tree
Episode 8 · 33s
My Maid Mary
Episode 9 · 31s
The Wind and the Fisherman
Episode 10 · 34s
Blow, Wind, Blow
Episode 11 · 28s
All Busy
Episode 12 · 26s
Winter Has Come
Episode 13 · 26s
Poor Robin
Episode 14 · 28s
I Have a Little Sister
Episode 15 · 34s
In Marble Walls
Episode 16 · 37s
The Moon by Eliza Lee Follen
Episode 17 · 51s
The Star by A. and J. Taylor
Episode 18 · 1:02
Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss
Episode 19 · 1:19
Kitty: How to Treat Her
Episode 20 · 33s
Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself by W.B. Rands
Episode 21 · 41s
The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell
Episode 22 · 44s
The Cuckoo
Episode 23 · 34s
The Bird-Scarer's Song
Episode 24 · 28s
Cradle Song
Episode 25 · 41s
Good-Night! by A. and J. Taylor
Episode 26 · 56s
Daffodils by W. Shakespeare
Episode 27 · 28s
To Daffodils by R. Herrick
Episode 28 · 1:10
Daffodils by W. Wordsworth
Episode 29 · 1:26
The Months by Sara Coleridge
Episode 30 · 1:19
The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt
Episode 31 · 3:01
The Four Sweet Months by R. Herrick
Episode 32 · 43s
Glad Day by W.G. Robertson
Episode 33 · 1:17
Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt
Episode 34 · 50s
The Merry Month of March by W. Wordsworth
Episode 35 · 1:11
What the Birds Say by S.T. Coleridge
Episode 36 · 53s
Spring's Procession by Sydney Dobell
Episode 37 · 1:48
The Call of the Woods by W. Shakespeare
Episode 38 · 1:03
A Prescription for a Spring Morning by John Davidson