Introduction / Gregory A. Falls --
Sing a song of seasons / Alice Ellison --
At the seaside / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Merry-Go-Round / Geraldine Brain Siks --
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Marching song / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Galoshes / Rhoda Bacmeister --
Mud / Polly Chase Boyden --
Picnicking / Phyllis Lee Baird --
The swing ; Happy thought ; My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson --
If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Field --
Skating / Herbert Asquith --
An old christmas greeting --
For Hanukkah / H.N. Bialik --
The wind / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Trains ; Up in the air / James S. Tippett --
The little plant / Kate Louise Brown --
Baby seed song / Evelyn Nesbit --
Eskimo land ; Mexico / Vivian Mackey --
Fish / William Jay Smith --
A valentine / Eleanor Hammond --
Jack Frost ; Halloween / Geraldine Brain Silks --
A fairy / William Shakespeare --
Psalm 150 ; Lines from "The Song of Solomon" / The Holy Bible --
The year's at the spring / Robert Browning --
Morning / Emily Dickinson --
Circus / Eleanor Farjeon --
The mysterious cat / Vachel Lindsay --
Dance of death / Henri Cazalis --
Thanksgiving day / Lydia Maria Child --
from "Snowbound" / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The bagpipe man / Nancy Byrd Turner --
Meg Merrilies / John Keats --
The North wind doth blow --
Tom, Tom, the piper's son --
I had a little nut tree --
Little robin redbreast --
Boats in Fog / Vivian Mackey --
Crab-apple / Ethel Talbot --
Come little leaves / George Cooper --
Hunting for a halloween cat / Vivian Mackey --
Women in moss / Geraldine Brain Siks --
Frogs at school / George Cooper --
Lines from "the new colossus" / Emma Lazarus --
The country mouse and the town house / Horace --
The grasshopper and the ant ; The turtle and the rabbit / La Fontaine --
The new duckling / Alfred Noyes --
Lines from "Hiawatha's Childhood" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred Tennyson --
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier --
I saw three witches / Walter de la Mare --
The pirate Don Durk of Dowdee / Mildred Plew Merryman --
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore --
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer --
The creation / James Weldon Johnson --
The little flower who never got a bloom / Brian R. Hubbard --
Cats for free / Peter Hirschman --
Home for a bunny / Margaret Wise Brown --
Home on Sunday / Geraldine Brain Siks --
The peddler and the monkeys --
The lion and the mouse --
Teeny-tiny / James Orchard Halliwell --
Little mouse and Mr. Scare Crow / Ann Kimball --
A first Thanksgiving ; Where is Christmas? ; The story of Christmas ; Claire and the nutcracker / Geraldine Brain Siks --
Fraidy-cat and the wise one / Lillian M. Bushnell --
The gingerbread boy ; Raggylug / Geraldine Brain Siks --
The little rabbit who wanted red wings / Carolyn S. Bailey --
The big spider ; The big turnip / Geraldine Brain Siks --
Henny-Penny / Joseph Jacobs --
A place of peace: an impression from my childhood in Norway / Ingrid Bowman --
How the potato face blind man enjoyed himself on a fine spring morning / Carl Sandburg --
Adventure in the orchard / Isabel B. Burger --
Injun summer / John T. McCutcheon --
Why the chimes rang / Raymond Macdonald Alden --
Wahoo / Joel Chandler Harris --
Snow maiden ; The frog prince ; Boots and his brothers ; The horned women ; Snow-white and rose-red ; Molly Whuppie ; Urashima Taro ; Rapunzel ; Dunis and the thankful frog ; The ugly duckling ; Drakestail ; An ark in the wilderness ; David, the shepherd boy ; David and the Giant of Gath ; Joseph the dreamer ; Twenty pieces of silver ; Prometheus ; Pandora ; Demeter and Persephone ; The death of Balder / adapted by Geraldine Brain Siks --
The knights of the silver shield / Raymond Macdonald Alden --
Where love is, God is / adapted by Hazel Brain Dunnington from a tale by Leo Tolstoy --
King of the Golden River / adapted by Hazel Brain Dunnington from a story by John Ruskin --
Jo meets Apollyn from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott --
Merry adventures of Robin Hood / Howard Pyle --
Tragedy in the graveyard from "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" ; The solemn oath from "The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Samuel L. Clemens.