Paper mini book by Harvey Peake, restored by kathy grimm. Front Cover |
This adorable mini book is by Harvey Peake. It comes with rhymes and illustrations of automobiles only found in the imagination of a child. Assemble it as a mini book or cut the patterns out and pin them into a boarder in your classroom. Either way, little ones are sure to enjoy coloring them in and learning their nursery rhymes.
A frog he would a-wooing go In a very stylish way, So he bought a frogmobile, you know, And the lady frog said "Yea!" |
Jack be nimble! Jack be quick! Jack, jump over the candlestick! Jack jumped when something struck his wheel, For his candlestick was an automo- bile! |
The Man in the Moon, Come down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich. In his crescent machine, Made of cheese so green, He drove off after his porridge. |
Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep, And didn't know where to find them; But she turned them all to automobiles, And now she rides behind them. |
"Will you come into my auto?" Said the spider to the fly. "There is room in my Web-tonneau And I'll join you by and by." |
There was an old woman Who lived in a shoe, She had so many children She didn't know what to do. But she mounted the shoe On a big motor car, And now there is room For them all without jar. |
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her; He made a car of the pumpkin shess, And there he kept her very well. |
There was an old woman lived under a hill On auto'bile wheels that wouldn't stand still. So she drove around selling her cranberry pies,- And she's the old woman who never told lies. |
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?'' "Oh, now that I have a car," she said, "It grows twice as fast, you know." |