Kitten's Night Thoughts Oliver Hereford When Human Folk put out the light And think they've made it dark as night, A Pussy Cat sees...

Politely Diane Willson When Goldilocks went calling On the Little Baby Bear And spoiled his bowl of porridge And sat holes into his chair- I...

The Sweetstuff Wife Eleanor Farjeon The Sweetstuff Wife in the queer little shop Has four little windowpanes With bottles of bulls-eye and l...

  Chickadee Hilda Conkling (Written at the age of six) The chickadee in the apple tree Talks all the time very gently. He makes me sleepy. ...

Ladybugs shaped using either handprints or hand tracing. Cut out the hands,  add black spots, antenna, eyeballs and heads.     Down in the H...

Circus Eleanor Farjeon The brass band blares, The naphtha flares, The sawdust smells, Showmen ring bells, And oh! right into the circus-ring...

The Cricket Marjorie Barrows And when the rain had gone away And it was shining everywhere, I ran out on the walk to play And found a littl...

Song for a Little House Christopher Morley I'm glad our house is a little house, Not too tall nor too wide: I'm glad the hovering b...

 The Secret Cavern Margaret Widdemer Underneath the boardwalk, way, way back, There's a splendid cavern, big and black- If you want to g...

The Little Rose Tree Rachel Field Every rose on the little tree Is making a different face at me! Some look surprised when I pass by, And ot...

  The Family Dragon (With acknowledgments to Kenneth Grahame) Margaret Widdemer Last night there walked across our lawn a beast we didn'...

 Sea Shell Amy Lowell Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, O please! A song of ships, and sailor men, And parrots, and tropical trees, Of i...