Children's Poetry Books

The Birthday Party - A Story for Little Folks

Oliver Optic

The Birthday Party:  A Story for Little Folks is a children's story written by Oliver Optic, a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Flora Lee's birth..

Max und Moritz

Wilhelm Busch

Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen is a collection of humorous poems and practical jokes written for children in German language by Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, a Germa..

Three Unpublished Poems

Louisa May Alcott

Three Unpublished Poems is a collection of 3 poems written during the juvenile days by Louisa May Alcot, an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men ..

Przyjaciel Dziatek

Karol Wachtl

Przyjaciel Dziatek is a Children's poem written about animals in Polish language by Karol Wachtl...

A Child-World

James Whitcomb Riley

A Child-World is a children's poetry collection written by James Whitcomb Riley, an American writer, poet who was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect humorous or sentimen..

The Great Panjandrum Himself

Samuel Foote

The Great Panjandrum Himself is one of sixteen picture books created by the illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The book was published in 1885 by Frederick Warne & Co. It was the last book illustrated..

Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes

Various Authors

 There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,  He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:  He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,  And they all li..

The Only True Mother Goose Melodies

Anonymous

The editor of the new edition of Mother Goose's Melodies knows much more about the curious history of the Boston edition than I do. And the reader will not need, even in these lines of mine, any light..