The Oxford Nursery Rhyme BookThe Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones. Special sections are devoted to lullabies and dandling rhymes, toe rhymes, catches, charms, traditional street cries, riddle verses, nursery maxims, and humorous ballads. The text is further enlivened by 600 illustrations, many of them eighteenth- and nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings. |
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... Old Mother Hubbard ' if the rest of the verses are left unillustrated . However ready a small child may be to like the complete story of ' Old Mother Hubbard ' ( we put it among the first in the lap - reading stage ) , he cannot go on ...
... Old Mother Hubbard ' if the rest of the verses are left unillustrated . However ready a small child may be to like the complete story of ' Old Mother Hubbard ' ( we put it among the first in the lap - reading stage ) , he cannot go on ...
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Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie. THE COMIC ADVENTURES OF Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard , To fetch her poor dog a bone ; But when she got there The cupboard was bare And so the poor dog had none ...
Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie. THE COMIC ADVENTURES OF Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard , To fetch her poor dog a bone ; But when she got there The cupboard was bare And so the poor dog had none ...
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... Old Mother Hubbard , 28-30 . Old Mother Niddity Nod , 94 . Old Mother Shuttle , 81 . Old Mother Slipper Slopper jumped out of bed , see 190 . Old Mother Twitchett has but one eye , 147 . Old Sir Simon the king , 138 . Old woman , old woman ...
... Old Mother Hubbard , 28-30 . Old Mother Niddity Nod , 94 . Old Mother Shuttle , 81 . Old Mother Slipper Slopper jumped out of bed , see 190 . Old Mother Twitchett has but one eye , 147 . Old Sir Simon the king , 138 . Old woman , old woman ...
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