The pasture / Robert Frost --
Animals. Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field --
Caterpillars / Aileen L. Fisher --
The wolf / Georgia Roberts Durston --
A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson --
Baby chick / Aileen L. Fisher --
A kitten / Eleanor Farjeon --
Foxes / Mary Ann Hoberman --
The woodpecker / Elizabeth Maddox [sic] Roberts --
World of nature. Weather / Anonymous --
Clouds / Christina G. Rossetti --
Who has seen the wind? / Christina G. Rossetti --
The muddy puddle / Dennis Lee --
Spring rain / Marchette Chute --
The rainbow / Christina G. Rossetti --
What is pink? / Christina G. Rossetti --
Open house / Aileen L. Fisher --
The little rose tree / Rachel Field --
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Metaphor / Eve Merriam --
Sleeping outdoors / Marchette Chute --
The star / Jane Taylor --
Until we built a cabin / Aileen L. Fisher --
Wise / Aileen L. Fisher --
Taking turns / Norma Farber --
To look at any thing / John Moffitt --
Hurt no living thing / Christina G. Rossetti --
Around the year. The months / Anonymous --
New Year's Day / Rachel Field --
To my Valentine / Anonymous --
March winds and April showers / Mother Goose --
April rain song / Langston Hughes --
Green grass & dandelions / Margaret Wise Brown --
Autumn / Emily Dickinson --
October / Robert Frost --
The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost --
Thanksgiving Day / L. Maria Child --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --
Happy Hanukkah! / Eva Grant --
Christmas song / Margaret Wise Brown --
People and places. City song / Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson --
Skyscraper / Dennis Lee --
Subways are people / Lee Bennett Hopkins --
Climbing / Aileen L. Fisher --
In the woods / Margaret Wise Brown --
Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni --
Child of the sun / Lillian M. Fisher --
Postman's song / Margaret Wise Brown --
The park / James S. Tippett --
So many nights / Margaret Wise Brown --
Manhattan lullaby / Rachel Field --
Once upon a time / Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson --
School time. First day of school / Aileen L. Fisher --
Pick me, please / Kalli Dakos --
SOS / Beverly McLoughland --
Take a number / Mary O'Neill --
I brought a worm / Kalli Dakos --
Ten little caterpillars / Bill Martin Jr --
Word builder / Ann Whitford Paul --
Under the microscope / Lee Bennett Hopkins --
Poor substitute / Kalli Dakos --
Me and my feelings. The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson --
I've got an itch / Jack Prelutsky --
Papa says / Libby Stopple --
This tooth / Lee Bennett Hopkins --
Bursting / Dorothy Aldis --
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson --
I am running in a circle / Jack Prelutsky --
My dog / Marchette Chute --
Vacation / Mary Ann Hoberman --
Kick a little stone / Dorothy Aldis --
I keep three wishes ready / Annette Wynne --
The dark / Myra Cohn Livingston --
Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson --
If I were in charge of the world / Judith Viorst --
Painting the gate / May Swenson --
My star / Myra Cohn Livingston --
Dreamer / Langston Hughes --
Family and home. Grandpa's stories / Langston Hughes --
in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade --
Promises / David A. Anderson --
A social mixer / X. J. Kennedy --
My little sister / William Wise --
Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst --
I love you little / Anonymous --
Food for me. On eating porridge made of peas / Louis Phillips --
I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous --
Speak clearly / Martin Gardner --
Let there be pizza on Earth / David Canzoneri and Bill Martin Jr --
Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi --
Oodles of noodles / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. --
Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky --
O sliver of liver / Myra Cohn Livingston --
Beans, beans, beans / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. --
Nonsense. Norman Norton's nostrils / Colin West --
Kitty caught a caterpillar / Jack Prelutsky --
Snail's pace / Aileen L. Fisher --
Dickery Dean / Dennis Lee --
Crooked man / Mother Goose --
A mouse in her room / Anonymous --
Tombstone / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. --
Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird --
The folk who live in Backward Town / Mary Ann Hoberman --
Mother Goose. Old Mother Hubbard / adapted by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson --
Knock on the door / Mother Goose --
Wee Willie Winkie / Mother Goose --
Hey diddle, diddle / Mother Goose --
Jack be nimble / Mother Goose --
King Cole / Mother Goose --
Star light / Mother Goose --
Little Bo-Peep / Mother Goose --
Little Boy Blue / Mother Goose --
Black sheep / Mother Goose --
Song of sixpence / Mother Goose --
My brother was a fisherman / Mother Goose --
Hickory, dickory, dock / Mother Goose --
The tuft of flowers / Robert Frost --
Afterword / Steven Kellogg.