> by Rhoda W. Bacmeister > > Susie's galoshes > > Make splishes and sploshes And slooshes and sloshes, As Susie steps > slowly Along in the slush. > > The slippery slush > > As it slooshes and...
Vern
by Gwendolyn Brooks When walking in a tiny rain Across the vacant lot, A pup's a good companion--- If a pup you've got. And when you've had a scold, And no one loves you very, And you cannot be...
Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst Mother doesn't want a dog. Mother says they smell, And never sit when you say sit, Or even when you yell. And when you come home late at night And there is ice and snow, You...
A Riddle! A Riddle!
1\. Riddle me, riddle me, what is that, Over the head and under the hat? > It's just like a cup; It's yellow, as yellow as butter, And they call it 3. A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose, a hundred...
The Riddles
> from Morris and Boris by Bernard Wiseman Boris the Bear met Morris the Moose. "Do you like riddles?" Boris asked. Morris asked, "How do they taste?" Boris said, "You do not eat riddles." Morris...
The End
by A. A. Milne When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly Me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. ...
Miss Norma Jean Pugh, First Grade Teacher by Mary O’Neill
Full of oatmeal And gluggy with milk On a morning in springtime Soft as silk When legs feel slow And bumblebees buzz And your nose tickles from Dandelion fuzz And you long to Break a few Cobwebs...
How to Tell a Tiger
by John Ciardi People who know tigers Very very well All agree that tigers Are not hard to tell. The way to tell a tiger is With lots of room to spare. Don't try telling them up close Or we may...
Guess
by John Ciardi ONE is a creeper and sleepy in his shell. TWO is a hopper and he hops very well. THREE is a flopper and his flippers flap. FOUR is a jumper with a jump-in lap. FIVE is a drinker with...
The Case of the Cat’s Meow
> by Crosby Bonsall illustrations by Crosby Bonsall Snitch was yelling. He was pulling a wagon with a funny thing in it. And he was yelling. "Stop yelling," yelled his brother, Wizard. "Stop...
