Welcome to my Nursery Rhyme section, maintained mainly because there aren't many sites on line that include illustrations with their rhymes, and it's difficult to get my two year old grandchild interested in sitting at the computer without pictures. I'm sure other grammies can relate! She won't sit down and stay interested in a book without trying to tear it up, but she'll sit for half an hour looking at stuff on the internet; I guess she's definitely a modern girl.

I'll keep adding more pages to this section as time allows. The rhymes I remember from my own youth, but the illustrations take time to find, scan and edit. I want to include several illustrators as my husband and I collect children's books, primarily for the quality and variation in artistry.

Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall. And all the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.	There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. He caught a crooked cat, who caught a crooked mouse, and they all lived together in a crooked little house.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. And so between the two of them, They licked the platter clean!	Yankee Doodle went to town a-riding on a pony. He stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, that sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away.	Tom, Tom, the piper's son stole a pig and away he run. The pig was eat and Tom was beat, and he ran howling down the street.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the candlestick.	Dr. Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. He stepped in a puddle up to his middle, and never went there again.

The delightful graphics on this page are from a book called Treasure of Literature for Children published by Kingfisher Books and illustrated by Hilda Offen. The stories and poems are retold by Linda Yeatman; I didn't use her exact wording since they weren't quite how I remembered them. If you have other suggestions or preferences, drop me a line at RaggBagg and we'll discuss other versions.

Note on illustrations: these are not exact reproductions; I've had to scale down and in some cases change or delete part of the graphic due to space constraints. If you want to view the original art, I suggest that you buy (or look up at the library) the book. Most of the artists featured here sell paintings, posters, lithographs, and collector plates. We have a few plates by Scott Gustafson - not sure if they're still available but I found some of his lithographs on sale at the Framery of Fine Art and the Repartee Gallery.

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