2nd page of nursery rhymes... I learned these as a child, so these are what I'm passing on from my own experience. If you have some rhymes from other cultures you'd like to have posted, e-mail me at RaggBagg's Realm with the text and any accompanying graphics or links to graphics that you have. Or, if you have a section on children's stories, I'd love to exchange links.
To market, to market to buy a fat pig
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
To market, to market to buy a fat hog
Home again, home again, joggety jog.
Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the queen.
Pussycat, pussycat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
Pat a cake, pat a cake, baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it
and mark it with a T
Then bake it in the oven
for Tommy and me.
Baa Baa black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for my master and one for my dame
And one for the little boy
who lives down the lane.
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep are in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where's the little boy
who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack, fast asleep.
Will you wake him? "No, not I;
For if I do, he'll be sure to cry."
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
and can't tell where to find them.
Leave them alone
and they'll come home,
Dragging their tails behind them.
The illustrations on this page are from The Classic Mother Goose, edited by Armand Eisen. Several of the poems in the book have additional verses. I only included the original poems as I knew them, but you may want to acquire the book and learn the expanded versions. The PussyCat poem illustration is by Richard Walz; the Baa Baa Black Sheep and To Market to Market are by Arlene Klemushin. Pat a Cake is by Nancy Lee Wiley, and the last two graphics are actually one picture done by Robyn Officer. I had to separate it into two parts to attach to the proper rhyme.
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This site was created on December 16, 2001. It was last updated on February 17, 2003.
Note on illustrations: these are not exact reproductions; I've had to scale down and in some cases 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. Some of the artists that are and will be featured sell posters, pictures, collector plates and so forth. The Franklin Mint may feature some of their art, and so may the Bradford Exchange (we have plates from a couple of them). You may also be able to look up authors and illustrators by name on the web to see if there is anything there to purchase or view in more detail.
