New-Year’s Wishes.
Prattles For Our Boys and Girls.
Hurst & Co.: New York. 1912.
Winter Play!
Winter Sports
The children’s coats are downy white,
And ruddy winter berries bright
Are tam-o’-shanters warm and red
Upon each little golden head.
.
On sleds of holly leaves they coast,
Of silver skates they proudly boast
And snowball fights with tiny forts –
These are their jolly winter sports.
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A Year With the Fairies.
Written by Anna M. Scott.
Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.
P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.
Queer!
“Quixote Quicksight.”
Quixote Quicksight, quiz’d a queerish quidbox,
A queerish quidbox Quixote Quicksight quizzed;
If Quixote Quicksight quiz’d a queerish quidbox,
Where’s the queerish quidbox Quixote Quicksight quiz’d?
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Holiday Tarts!
The Queen of Hearts
She made some tarts.
A Book of Nursery Rhymes.
Arranged by Charles Welsh.
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood.
D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers: Boston, New York, Chicago. Ca 1901.
Santa And The Fairies!
St. Nicholas and His Aeroplane
When you have hung your stocking up and crawled into your bed,
St. Nicholas with his fairy crew is sailing overhead,
And on the roofs of children’s homes he pauses in his flight,
While down the chimney goes the crew with gifts for your delight.
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The Brownies made this aeroplane to carry dear St. Nick,
And now there’s time for every child because he goes so quick.
His reindeer, sleek and fat, stay home and munch their hay and corn,
Delighted that they trot no more from Christmas Eve till morn.
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A Year With the Fairies.
Written by Anna M. Scott.
Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.
P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.
Well Mother Goose?
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Jack Frost’s Artwork!
Jack Frost
Elfin pictures on the pane
Mean Jack Frost has come again;
Lace and ferns and vines and flowers,
Snow-capped peaks and fairy bowers.
.
Castles gleaming opalescent,
Rivers flowing iridescent;
Jewels set in filigree,
All in crystal fantasy.
.
A Year With the Fairies.
Written by Anna M. Scott.
Illustrations by M. T. (Penny) Ross.
P. F. Volland & Co.: Chicago, U.S.A. 1914.
Sweep The Cobwebs Off The Sky!
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Ninety times as high as the moon;
And where she was going, I couldn’t but ask her,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
“Old woman, old woman, old woman,” quoth I,
“Whither, O whither, O whither so high?”
“To sweep the cobwebs off the sky!”
“Shall I go with you? “Aye, by-and-by.”
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Land Of Topsy-Turvydom!
“WHAT WOULD YOU THINK?”
If you saw an elephant climb a tree
Or a snail in an eggshell go to sea,
Or a donkey drinking a cup of tea –
What would you think?
If you saw houses upside down,
A beggar wearing a golden crown,
If the stars were red and the clouds were brown –
What would you think?
If you saw pennies not round but square,
Or an oyster walking down the stair,
Or a lobster sitting in your arm-chair –
What would you think?
If I saw all these things, or some,
I’m sure I’d say that I had come
To the land of Topsy-turvydom –
What would you think?
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Mary’s Little Lamb.
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1906.
Very Fresh Fish!
MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES.
While the sun shines make your hay,
That is what the wise folk say;
Even better, I opine,
While the fish is fresh to dine.
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Little Bo-Peep And Other Good Stories.
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1905.
Eat Nothing At All!
“There Was An Old Woman.”
There was an old woman
Called Nothing-at-all,
Who rejoiced in a dwelling
Exceedingly small:
A man stretched his mouth
To its utmost extent,
And down at one gulp
House and old woman went.
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Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Why Put A Calf On The Wall?
There was an old man,
And he had a calf,
And that’s half;
He took him out of the stall,
And put him on the wall,
And that’s all.
Mother Goose – Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Beautiful Pig!
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety, jig.
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.
Mother Goose
Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Mother Goose Flew To The Moon!
“Old Mother Goose.”
And then the gold egg was thrown into the sea,
When Jack he jumped in, and got it back presently.
The knave got the goose, which he vowed he would kill,
Resolving at once his pockets to fill.
Jack’s mother came in, and caught the goose soon,
And mounting its back, flew up to the moon.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Father’s Gone A-Hunting!
Baby Bunting
Bye, Baby bunting,
Father’s gone a-hunting,
Mother’s gone a-milking,
Sister’s gone a-silking,
And Brother’s gone to buy a skin
To wrap the Baby bunting in.
Mother Goose
Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Daddy’s Baby Bunting!
“Bye, Baby Bunting.”
Bye, baby, bunting,
Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
To get a little rabbit skin,
To wrap his baby bunting in.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
The Little Pig Rock’d The Cradle!
“The Sow With The Saddle.”
The sow came in with the saddle,
The little pig rock’d the cradle,
The dish jump’d up on the table,
To see the pot swallow the ladle.
The spit that stood behind the door
Threw the pudding-stick on the floor.
Odsplut! Said the gridiron,
Can’t you agree?
I’m the constable,
Bring them to me.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Pat-a-Cake Mother!
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man!
So I do, master, as fast as I can:
Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T
Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.
A Book of Nursery Rhymes.
Arranged by Charles Welsh.
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood.
D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers: Boston, New York, Chicago. Ca 1901.
Ride Away on Your Mother’s Back! (version one)
Ride away, ride away,
Johnny shall ride,
And he shall have pussy-cat
Tied to one side;
And he shall have little dog
Tied to the other,
And Johnny shall ride
To see his grandmother.
Mother Goose Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Idle? Taken Away a Year and a Day!
ROSAMOND THE IDLE.
Miss Rosamond May was so idle, they say,
That her wise fairy godmother took her away
To regions of fairy-land, cloudy and gray;
And there she must stay for a year and a day,
Or still longer, I fear,
Till she does all things that she didn’t do here!
All the stints and the chores that she thought were such bores;
The running of errands to markets and stores,
The making of beds and the sweeping of floors,
The tending of doors and the lessons in scores –
Ah, the poor little Miss!
How long it will take for her to finish all this!
ROSAMOND THE IDLE by Hannah R. Hudson.
Prattles For Our Boys and Girls
Hurst & Co.: New York. 1912.
Little Tom Tinker’s Dog!
Bow, wow, wow!
Whose dog art thou?
Little Tom Tinker’s dog,
Bow, wow, wow!
Mother Goose – Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Lick The Platter Clean!
“Jack Sprat and his Wife.”
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so betwixt them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Big Pussy!
Pussy & Mice
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin,
Pussy came by, and she popped her head in;
“Shall I come in and cut your threads off?”
“Oh no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off.”
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
The Cat & The Fiddle!
“Give a hearty good welcome to the cat and the fiddle.”
Dot’s Picture Book.
Illustrations by: F. M. Barton, E. Heatly, N. Westrup & S. Carter.
Dean & Son, Ltd.: London. Ca 1908.
Jack and Jill
“Jack and Jill”
“Yes, here we are. Two tiny bears. The stony hill we scale,
To bring you water from the top within a wooden pail.”
But, crash! And Jack was on his head – water in the sky,
And when he found his Jill again, they sadly said, “Good-bye.”
Animal Antics.
By Louis Wain.
S. W. Partridge & Co: London. Ca 1900-1910.
Eat, Beat, Cry!
“Away He Run”
Tom, Tom, the piper’s son,
Stole a pig, and away he run;
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom ran crying down the street.
Mother Goose – Volland Popular Edition.
Edited by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
Published by P. F. Volland Company: New York, Chicago & Toronto. 1921.
Boy on a Chain is a Strange Monkey!
“A STRANGE MONKEY.”
What have we here?
How very queer!
A monkey can it be?
But such a monkey in my life
I ne’er before did see.
Oh, dear, dear, dear,
I sadly fear
That something has gone wrong;
‘Tis Charlie fastened to a chain
That’s stout, and strong, and long.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
And Other Good Stories
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1906.
A Liebster Award for Elephant’s Picture Book!
A Vibrant Liebster Award for Elephant’s Picture Book!
Thank you to http://iarxiv.com for nominating me for the Liebster Award. I am grateful to you for selecting me. I truly appreciate your encouragement! It is my pleasure everyday to see your beautiful drawings and keep up with the around-the-world adventures of Piggy and Puggy. Yours is a beautiful blog that never fails to make me smile and sometimes sigh. [To catch up on the fun go to http://iarxiv.com/the-porcines/ .]
The Liebster Award is given to new blogs with fewer than 200 followers. The 11 blogs I nominated (listed below) are fresh and unique. I guarantee when you take a look you will be intrigued by what you find.
I was pleased to be nominated for the Liebster Award and I am honored to be nominating other people. As part of accepting the award a nominee answers 11 questions. Mine is an 11-part answer to one important question:
“ELEPHANT, WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM READING FAIRY TALES?”
(1) Don’t go into the forest – any forest at any time – especially alone.
(2) Don’t go into the home (hovel, hut, castle, or burrow) of a stranger – especially the home of a crone, witch, hag (land or sea), giant, ogre, beast, elf, or fairy.
(3) Don’t get into coaches with strangers; you will not be taken home as you hope. Instead, you will be taken on a long ride to an undesirable destination (e.g., a land entirely underground, a weirdo’s castle in the sky, a land so far away you can’t find your way home, etc.).
(4) Your parents may do you wrong, but your stepparent will definitely do you a mischief.
(5) Avoid royalty, any character with a bad attitude, unrepentant murderers, and any character you notice right from the start “disturbs” you.
(6) If you begin to lose track of time, your sense of hearing or your vision becomes distorted, you are likely falling under a spell – leave the area immediately!
(7) Beware of anyone who is lonely – they will likely entrap you and keep you as their unhappy companion for all eternity.
(8) If an animal is talking to you using a human language you should probably move along. In addition, don’t follow any suggestions offered by talking animals. (Note: If you follow the advice in item (1) and don’t go into the forest you are less likely to meet talking animals – befriend them at you own risk).
(9) Via enchanted powers you may be made into a talking animal or beast. This is unpleasant, but if you wait until your future spouse cuts off your head, kisses your ugly self or accomplishes a task, you will probably get to be human again and marry a good looking although slightly dim witted prince or princess.
(10) The size of a character in a fairy tale is a good indication of how clever it is. Giants are usually angry and dangerous but easily outsmarted. Small characters (e.g., elves, fairies, gnomes, tiny humans, etc.) are smarter than you are. Avoid trying to outsmart a smooth talking little character. Avoid committing to any verbal agreement with the diminutive, and exit their sphere of influence as soon as possible.
(11) Be nice – because even if you become the victim in a fairy tale, nice people are the only ones who stand a chance of having a happy ending!
My 11 Wonderful Liebster Award Nominees!
All the blogs nominated are published by creative people; they are interesting and worth following. Take a look and see why I am so enthusiastic about my nominees. Congratulations to all of you!
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http://killkaties.wordpress.com/
http://andyreedturner.wordpress.com/
http://firstnightdesign.wordpress.com/
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http://claudiacruzart.wordpress.com/
I would like to nominate every blog I follow. Many of you have lots of fans and too many followers, or you have won the award already! But if you 
wanted to be nominated and I left you out it is only because I was limited.
Nominees need to answer 11 questions, nominate 11 blogs they want others to enjoy, and ask their nominees 11 questions. You should notify your nominees, show the award and maybe say something about yourself. That is all I know – check around for the more explicit rules if you need them.
Nominees – if you accept – follow the rules as well as you can. Have fun! As for the 11 questions from me, ask yourself 11 questions you would like to answer!
Once again, http://iarxiv.com thank you for nominating me. Thank you to everyone who follows my blog or who has taken time to comment or given me a like or a look!
My best to everyone,
Elephant
PS Claudia Cruz, I can’t figure out how to notify you!
Angry? She Cut Off Their Tails With A Carving Knife!
“THREE BLIND MICE.”
Three Blind Mice,
See how they run!
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife;
Did ever you hear such a thing in your life
As three blind mice?
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
Cry Baby!
“Cry, Baby, Cry.”
Cry, baby, cry,
Put your finger in your eye,
And tell your mother it wasn’t I.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes.
McLoughlin Brothers: New York. Ca 1900.
She whipped them all around, and sent them to bed.
“Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.”
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth, without any bread,
She whipped them all around, and sent them to bed.
“Once Bitten, Twice Shy” – Dogs and Mustard!
Mary Had a Little Lamb and Other Good Stories.
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1906.
A burnt dog dreads the mustard pot;
However you may try
To coax him, he will taste it not –
Once bitten is twice shy.
The Poor Dog Had None!
Walter Crane’s Picture Books
John Lane
The Bodley Head: London & New York. 1897.
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor Dog a bone;
But when she came there
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor Dog had none.
Jacko – Trespassers Will be Prosecuted
Animal Antics
Louis Wain
S. W. Partridge & Co: London. Ca 1906-1910.
When Jacko the monkey escaped from his show, the geese at the farm hissed loudly, “Now go away, Sir, at once!” Are you blind? Can’t you see that notice which says that ‘Trespassers will be Prosecuted?’ Well, then, YOU are trespassing here, and we’ll peck at your heels if your course you don’t steer for some other port, without further delay. Go away! We repeat – go away!! Go away” !!!!
Gruel is “The Best Cure” for a Cough!
Animal Antics. Louis Wain. Illustration by T. Crumwell Lawrence. S.W. Partridge & Co.: London. Ca 1906-1910
The weather’s so severe, that it’s affected me just here,”
Said Mr. Jimbo, pointing to his chest;
“But though my cough is cruel, I’ll cure it with some gruel,
For of all the cures I’m sure it is the best.”
Elephant's Picture Book 