Arcadia Public Library

A collection of humorous poems involving word play and absurd animals and people.

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a feisty woman tries roller skates, a bicycle, and even a rocket to reach a star.

A walrus and a carpenter encounter some oysters during their walk on the beach--an unfortunate meeting for the oysters.

An illustrated collection of twenty poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet and novelist, Edward Lear, with commentary and definitions of unfamiliar words. Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

This volume presents a fun version of the classic jump rope rhyme. Tiny Tim drinks the bathwater and eats the soap...compelling his panicked mother to call the doctor, nurse, and lady with the alligator purse. Guess which one figures out how to cure him (and not with medicine)?

An expanded adaptation of the familiar hand-clapping rhyme about a young girl and an elephant.

You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a bell, some bows, some gifts, a sack, a sleigh, and some reindeer!

Retells the cumulative tale in which an old lady pays the supreme penalty for her peculiar eating habits.