The Art-literature Readers, Volume 1Each volume includes reading selections illustrated with famous paintings. |
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Art-Literature Readers baby birds baby rabbit Baby-land balloon balls go basket Beyschlag big meadow biographical sketches Birthday Morning Bow-wow bread and milk butterfly says buy a rabbit buy my cherries cheep cherries ripe CHERRY GIRL child Cloth Dolly duotype process Dutch children fast father flowers four little kittens four little scamps garden go to school going to rain grass haymakers hiding horses Julien Dupré kittens can run kittens run kittens say lamb little bird little boy says little brother chicken little butterfly little chicken says little dog little Dutch girl little friends live in Holland Look meadow Meow Meyer von Bremen Millet mother night nursery rhymes Pages picture on page play and play play Peek-a-boo PLAYING BALL Price 30 cents Primer reading reproductions ride ripe cherries Robert Louis Stevenson sailboat scamps can play sunshine Three little kittens toad trees wooden shoes
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Page 107 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star ; How I wonder what you are ! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When the glorious sun is set, When the grass with dew is wet, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Page 106 - In the heart of a seed, Buried deep, so deep! A dear little plant Lay fast asleep! "Wake!" said the sunshine, "And creep to the light!
Page 106 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle, and all.
Page 107 - AT THE SEA-SIDE WHEN I was down beside the sea, A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more.
Page 99 - ONCE I saw a little bird Come hop, hop, hop ; So I cried, little bird, Will you stop, stop, stop? And was going to the window To say, how do you do ? But he shook his little tail, And far away he flew.
Page 107 - Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where's the boy that 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.
Page 107 - What do they do in Baby-land? Dream and wake and play ; Laugh and crow, Shout and grow, Jolly times have they.
Page 106 - Down falls the pleasant rain, To water thirsty flowers; Then shines the sun again, To cheer this earth of ours. "If it were always rain, The flowers would be drowned ; If it were always sun, No flowers would be found.
Page 106 - KIND hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits; Love is the sweet sunshine That warms into life, For only in darkness Grow hatred and strife.
Page 70 - Willie boy, Where are you going? I will go with you If I may.