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Over the hills and far away, a treasury of nursery rhymes, collected by Elizabeth Hammill ; illustrated by more than 70 celebrated artists

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Over the hills and far away

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collected by Elizabeth Hammill ; illustrated by more than 70 celebrated artists

a treasury of nursery rhymes

A collection of 150 nursery rhymes from across the globe, illustrated by 77 world-renowned artists. Includes well-known rhymes like Jack and Jill, Little Miss Muffet, and Three Blind Mice, as well as some you may never have seen before like Earkin-Hearkin, Through the Jungle the Elephant Goes, and White Feathers at the Edge of the World

How shall I begin my song (Tohono O'odham) / Michael Chiago -- African lullaby (Akan) / Meshack Asare -- Dance, little baby (English) -- Dance to your daddy (English) / Brita Granstrom -- Hush, little baby, don't say a word (American) / Don Cadoret -- Hush-a-bye, baby (English) -- Chippewa Lullaby (Chippewa) / Olivia Lomenech Gill -- Laughing Song (Tsimshian) / Bill Helin -- Baby and I (English) -- Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake (English) / Yasmeen Ismail -- You thumb there, wake up! (Inuit) / Andrew Qappik -- Brow bender (English) -- Earkin-Hearkin (Yiddish) -- Knock at the door (Chinese American) / Caroline Binch -- Moses supposes (English) -- Roses are red (English) / Bob Graham -- What are little boys made of? (English) -- We keep a dog to watch the house (Chinese American) / Ed Young -- Monday's child (English) / Niki Daly -- A wee little boy (Chinese American) -- Polly put the kettle on (English) / Rebecca Cobb --Diddle, diddle dumpling (English) -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary (English) -- Here am I, Little Jumping Joan (English) -- Janey Mac (Irish) / Niamh Sharkey -- Little Miss Muffet (English) / Clara Vulliamy -- Lickle Miss Julie (Jamaican) / Jenny Bent -- Little Miss Tuckett (American) / Amy Schwartz -- Little Miss Muffet (Australian) / Bruce Whatley -- There was a little girl (English) -- Georgie Porgie (English) / Emma Chichester Clark -- Miss Lucy had a baby (American) / Mo Willems -- Little Bo-peep (English) -- Little Boy Blue (English) / Lydia Monks -- Jack and Jill (English) / Helen Craig -- A was an apple pie (English) / Emily Gravett -- 1, 2, buckle my shoe (English) / Ted Dewan -- One, two, three, four, five (English) -- There once was a fish (American) / Thomas Docherty -- Boys and girls, come out to play (English) -- Ring-a-ring o' roses (English) / Sarah Garland -- Abna Babna (Caribbean) -- Eena, deena, dina, do (South African) --Entry, kentry, cutry, corn (Anglo-American) -- Inty minty tibblety fig (American) / Pippa Curnick -- Little Sally Water (African American/Caribbean) / Ashley Bryan -- Mosquito one, Mosquito two (Trinidadian) / Petrina Wright -- I scream, you scream (American) -- Pease porridge hot (English) -- I eat my peas with honey (American) -- If all the world were paper (English) / Nina Crews -- An eagle marching on a line (Latino) -- Little Nancy Etticoat (English) -- A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose (English) -- It has eyes and a nose (Chinese American) -- In marble walls as white as milk (English) / Michael Foreman -- Betty Botter bought some butter (English) -- Peter Piper (English) / Joel Stewart -- Sing, sing (Anglo-American) -- Poussie at the fireside (Scottish) / Catherine Rayner -- Hannah Bantry (English) -- Jack Sprat (English) / Nick Sharratt -- Alas! Alas! For Miss Mackay! (English) -- When I was a little boy (English) / Mini Grey --Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater (English) -- I had a little husband (English) / Emily Sutton -- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (English) -- Jack be nimble (English) -- Jerry Hall (English) / Paul Hess -- Three blind mice (English) -- Hickory, dickory, dock (English) -- Six little mice sat down to spin (English) / Jessica Ahlberg -- Goosey, goosey, gander (English) -- Goosey Goosey Gander (Australian) -- It's raining, it's pouring (English) / Pamela Allen -- Old Mother Hubbard (English) / Marcia Williams -- Higglety, pigglety, pop! (English) -- To market, to market (English) -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son (English) / Kevin Waldron -- This little pig went to market (English) -- Dis lickle pig go a markit (Jamaican) / Sian Jenkins -- Mrs Mason (English) -- Gregory Griggs (English) / Sara Ogilvie -- Gay go up and gay go down (English) / John Lawrence -- The Queen of Hearts (English) -- Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? (English) / Jane Ray --Old King Cole (English) -- Hector Protector (English) / P.J. Lynch -- Sing a song of sixpence (English) -- I had a little nut tree (English) / Polly Dunbar -- The lion and the unicorn (English) / Robert Ingpen -- Yankee Doodle (American) -- Oh, the grand old Duke of York (English) / James Mayhew -- As I was going out one day (American) -- One fine day in the middle of the night (English) / Piet Grobler -- Simple Simon (English) -- As I was going to St Ives (English) / David Lucas -- Dickery, dickery, dare (English) -- Miss Mary Mack (African American/Caribbean) / Jayme McGowan -- There was a crooked man (English) -- Doctor Foster (English) / Axel Scheffler -- A sunshiny shower (English) -- Whether the weather be fine (Anglo-American) -- Rain, rain, go away (English) -- Red sky at night (English) -- Ladybird (Welsh) -- Rain before seven (English) / Alan Lee -- January brings the snow (English) / Catherine Hyde -- Snow, snow faster (Anglo-American) --The north wind doth blow (English) / Mark Hearld -- Christmas is a coming (English) -- Little Jack Horner (English) / Jon Klassen -- In spring I look gay (English) -- I whistle without lips (Latino) -- Lives in winter (English) / Charlotte Voake -- There was a young farmer of Leeds (English) -- Thistle-seed, thistle-seed (Chinese American) / Ian Beck -- Puss came dancing out of a barn (English) -- Tom, he was a piper's son (English) / Laurie Stansfield -- All the baby chicks (Latino) -- Baa, baa, black sheep (English) -- This little cow eats grass (Chinese American) / Pat Hutchins -- Rub-a-dub-dub (English) -- Three wise men of Gotham (English) -- There was, was, was (Latino) / Lucy Cousins -- O, the train pulled in the station (American) / Chris Raschka -- Who built the ark? (African American) / Jerry Pinkney -- Through the jungle the elephant goes (Punjabi) -- At early morn the spiders spin (American) -- Ladybird, ladybird (English) / Eric Carle --Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree (Australian) / Ann James -- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear (American) / Shaun Tan -- Algy saw a bear (American) / Gus Gordon -- There was an old woman tossed up in a basket (English) -- Grey goose and gander (English) / Nicola Bayley -- Hey! diddle, diddle (English) / Satoshi Kitamura -- W'en de big owl whoops (African American) -- Don't talk! Go to sleep! (African American) -- Three little ghostesses (English) / Daniel Minter -- White Feathers Along the Edge of the World (Tohono O'odham) -- Song of Red Fox (Wintu) / Allison Francisco -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star (English) -- Star light, star bright (English) / Shirley Hughes -- Wee Willie Winkie (Scottish) -- Come, let's to bed (English) -- Up the wooden hill (English) -- Go to bed first (English) / Kate Leiper -- Hush-a-bye (African American) -- You are weeping (Maori) / Holly Sterling -- Bed is too small for my tiredness (American) / Pamela Zagarenski

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