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When an invitation to a Halloween party arrives, a child gathers supplies to make a costume but cannot decide what to be.

Rhymes and rebuses show children making breakfast for their mother, complete with flowers and a tray.

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

In cumulative verses and rebuses a young boy and his mother have different views on how to pack a bag for a trip to Grandma's.

A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow.

In cumulative verses and rebuses a girl describes how she is dressing up in her mother's party things.

In cumulative verses using rebuses, a young boy describes all the things he will need since he is not feeling well--until he learns that school is closed because of a snow storm.

In cumulative verses using rebuses, a young boy describes his experiences as engineer on the train in his room.

A cumulative verse with rebuses in which a young boy has a wonderful day at the zoo, despite a series of mishaps with the animals.

Not until all his animals join voices is a farmer able to get out of bed in the morning.

Cumulative verses with rebuses describe all the tools that a young boy borrows from his mother's toolbox to make a birdhouse.

A girl imagines the general store she will own some day and all the things for sale in it, from bolts of calico to bunches of bananas.

Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects.

Peter's new pants don't have any pockets, so Uncle Nick lets Peter use his until Peter's mother solves the problem in a clever and colorful way.

Henny carries to her picky chickies a sacky in which she has pack pack packed snicky-snackies.

Old and new verses for a popular folk song about hunting and capturing an animal--and then letting him go.

Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too.

The story of the creation of the Panama Canal

Aunt Betty sends Charlie an old Transylvanian gypsy recipe for chocolate fudge cake which calls for cobwebs and dried Carpathian tree toad flakes.