Books with title Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories

Children's rhymes, children's games, children's songs, children's stories : a book for bairns and big folkby Ford, Robert, 1846-1905Publication date 1904Topics Children's literature -- Scotland, Nursery rhymes, Children's songs -- Scotland, Games -- Scotland, Games with music, Singing games -- ScotlandPublisher Paisley : GardnerCollection newyorkpubliclibrary; iacl; americanaDigitizing sponsor MSNLanguage EnglishRhymes of the nursery -- Counting-out rhymes -- Children's rhyme-games -- Children's songs and ballads -- Children's humour and quaint sayings -- Schoolroom facts and fancies -- Children's storiesBookplateleaf 0005Camera Canon 5DExternal-identifier urn:oclc:record:1041792668Foldoutcount 0Identifier childrensrhymesc00fordIdentifier-ark ark:/13960/t1mg7jg8wOcr ABBYY FineReader 8.0

This book is an illustrated version of the original Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories by Robert Ford. The earlier pages are occupied with a commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery, the vitality and universal use of which have been at once the wonder and the puzzle of the ages. This is followed in turn by a chapter on Counting-out Rhymes, with numerous examples, home and foreign; which is succeeded, appropriately, by a section of the work embracing description of all the well-known out-door and in-door Rhyme-Games—in each case the Rhyme being given, the action being portrayed. The remaining contents the title may be left to suggest. I may only add that the Stories—including "Blue Beard," and "Jack the Giant Killer," and their fellow-narratives—ten in all—are printed verbatim from the old chapbooks once so common in the country, but now so rare as to be almost unobtainable.

In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, and Children's Stories, the multitudinous items of which at least, as were not living in my own memory, have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with much genuine delight, from wide and varied sources. I anticipate for the work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the first really sincere effort to collect in anything like ample and exclusive fashion the natural literature of the children of Scotland, and meets what has long appealed to me as decidedly a felt want. The earlier pages are occupied with a commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery, the vitality and universal use of which have been at once the wonder and the puzzle of the ages. This is followed in turn by a chapter on Counting-out Rhymes, with numerous examples, home and foreign; which is succeeded, appropriately, by a section of the work embracing description of all the well-known out-door and in-door Rhyme-Games. In each case the Rhyme being given and the action being portrayed. The remaining contents the title may be left to suggest. I may only add that the Stories, including Blue Beard and Jack the Giant Killer and their fellow-narratives—ten in all —are printed verbatim from the old chap- books once so common in the country but now so rare as to be almost unobtainable.

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In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, and Children's Stories—the multitudinous items of which, or such, at least, as were not living in my own memory, have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with much genuine delight, from wide and varied sources—I anticipate for the work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the first really sincere effort to collect in anything like ample and exclusive fashion the natural literature of the children of Scotland, and meets what has long appealed to me as decidedly a felt want. The earlier pages are occupied with a commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery, the vitality and universal use of which have been at once the wonder and the puzzle of the ages. This is followed in turn by a chapter on Counting-out Rhymes, with numerous examples, home and foreign; which is succeeded, appropriately, by a section of the work embracing description of all the well-known out-door and in-door Rhyme-Games—in each case the Rhyme being given, the action being portrayed. The remaining contents the title may be left to suggest. I may only add that the Stories—including "Blue Beard," and "Jack the Giant Killer," and their fellow-narratives—ten in all—are printed verbatim from the old chapbooks once so common in the country, but now so rare as to be almost unobtainable.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHILDREN'S STORIES. The editor of a London literary journal was recently inviting men and women in prominent positions in public life to name for publication the books of their childhood. So far as I observed, none of the halfhundred or more who responded gave Blue Beard, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, or any of the others in the same category that follow here. But I am none the less convinced that these old-time favourites, not yet unknown, though familiar to city children in the present generation mainly in their variegated and fantastic Christmas pantomime form, were in Scotland and England alike in the last century more essentially the books of childhood than any others known and read beyond the walls of the school-room. The travelling stationers and packmen carried them in their thousands, in chapbook form, into even the most remote parts of the country, where they were bartered for and explored with avidity. In many quarters, indeed, they were so familiar fifty years ago that the books on occasions could be dispensed with, and the elder members of families would recite the stories from memory for the delectation of the younger fry, when all foregathered in a crescent before the kitchen fire to wear out the long winter evenings. In this manner, under the dimflickering light of an "oilie cruizie," in a straggling village in Perthshire, did I learn first of Blue Beard and Jack the Giant Killer, and many another hero of chapbook literature. And my experience, I am sure, was by no means singular. Rather, I feel certain that while telling thus my own, I am expressing no less truly the experience of many thousands of men and women now beyond middle life who similarly were born and bred in any rural parish in Scotland. And, oh, the...

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Do you dread the prospect of a long car trip with your kids? Here’s a great book that will amuse and entertain children and make the trip easier and more pleasant. "If there is any more entertaining book for juveniles who 'want to know' than Mr. Robert Ford's Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories, we have not yet made its acquaintance. The title is descriptive, as few titles are, of the unusual range of the book, which, be it said, will probably be read with as much zest by 'big folk' as by bairns."—Glasgow Herald. "This man Ford has his heart in the right place. He loves the children, and a man who loves children is on the way to heaven. The volume is described on the title-page as 'A Book for Bairns and Big Folk,' and no better description of it could be invented, for, while it must be interesting to the young people, it cannot fail to touch chords, perhaps long forgotten, in men and women who have left their youth behind them."—Daily Record and Mail. "The volume is a perfect mine for those in search of stories about children. Parents will find within its pages much that will fascinate and amuse them."—Dundee Courier. "Taken as a finished work, it is well done. The most harassed man of middle-age will turn over the pages with delight and have dreams of half-forgotten yore."—Glasgow Evening Citizen. "A very interesting little book, carefully made—a good one for students of folk-lore as well as children."—Athenæum. "Altogether we have here a delightful book."—Evening Times. CONTENTS. Rhymes of the Nursery Counting-out Rhymes Children's Rhyme-Games "Merry-ma-Tanzie" "The Mulberry Bush" "A Dis, a Dis, a Green Grass" "Looby-Looby" "I Dree I Droppit it" "Bab at the Bowster" "The Wadds" "The Wadds and the Wears" "The Widow of Babylon" "London Bridge" "The Jolly Miller" "Willie Wastle" "Oats and Beans and Barley" "Hornie Holes" "The Craw" "Neevie-neevie-nick-nack" "Blind Man's Buff" "Water Wallflower" "The Emperor Napoleon" "A' the Birdies i' the Air" "Through the Needle-e'e, Boys" "King Henry""The Blue Bird" "When I was a Young Thing" "Carry my Lady to London" "A, B, C" "My Theerie and my Thorie" "Glasgow Ships" "Airlie's Green" "Het Rowes and Butter Cakes" "Queen Mary" "Whuppity Scoorie" "Hinkumbooby" "Three Brethren come from Spain" "Here Comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay" "Janet Jo" "The Goloshans” Children's Songs and Ballads Cock Robin The Marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren The North Wind Little Bo-Peep The House that Jack Built Simple Simon Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Goose The Old Woman and her Pig A Frog he would a-wooing go The Carrion Crow My Pretty Maid Can ye Sew Cushions? Hush-a-ba Birdie, Croon Dance to your Daddie Katie Beardie The Miller's Dochter Hap and Row How Dan, Dilly Dow Crowdie Whistle, whistle, Auld Wife The Three Little Pigs Cowe the Nettle early The Wren's Nest Robin Redbreast's Testament Children's Humour and Quaint Sayings Schoolroom Facts and Fancies Children's Stories Blue Beard Jack and the Bean-Stalk The Babes in the Wood Jack the Giant Killer Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper Puss in Boots Whittington and his Cat Beauty and the Beast The Sleeping Beauty

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