The Nursery Rhyme Book

"TO read the old Nursery Rhymes brings back queer lost memories of a man's own childhood. One seems to see the loose floppy picture-books of long ago, with their boldly coloured pictures. The books were tattered and worn, and my first library consisted of a wooden box full of these volumes. And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in the closet where the box was, and how my gaolers found me, happy and impenitent, sitting on the box, with its contents all round me, reading." - Andrew Lang, Editor of the Original 19th Century Book This republication of an early collection of nursery rhymes contains many old favorites, and many others that have been nearly lost to memory. Children and adults alike will delight in these classic poems, songs, proverbs, riddles, games, and rhymes. Illustrated throughout with digital scans of the original woodcut illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. Nursery rhymes have been part of the English oral tradition since at least the 16th Century, and part of the English literary tradition at least since the mid-18th Century. Nearly every child in the English-speaking world learns nursery rhymes. This is a tradition that is worth preserving, and the republication of the contents of this book makes many nursery rhymes available to a new generation.