Fiction · 1833
Little Songs
Short verses for very young children — on kittens and lambs and birds, on getting up in the morning, on being kind to animals and to each other, on the seasons, on going to bed — written to be said aloud by a child rather than read to one, in the plainest possible words and the simplest metres.
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen was a Boston Unitarian, an abolitionist and an editor of children's magazines, and among the first Americans to write for children without an explicit doctrinal lesson in every piece. Little Songs was published in 1833 and stayed in print for decades.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the songs complete.
Contents
- Preface — To the First American Edition
- Preface
- The New Moon
- Stop! Stop! Pretty Water
- My Little Doll Rose
- Walter and His Dog
- The Good Moolly Cow
- Nothing but Ba-a
- James and His Mother
- Song for a Company of Children
- The Dog and the Cat, the Duck and the Rat
- Trusty Learning Abc
- Do You Guess It Is I?
- Fiddlededee
- The Stars and the Babies
- Kitty in the Basket
- The Farm Yard
- Frolic in the Snow
- Swing Swong
- Work and Play
- Little Mary
- It Can’t Be So
- When Evening Is Come
- Ringely Ringely
- Charlie Boy
- The Baby’s Birthday
- The Poor Man
- Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
- The Little Boy’s May Day Song
- The Little Boy’s Good Night
- COCKS AND HENS.: (To imitate the call of the fowls.)
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