Stories and poems from the classics.

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The rhymes English-speaking children learn before they can read, and the most quoted lines in the language after Shakespeare. Eight of them — Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Hickory Dickory Dock — four to eight lines each, heavily rhymed, which is what makes them easy to hold on to.

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Seven poems from A Child's Garden of Verses, the 1885 collection Stevenson wrote entirely from a child's point of view — a swing going over the garden wall, rain on a roof, a shadow that will not behave. Short, plain-worded, and regularly metred.












