From Little Jack Horner to Little Miss Muffet, 40 popular Mother Goose personalities anxiously await your crayons, watercolors, inks and other drawing materials. Kate Greenaway has made all of the characters seem like childhood friends, and Nancy Perkins has made the illustrations even more easy to color. The rhymes, familiar and unfamiliar, are, of course, always a delight.

Hark! hark! the dogs bark,The beggars are coming to town;Some in rags and some in tags,And some in a silken gown.Some gave them white bread,And some gave them brown,And some gave them a good horse-whip,And sent them out of the town.Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie;He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, oh! what a good boy am I.

Illustrations from the work of Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Maxfield Parrish, Randolph Caldecott, Charles Robinson, Arthur Rackham, and C. Lovat Frazer.

Thirty full-page, ready-to-color illustrations depict nursery rhyme characters that have long been childhood favorites. Youngsters will meet Little Boy Blue, Humpty-Dumpty, Peter, the pumpkin eater, Mary and her little lamb, and a host of other familiar figures. Rhymes appear below each drawing.

Illustrations from the work of Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Maxfield Parrish, Randolph Caldecott, Charles Robinson, Arthur Rackham, and C. Lovat Frazer.

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