The Random House book of poetry for children / selected and introduced by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Arnold Lobel.

Auguries of innocence
All thing bright and beautiful
I'm glad the sky is painted blue
The universe
Measurement
On the bridge
Flint
The wolf cry
The secret song
Last rites
Trees
The crocus
Dandelion
The ferns
Birch trees
The wind
Mountain wind Windy nights
Who has seen the wind?
Mountain brook
River winding
Water's edge
Mud
The muddy puddle
Sea shell
The sea
Until I saw the sea
The rain has silver sandals
Rain clouds
To walk in warm rain
Rhyme
The more it snows
First snow
When all the world is full of snow
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
the snowflake
Check
The moon's the north wind's cooky
The star
Night comes
Night
Silver
the night is a big black cat.

The months
Four seasons
January
Martin Luther King
Lincoln
Ground hog day
Beyond winter
Valentine
Ice
Washington
Smells
February twilight
Paper dragons
Maple feast
When
Daylight saving time
March
The March wind
Wearing of the green
Spring rain
Ode to spring
Easter
Spring is
On mother's day
Spring
Good-by my winter suit
A moment in summer
A rocket in my pocket
Maytime magic
Summer
Joyful
October
October
August
Harvest home
This is halloween
Lazy witch
Thanksgiving magic
12 October
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving day
Light the festive candles
The children's carol
Winter moon
I heard a bird song
Merry Christmas
From: A Christmas package
A visit from St. Nicholas.

The waltzer in the house
Mice
THe chipmunk's song
To a squirrel at Kyle-na-no
The rabbit
The hedgehog
The bat
The bat
the sloth
Camel
the camel's complaint
Buffalo dusk
The hippopotamus
Holding hands
Oliphaunt
The wolf
Beside the line of elephants
Four little foxes
Grandpa bear's lullaby
The lesser lynx
Polar bear
The lion
Lion
Leopard
Seal
The performing seal
The donkey
The wild, the free
The mandrill
Ode to the pig: His tail
The pig
The hairy dog
A pig is never blamed
The cow
Roger the dog
Lone dog
Sunning
Bliss
I've got a dog
His highness's dog
The cat of cats
A cat in despondency
The cats of Kilkenny
Country barnyard
Cats
Cat
Little things
Feather or fur
Cat's menu.

Hey, bug!
Hurt no living thing
Green stems
A bug sat in a silver flower
Crickets
Praying mantis
Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating
Wasps
The flea
Bug in a jug
The bug
Oh the toe-test!
When mosquitoes make a meal
Cockroaches
A dragonfly
Fireflies in the garden
Caterpillar
The tickle rhyme
Ladybug
the codfish
A wee little worm
The flattered flying fish
Long gone
The shark
Fishes' evening song
Sally and Manda
The lizard
The boa
Brontosaurus
Desert tortoise
The frog
The crocodile
Samuel
The tree frog
The hummingbird
The polliwog
Baby talk
The canary
Ducks' ditty
The duck
The blackbird
Sea gull
The sandpiper
Something told the wild geese
The hen
Night heron
The vulture
The sparrow hawk
The eagle.

Just for one day
The riveter
Gift with the wrappings off
City, city
Sing a song of subways
Things to do if you are a subway
Flowers are a silly bunch
Rudolph is tired of the city
That may morning
Umbilical
Sunrise
The people
The people upstairs
Zebra
Crowds
Concrete mixers
They've all gone south
Pigeons
Sing a song of people
Stickball
A sad song about Greenwich Village
Fog
Alley cat school
Open hydrant
April rain song
City lights
Rainy nights
City
Frightening
Where are you now?
Foghorns
The city dump
Cockpit in the clouds.

Hug o'war
Advice to small children
The joke
Changing
Somebody
I saw a little girl I hate
Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry
Love
I love you
Question
I hate Harry
Puzzle
John, Tom, and James
Double-barreled ding-dong-rat
Yip-yap rattletrap
Tag along
Ten kinds
There was a little girl
Two people
Read this with gestures
Table manners
Jack
Bubble gum
Did you?
Why run?
The story of Augustus who would not have any soup
Eat-it-all Elaine
Tired Tim
Wendy in winter
Tony Baloney
Fernando
Queenie
Jessica Jane
Follow the leader
Freddy
Girls can, too!
No girls allowed
Little Clotilda
We're racing, racing down the walk
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
Wrestling
Measles
Barbershop
Wiggly giggles
Since Hanna moved away
A lullaby
What in the world?

My name is ...
Me
My father owns the butcher shop
I am rose
Me
Every time I climb a tree
The rason I like chocolate
Mark's fingers
When I was lost
Kaziah
Just me
How to get there
A wolf
Dust of snow
Sulk
If no one ever marries me
Broom balancing
About feet
On the skateboard
I can fly
Basketball
Basketball star
Song
Growing up
The marrog
Everybody says
Stupid old myself
Don't tell me that talk too much!
Surprises
If we didn't have birthdays
History
I am Cherry Alive
I'm really not lazy
Winter clothes
I'm nobody! who are you?
Yawning
Rhinos purple, hippos green
One day when we went walking.

The wrong start
Mother's nerves
John
Walking
Mother doesn't want a dog
Amelia mixed the mustard
I wish I could meet the man that knows
Some things don't make any sense at all
The first tooth
Bringing up babies
Six weeks old
Help!
Lil' bro'
My brother
Leave me alone
The Myra song
Let others share
In the motel
Rules
The runaway
Soap
What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday
They're calling
Going up
Up in the pine
Homework
Homework
Hot line
I'm alone in the evening
the winning of the TV west
The middle of the night
Our house
Two people.

My mouth
This is just to say
Tomorrow's the fair
Turtle soup
Oodles of noodles
Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast
Egg thoughts
Pie problem
Meg's egg
Celery
Taste of purple
Chocolate
Patience
My little sister
Little bits of soft-boiled egg
Chocolate, chocolate
A thousand hairy savages
I eat my peas with honey
Accidentally
I raised a great hullabaloo
Twickham tweer
The worm
The pizza
Soliloquy of a tortoise ...
Mr. Pratt
Sneaky Bill.

Some people
People
Routine
Daddy fell into the pond
Smart
One misty, moisty morning
Thoughts on talkers
My brother Bert
Grandpapa
Growing old
Grandpa dropped his glasses
Manners
Uncle
Miss Norma Jean Pugh
Godmother
Too many Daves
The little boy and the old man
Tombstone
Air traveler
House. For sale
Jittery Jim
On a bad singer
Doctor Emmanuel
Hog-calling competition
Old Quin Queeribus
There was an old man with a beard
Jonathan Bing
Poor old lady
Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty
Solomon Grundy
Mr. Kartoffel
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker
The sugar lady
Lord Cray
Together
The opposite of two
Sir Smasham Uppe.

Jabberwocky
Toot! Toot!
Higglety, pigglety, pop!
One the ning nang nong
The common cormorant
McIntosh apple
The lobsters and the fiddler crab
The butterfly's ball
The contrary waiter
Whoops!
Way down south
The duel
The owl and the pussy-cat
The hare and the pig
The alligator
The lizard
The serpent
The shark
I had a little pig
The ants at the olympics
The animal fair
The purple cow
I asked my mother
Algy met a bear
The walrus
Adventures of Isabel
Alligator pie
Beela by the sea
You must never bath in an irish stew
Did you ever go fishing?
Sensitive, seldom and sad
Josephine
The folk who live in Backward town
Father William
Johnny Crack and Flossie Snail
The snail's dream
The twins
The new vestments
Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece
Don't worry if your job is small
Number nine, penwiper mews
Tender heartedness
Jimmy Jet and his TV set
A young lady of Lynn
Herbert Glerbett.

A fly and a flea in a flue
The cow
The tutor
Weather
Two witches
Antonio
Habits of the hippopotamus
The bluffalo
Moses
The puffin
Eletelephony
Mr. Bidery's spidery garden
Banananananananana
Clickbeetle
Sing me song of teapots and trumpets
The modern Hiawatha
Misnomer
To be or not to be
Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail
Have you ever seen?
Waiters
An atrocious pun
Wild flowers
J's the jumping jay-walker
Poetry
Lumps
A word
The yak
Feelings about words.

Some one
Ghosts
Something is there
The horseman
Hist Shist
What's that?
Green cnadles
The witch! The witch!
Song of the witches
Owl
Wanted
-a witch's cat
Eight witches
Witches' menu
Queen Neferititi
Colonel Fazackerley
Song of hte ogres
three ghostesses
The darkling elves
The elf and the dormouse
The bogeyman
The troll
The wendigo
Father and mother
The fairies
The great auk's ghost
The pumpkin
The seven ages of elf-hood
Unicorn
How to tell goblins from elves
The little man
Gumble
Slithergadee
The bogus-boo
Wrimples
Ms. Whatchamacallit Thingamajig
The spangled pandemonium
The creature in the classroom
Dinky
The plumpeppets
Could it have been a shadow?

Happy thought
Our washing machine
Introduction to songs of innocence
No holes marred
Steam shovel
The toaster
The tin frog
Driving to the beach
My nose
From: The red book
Arithmetic
What is pink?
What is orange?
To be answered in our next issue
The base stealer
What is red?
Who's in
The library
The knockout
foul shot
Yellow
A football game
Maps
If once you have slept on an island
Train song
Travel
Flight plan
To an aviator
Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket
From a railway carriage
The toad
This little pig built a spaceship
Dreams
Far trek
How strange it is
The paint box
Keep a poem in your pocket
To dark eyes dreaming.