The book is made up of poems compiled from the “Little Book of Western Verse,” the “Second Book of Verse,” and the files of the “Chicago Daily News,” the “Youth’s Companion,” and the “Ladies’ Home Journal” , including such favorites as The Sugar Plum Tree, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, and Little Boy Blue, by the Poet of Childhood, Eugene Field. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker
Chapters
1 Introduction (With Trumpet and Drum) 2 min 2 The Sugar-Plum Tree 2 min 3 Krinken 3 min 4 The Naughty Doll 2 min 5 Nightfall in Dordrecht 2 min 6 Intry-Mintry 3 min 7 Pittypat and Tippytoe 3 min 8 Balow, My Bonnie 2 min 9 The Hawthorne Children 3 min 10 Little Blue Pigeon 2 min 11 The Lyttel Boy 2 min 12 Teeny-Weeny 3 min 13 Nellie 2 min 14 Norse Lullaby 2 min 15 Grandma's Prayer 1 min 16 Some Time 2 min 17 The Fire-Hangbird's Nest 5 min 18 Buttercup, Poppy,Forget-Me-Not 2 min 19 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 2 min 20 Gold and Love for Dearie 2 min 21 The Peace of Christmas-Time 2 min 22 To a Little Brook 3 min 23 Croodlin' Doo 1 min 24 Little Mistress Sans-Merci 2 min 25 Long Ago 2 min 26 In the Firelight 2 min 27 Cobbler and Stork 4 min 28 Lollyby, Lolly, Lollyby 2 min 29 Lizzie and the Baby 2 min 30 At the Door 1 min 31 Hugo's "Child at Play" 1 min 32 Hi-Spy 1 min 33 Little Boy Blue 2 min 34 Father's Letter 5 min 35 Jewish Lullaby 2 min 36 Our Whippings 4 min 37 The Armenian Mother 2 min 38 Heigho, My Dearie 2 min 39 To a Usurper 2 min 40 The Bell-Flower Treet 3 min 41 Fairy and Child 2 min 42 The Grandsire 2 min 43 Hushaby, Sweet My Own 2 min 44 Child and Mother 2 min 45 Medieval Eventide Song 2 min 46 Armenian Lullaby 2 min 47 Christmas Treasures 2 min 48 Oh, Little Child 1 min 49 Ganderfeather's Gift 2 min 50 Bambino 2 min 51 Little Homer's Slate 2 min
