A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (page 1/3)

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Contents heading with children looking inside a chest

In this line drawing the artist Willy Pogany has drawn a big old chest or trunk, with a boy and a girl looking inside while a cat (with a bow tie) mews at the boy. The chest illustrates (in a visual pun) the word in the background, Contents: this images appeared over the table of contents of this [...] [more...] [$]

Queen Mab (version without the words)

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet This is a version of Queen Mab with the writing removed, so you can use more easily. [more...] [$]

Initial Letter S

A decorative drop-cap (initial letter) “S” from the poem “A Good Thankgiving Day.” A woman carries either a milking yoke or a hockey stick. [more...] [$]

Snow in Town

The title for this poem show a boy gathering a snowball, and some houses with roofs covered in snow, and an old-fashioned lamp-post. [more...] [$]

Initial Letter I

A decorative capital letter “I” with a child peeking out from behind the letter; it was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) at the start of a paragraph. [more...] [$]