Kids Christmas Book 09

8/14/2019 Kids Christmas Book 09

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WHAT DID YOU DO LAST SUMMER?

WE WENT TOCOUSINS CAMP!

2009


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TO FIONA,

CHALLIE

AND CALLUM

Love fromGammy and PaPa


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Frisky as a lambkin,Busy as a bee -

Thats the kind of little girl People like to see.

Happy as a robin,Dearest as a dove

Thats the kind of little boyEveryone does love.

{Apologies to Anne Emilie Poulsonn}


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Across the places deep and dim,And places brown and bare,It reaches to the gardens rim The Road to Anywhere!

Now east is east and west is westBut north lies in between,

And they are blest whose feet have pressedThe road thats cool and green.

The road of roads for them who dareThe lightest whim obey.To follow where the dear or bearHas brushed his headlong way.

The secrets that these tangles houseAre step by step revealed,While, to the young, the paths and roads

A store of adventures yield.{Apologies to Bert Leston Taylor}


6/25

How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it is the pleasantest thingEver a child can do.

Up in the air and over them all,

Til I can see so wide,Houses and kids and cars and all

Over the countryside -

Til I look down on the park such fun,Down on my cousins so specially dear

Up in the air I go flying again,Happily, happily, with nary a fear!

{Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson}


7/25

Jump jump - jumpJump away

From this spot intoThe next, today.

Jump jump jump

Jump over the moon;Jump all the morning

And all the noonJump jump jump

Let it be;What wonderful wonders

We shall see.{Apologies to Kate Greenaway}


8/25

She digs in her gardenWith a shovel and a spoon,

She weeds her lovely lettuceBy the light of the moon.

{Apologies to Edna St. Vincent Millay}


9/25

Far down in the meadow the lettuce grows green,And the reapers are whetting their fingers so keen;And this is the song that I hear them sing,While cheery and loud their voices ring:

Its the finest lettuce that did ever grow,Lets take it to the Food Bank, ho, ho, ho!{Apologies to Laura Richards}


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The boy wears a grin,Some dirt on his chin,Holds his hand out,Never a doubt.

The pup, with a sniff and a bark,Is ready to go off on a lark.He waves to his friendWith his wigglesome end!

{Apologies to Arthur Guiterman}


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Little senorita,With a sun-warmed face,

In the dusty meadow,

Run at a rapid pace.

Bringing balloons of water,Colors all around,

Held in careful little handsDont spill them on the ground!{Apologies to Charles Devine}


12/25

Arent big people funnyThat they cant wait to play?

And some of them throw water balloons,I like them that way!

{Apologies to Witter Bynner}


13/25

Ring-a-ring of a cousin boy,Ring-a-ring of girls;

All around all around,They twists and twirls.

You are merry children.Yes, we are.

Where do you come from?Not very far.Apologies to Kate Greenaway}


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Gold locks, and black locks,Red locks and brown,

Straight above the clear eyes,

Rounded round the ears,Snip-snap and snick-a-snick

Clash the Barbaras shears.{Apologies to Walter de la Mare}


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When they said the time to hide was mine,I hid back under a thick grapevine.

And while I was still for the time to pass,A little gray thing came out of the grass.

He hopped his way through the melon bedAnd sat down by a cabbage head.

He sat down close where I could see,And his big still eyes looked hard at me.

His big eyes bursting out of the rim,And I looked back very hard at him.

{Apologies to Elizabeth Madox Roberts}


16/25

The oak is called the king of trees,The aspen quivers in the breeze,The poplar grows up straight and tall.The pear tree spreads along the wall,The sycamore gives pleasant shade,The willow droops in watery glade,The fir tree useful timber gives,The beech among the forest lives.

See their leaves, find them one by one,Learn their names, and make it fun.Each tree has special gifts to give,Plant a seed and help more to live!

{Apologies to Sara Coleridge}


17/25

Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,Thats the finest of suppers, I think.When Im grown up and can have what I pleaseI think I shall always insist on these.

What do you choose when offered a treat?When Gammy says, What would you like best to eat?Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?No, its pizza and ice cream we love the most!

{Apologies to Christopher Morley}


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When all the days are hot and longAnd robin bird has ceased his song,

We like to swim every dayAnd have the finest kind of play.

Weve learned to dive and we can floatAs easily as does a boat;

We splash and wade and laugh and shoutTil PaPa tells us to come out.

{Apologies to Clinton Scollard}


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If we could see a little fish That is what we just now wish!We want to see his great round eyes

Always open in surprise.

We think well get some stones to throw,And watch the pretty circles show.Or shall we sail a flower boat,

And watch it slowly, slowly float?

{Apologies to Kate Greenaway}


20/25

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one nightSailed off in a wooden shoe Sailed on a river of crystal light

Into a sea of dew.Where are you going, and what do you wish?

The old moon asked the three.We have come to fish and play in the ripples,

And laugh each time the water tickles!{Apologies to Eugene Field}


21/25

Mud is very nice to feelAll squishy-squash between the toes!

Id rather wade in wiggly mudThan smell a yellow rose.

Nobody else but the rosebush knowsHow nice mud feels

Between the toes.{Apologies to Polly Chase Boyden}


22/25

Ive grown accustomedTo putting on a happy face.To always make them laugh.

Nothing but smiles and jokesSo everyone goes away happy.

{Apologies to Nathanael Dungan|

Its not Halloween, yet faces can hide Their true identity is hidden inside.

{Apologies to Larry Terry}


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What are you able to build with your blocks?Castles and palaces, temples and docks.Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,But I can be happy and building at home.

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,There Ill establish a city for me:

A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,And a harbor as well where my vessels may ride.

Now I have done with it, down let it go!All in a moment the town is laid low.Block upon block lying scattered and free,What is there left of my town by the sea?

Yet as I saw it, I see it again,

The kirk and the palace, the ships and the men,And as long as I live, and whereer I may be,Ill always remember my town by the sea.

{Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson}


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Whether you paint or draw,Dig, hammer, chop or saw Just be sure to enjoy it all!

{Apologies to Walter de la Mare}


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Sorry now youre leaving, were sad to see you go.

And when you miss our fun, were always here you know.Dont forget to keep in touch, letter, email or phone.

And of course wed love to see you, anytime at our home.

Cousin to cousinYoull always be,Special friendsFrom the same family tree!

Through you

Well see the futureThrough usYoull know the pastIn the presentWell love one another

As long as these moments last!

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