Yesterday at the Hole-in-the-Wall used book store I found a copy of Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhyme Book. This was a favorite of my daugher's when she was very young. We used to read them together until she knew them by heart. She liked to say, "There once was a guineable ami-pig." instead of "There once was an amiable guinea-pig" and it cracked us both up. Is there anything more fun than discovering your child has a sense of humor?
Two poems for my daughter:
There once was an amiable guinea-pig,
Who brushed back his hair like a periwig—
He wore a sweet tie
As blue as the sky –
And his whiskers and buttons
Were very big.
Beatrix Potter
Appley Dapply, a little
brown mouse,
Goes to the cupboard in
some-body’s house.
In somebody’s cupboard
There’s everything nice,
Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits,
-- All charming for mice!
Appley Dapply has little
sharp eyes,
And Appley Dapply is so fond
of pies.
Beatrix Potter
