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5.0
One of the very first children's story books I can remember. Along with The Classic Volland Edition of Mother Goose. It contained "The Little Red Hen", "The Travels of a Fox", "The Three Bears", "The Straw Ox", "The Old Woman and Her Pig", "The Three Little Pigs", "Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse", "Johnny and the Three Goats", "Chicken Licken", "The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen", "The Bremen Town Musicians", "The Lambikin", "Three Billy Goats Gruff", "Little Tuppens", "The Wolf and the Fox", "The Cat and the Mouse", "The House on the Hill."
I most fondly remember the art for "The Three Bears" (and Goldilocks) and "The Three Little Pigs" as well as "The Bremen Town Musicians".
There seems to be a unnoticed for connection between "The Little Red Hen" and "The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen" with the Red Hen in one case making bread from a seed; and the next cooking a meal and getting her roommates the Cock an Mouse out of a scrape from a bad fox intent to feed them all to four little foxes.
Largely the rest were cause-effect rhymes where one character would "need something" to do a thing and get it done by asking another to do it, over and over, until someone or something did it as act of kindness - or it ended with death.
I most fondly remember the art for "The Three Bears" (and Goldilocks) and "The Three Little Pigs" as well as "The Bremen Town Musicians".
There seems to be a unnoticed for connection between "The Little Red Hen" and "The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen" with the Red Hen in one case making bread from a seed; and the next cooking a meal and getting her roommates the Cock an Mouse out of a scrape from a bad fox intent to feed them all to four little foxes.
Largely the rest were cause-effect rhymes where one character would "need something" to do a thing and get it done by asking another to do it, over and over, until someone or something did it as act of kindness - or it ended with death.
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