Rhymes

• The House that Jack Built

The Caldecott Medal is given every year to “the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year.” Did you ever wonder who Caldecott was and why he deserved to have such a prestigious award named for him? If you have a good broadband connection, you can read The House that Jack Built at project Gutenberg. I understand why an artist would be proud to win a Caldecott.

• The Blackleg Miner
• Toward Better Grammar
• Fleas, and Others
• To extract a square root (two rhymes)
• The Daniel Jazz
• The names of the Apostles
• I’m My Own Grandpa
• waka waka
• Haiku
• We’ll all go together when we go
• Hallelujah, I’m a bum
• The Stonecutters’ Song
• Hiawatha Designs an Experiment
• Hiawatha’s Photographing
• Arthur B. Frost’s illustration of “Hiawatha’s Photographing” and Lewis Carroll’s photography.
• The Hunting of the Snark
• Experimental Error
• Evolutionary Hymn
• King of the Road
• The Song of the Strange Ascetic
• Little Dot Coms
• Neunundneunzig Luftballons (Ninety-nine Red Balloons)
• Dem Bones
• Ezekiel Saw a Wheel
• The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
• At the Table
• What’s the best poetry to learn by heart?
• Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry
• The Annals Say, by Seamus Heaney
• The Conquerors, by Phyllis McGinley
• The Truce of the Bear, by Rudyard Kipling
• The Dragon Speaks, by C.S. Lewis