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Sing a song of Sleepy Head; being readable rhymes for curious children

James W. Foley · 1922 · Scanned text · Free in the US

16,733 words · about 1 h 10 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1922, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/22020935); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
James W. Foley
Language
English
Published
1922
Length
16,733 words · about 1 h 10 min
Sections
50 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (50)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Foreword about 1 min
  3. Contents about 2 min
  4. Prologue about 26 min
  5. Epilogue about 1 min
  6. II Afloat with the Swans about 1 min
  7. III On the Deep Blue Sea under 1 min
  8. IV The Naval Dolphin about 1 min
  9. VI The Queen’s Admiral under 1 min
  10. VII The Starry Flag under 1 min
  11. VIII The Flying Fish under 1 min
  12. IX The Queen's Messenger about 1 min
  13. XI under 1 min
  14. XII Isabel Has a Nap under 1 min
  15. XIII The Journey’s End under 1 min
  16. XIV The Commodore Whale about 1 min
  17. XV Isabel Sees the Queen under 1 min
  18. XVI Lord Fox Appears under 1 min
  19. XVII under 1 min
  20. XVIII The Queen's Cabinet under 1 min
  21. XIX The Bear Policeman under 1 min
  22. XX A Stout Old Chap under 1 min
  23. XXI The Queen's Carriage under 1 min
  24. XXII The Snail Coachman about 1 min
  25. XXIII about 1 min
  26. XXIV The Lamplighter Giraffe about 1 min
  27. XXV The Jeweled Elephants about 1 min
  28. XXVI The Giant Fireflies about 1 min
  29. XXVII The Queen's Palace under 1 min
  30. XXVIII The Grave Storks about 1 min
  31. XXIX Isabel Grows Tired under 1 min
  32. XXX A Wonderful Day about 1 min
  33. XXXI The Housemaid Goose about 1 min
  34. XXXII The Stork Brings Breakfast about 1 min
  35. XXXIII The Dancing Turtles about 1 min
  36. XXXIV The Strange Quartet under 1 min
  37. XXXV A Turtle Dance about 1 min
  38. XXXVI Doctor Wise Owl's School about 1 min
  39. XXXVII The Spelling Dog under 1 min
  40. XXXVIII The Animal School under 1 min
  41. XXXIX The Ciphering Pig under 1 min
  42. XL The Stupid Goose about 1 min
  43. XLI The Parrot Class about 1 min
  44. XLII The Timid Mouse about 1 min
  45. XLIII The Black Bear Cooks about 1 min
  46. XLIV School Out under 1 min
  47. XLV Isabel Asks a Question under 1 min
  48. XLVI The Queen's Story under 1 min
  49. XLVII The Witch's Spell about 1 min
  50. XLIX The Black Witch about 16 min
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Front matter

CCBCRIGHT DEPOSIT

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

BOYS AND GIRLS Illustrated

Foreword

This collection of rhymes includes a play for children and grown-ups, a romance from the enchanted land of dream, an adventure with rollicking spirit and narrative.

Old and favorite friends are encountered in strange places and fancifully adventuring. The rhyming has been done with tunefulness and goodhumor, and a swinging rhythm that it may have charm in the reading. And if there is any share of the delight in the reading that there has been in the doing I shall be satisfied.

The book is dedicated to two hundred thousand school children who have laughed with me in friendly hours in school, and to those others who might have laughed had I been able to read to them all.

J. W. F.

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