This was one of my favorite children's books by Robert Louis Stevenson. Julie bought me a new copy for my birthday one year. I still have my Mother Goose from my childhood. "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey." My kids all loved "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe." They also loved "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat Side by side on the table sat." These were by Eugene Field who was from St. Joseph, MO. If you think about the nursery rhymes and the gingham dog and calico cat, they were a little violent. "Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after." And the gingham dog and calico cat ate each other up. My kids used to get a big kick out of these poems.
What were your favorite childhood books?
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