Nursery Rhymes
Baby's First Bookshelf
Introduce the new arrival in your life to the exciting world of books with Orca's Baby's First Bookshelf. This packaged set, wrapped in an inscription band for personalizing your gift, features three of our bestselling board books.
Titles include: Alligator, Bear, Crab, Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug, and Welcome Song for Baby.
Emily's House
Young children will delight in the humor of this rhyming cumulative tale that describes how a little brown mouse encourages Emily, who is distressed by the creaks and squeaks in her house, to fill it with a variety of animals — a tabby cat, a puppy dog, a black sheep, a billy goat, a brown cow and a turtle dove. As a result the house becomes incr …
Humpty Dumpty and Friends
Meet old favorites like Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee and, of course, Humpty Dumpty. Then make new friends with some less-known rhymes like Robin the Bobbin, the Three Wise Men of Gotham, and the Lion and the Unicorn. Oleg Lipchenko has selected twenty traditional rhymes to illustrate with his enormously skillful and witty images. Perfect for gift-gi …
It's Raining, It's Pouring
Little Girl means what she says and has the resources to get results. Not one to mope away the day watching the rain pour down, Little Girl struggles into her boots, raincoat and fire fighter's helmet, gets out the ladder and heads for the clouds.
Old Man is a giant who lives in the clouds and controls the weather. He does, indeed, have "a cold in h …
It's raining, it's pouring,
The Old Man is snoring,
He went to bed with a cold in his head,
And he didn't get up in the morning.
Rain, rain, go away,
Little Girl wants to play.
Little Book of Nursery Tales
The Little Book of Nursery Tales contains some of the best-known nursery tales in the tradtional European storytelling canon. But it also contains some tales which have taken on a Creole flavor after years of being told and retold in Latin America. The reader will encounter familiar favorites such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Lit …
Little You
Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns, has partnered with talented illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that honors the child in everyone. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Little You …
Little you
little wonder
Little wish
gentle thunder
You are mighty
you are small
You are ours
after all
Other Goose
Artist and designer Barbara Wyn Klunder takes on classic nursery rhymes and turns them on their heads, adding her own quirky twist to familiar favorites.Rock-a-bye baby laments the loss of her treetop to logging. Old Mother Hubbard must resort to a food bank. Jack and Jill discover that their well water is polluted, and Mary watches her garden flou …
Over in the Meadow
Jan Thornhill’s trademark ingenuity brings this well-loved 19th century rhyme to a new audience in a captivating and original way. Thornhill has created an magical, imaginary world made up of everyday objects: a forest of broccoli, a beaver dam of pretzels, a dragonfly with paperclip wings. Who could have thought berries, twist-ties, light bulbs, …