Dear children!
In this book you will be reading some popular English
poems. In times gone by parents and grandparents used
to tell t h em to their children and grandchildren, and they
in their turn told t h em to their children. In this way these
verses were handed down from generation to generation,
and then they began to be published in books.
In this collection are more than 100 English poems.
They include rhymes, riddles, limericks, etc. Reading
and learning English verses by heart will give you great
pleasure and will also be very useful. You will remember
a lot of new words and expressions and you will learn
more about English people's lives.
The book consists of five sections: Rhymes about
Animals; Rhymes about Nature; Rhymes about People;
Jingles and Wonders; Songs and Riddles.
The poems in each section are arranged according to
specific topics and in increasing order of difficulty. You
are, therefore, advised to read the book from beginning
to end without missing anything out.
If after reading the whole book you want to re-read
and perhaps learn one of the pieces by heart, a full table
of contents and an alphabetical index of the first lines of
the poems will help you to find it.
