Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (Rossetti - paperback)

Author: Christina Rossetti

ISBN: 9780486221076

Binding: paperback

Section: Childrens-Classics

These verses — deceptively simple, light, often like a nursery rhyme in character — consider such topics as childhood activities, children's cruelty and gentleness, roses and wild flowers, nesting birds and farm animals, cold winter and blossoming spring. Many pose riddles and conundrums ("A hill has no leg, but has a foot;/A wine-glass a stem, but not a root"). This is the only edition in print to reproduce the poems with the illustrations which originally accompanied them.