Children's

The Big Bully (My version of the Sicilian folktale 'Godmother Fox')

Once upon a time an ogre stole a little girls doll just to be mean and the little girl was sitting weeping and sobbing when a bear came walking by. "...

Poor Tom Cat

Tom Cat once thought he'd caught a mouse but when he looked it was a grouse. A great, big grouse with feathers, red that pecked Tom Cat upon the head.

Who Followed The Pied Piper? (Song)

Who followed the Pied Piper? A little girl called Jean. She followed the Pied Piper all through the forest green. Who followed the Pied Piper? Two...

The Secretary Bird

The secretary bird unlike a parrot cannot speak. It types all of its words on a typewriter with its beak. One hundred words per minute it can type...

The Fence

She liked her field. She knew where everything was, what to expect and it had a beautiful little hedge that bordered it. She occasionally would hear...

A tree grew in a garden (Rhyme)

A tree grew in a garden, all covered in pink blossoms but the wind blew so hard on the little tree it lost them. Instead of pretty flowers, it grew...

Tale Of The Greedy Cat

Once a little girl who had a little cat gave it a little cat food and it got very fat. It got very fat but that didn't matter. She gave it some more...

The Shellkin

One warm summer day, a little girl call Sally was playing in her garden when she saw a shiny object lying under a bush and going over to see what it...

Cintinella: The Girl Who Wept Diamonds

Once upon a time a little peasant girl named Cintinella was born who, when she cried wept diamonds from her eyes and because she could do this an...

The Wooly Hippopotamus (Children's Poem)

The wooly hippopotamus lived a long time ago. In an age time forgot, it was; the age of ice and snow. It used to eat a lot of us when we were ice age...