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Chapter 14: The Picture Book.

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About This Book

A collection of short, illustrated verses that portray infants and toddlers in familiar domestic scenes—play, naps, mealtimes, mischief, outings, and simple fantasies. Each poem uses rhythmic, child-friendly language to celebrate sensory details, family relationships, and small adventures, often observing twins, siblings, neighborhood babies, and everyday mishaps like jam on the face or rainy-day confinement. The volume reads like a series of affectionate snapshots aimed at entertaining and soothing young readers and caregivers.

The Picture Book.

Wonderful pictures the children see,

Howard, and Marie, and Kitty,

You will say when you look at the three

They must think the pictures pretty.

Wonderful pictures all of them see,

Birds, and flowers, and people,

Soldiers all marching so gallantly,

A church with a great high steeple.

Wonderful pictures all of us see,

Pictures the whole world over.

Look in my eyes, dear one, and tell me,

What picture you can discover.

A wonderful picture is near to me.

Cannot you find it, my dearie?

Look in the glass, I am sure you will see

One of which I never weary.