Includes index.

My kitten / Anonymous -- Moon / William Jay Smith -- Song for a child / Helen Bayley Davis -- Montague Michael / Anonymous -- The dancing bear / Albert Bigelow Paine -- When you talk to a monkey / Rowena Bennett -- Brothers / William Cole -- Monkeys on the bed / Anonymous -- Little Miss Limberkin / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The old woman / Beatrix Potter -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- The sea gull / Leroy F. Jackson -- The prayer of the little ducks / Carmen Bernos de Gasztold -- The duck / Ogden Nash -- The hairy dog / Herbert Asquith -- Old sager / Anonymous -- Tom's little dog / Walter de la Mare -- Dogs / Frances Cornford -- Dance a jig / Anonymous -- I had a little pig / Anonymous -- The rabbit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Grandfather frog / Louise Seaman Bechtel -- The polliwog / Arthur Guiterman -- The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay -- The pum na-na frogs / John Lyons.

The lion / Hilaire Belloc -- Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / John Agard -- Catch him, crow! / Anonymous -- A little cock sparrow / Anonymous -- The secret / Anonymous -- Mrs. Peck-Pigeon / Eleanor Farjeon -- The sea / Anonymous -- Samuel / Bobbi Katz -- Jim-Jam pyjamas / Gina Wilson -- The donkey / Gertrude Hind -- Riding to market / Anonymous -- I had a little horse / Aonymous -- Oliphaunt / J.R.R. Tolkien -- I asked my mother / Anonymous -- from Spring / William Blake -- Billy goat / Anonymous -- Climbing a steep hill / Kwaso -- from To a butterfly / William Wordsworth -- Although the night is damp / Anonymous -- from Firefly / Li Po -- "Please don't go!" I called / Onitsura -- The kangaroo / Anonymous -- Here is the ostrich / Anonymous.

A collection of poems about animals by English and American writers.