Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I’iv been to London to look at the Queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair. ∼ Porter G., Hilda Offen, Pradera, Esme Eve, Alan Jesset, Richard Hooke
Read More »Pump Our Tyre
This is the way we pump our tyre. This is the way we pump our tyre. And it goes higher and higher. And it goes higher and higher. Puncture makes the tyre low. And it goes sh…………………o.
Read More »Prickly Porcupine
Prickly the Porcupine Was curled up in a ball, You wouldn’t know an animal Was lying there at all. He heard somebody calling And he tried to have a look, But found he couldn’t move his head – Poor Prickly was stuck! Instead of walking on his legs He had to roll along, And tried to find his mummy To …
Read More »Portrait of A Lady – Ranjit Hoskote
Objects are lessons; from bowls, hairpins, brooches, you learn of forgotten lives. The stories say my grandmother was a fever tree: two birds sat on her branches, one pecking at a grape, the other singing an aria. What history’s bookkeepers do not show is the tremor down the spine she felt, the tendril of blood that coiled in her nose …
Read More »Poppet The Poodle – Barbara Giles
I’m a poodle called Poppet-a peach of a pet, (though I let the side down, when I once bit the vet!) But hastily passing that by, let me say, I’m greatly improving myself, day by day! Now poodles are pops, and poppet’s my name, just show me my ball, and I’m set for a game! They don’t leave me out, …
Read More »Pitter-Pitter Raindrops
I hear thunder, I hear thunder. Oh, don’t you? Oh, don’t you? Pitter-patter raindrops; Pitter-patter raindrops; I am wet through! I am wet through!
Read More »Put Your Right Hand In
Put your right hand in. Put your right hand out. Put your right hand in. And shake it all about. You do the boogie-woogie; And that’s what it’s all about. Put your left hand in… Put your right leg in… Put your left leg in…
Read More »Play Nicely – Barbara Giles
The kids next door have everything you can think of and yet they love to come in and play with us. Their mother makes an awful fuss. Says, “You’ll come filthy, in such a mess!” Oh yes! That’s just what they like about our place. Nobody says, “Go wash you face,” or “Look at your shoes! Look at your hair!” …
Read More »Piggy On The Railway Line
Piggy on the railway line. Picking up the stones. Down came the engine, And broke Piggy’s bones. “Ah!” said the Piggy, “That’s not fair”. “Oh!” said the engine driver, “I don’t care.”
Read More »Picnic In Animal Forest
They are having a picnic in Animal Forest, The guests were invited by Zebra, you see. And Elephant’s eating a cucumber sandwich While Monkey eat sweets in the coconut tree. Miss Kangaroo’s filling her pouch with a plateful Of cakes for the young ones to eat with their paws, And baby Hippo is covered with jelly- How he had such …
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