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Includes the text of two Christmas carols.

Illustrated text of the well-known carol is accompanied by a brief history of the real Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia, and how the song about him came to be written.

An illustrated version of the famous Christmas song.

An illustrated version of the popular song enumerating favorite things, from raindrops on roses to silver-white winters melting into springs.

Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up.

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

Family and friends gather on a New England beach to savor the wonderful foods at a clambake.

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.