The Humpherys Family

The Story of Old King Cole

Record Added: 4/10/2010
Illustrator Anne Sellers Leaf
Series Rand McNally Elf Books
Setting England
Topic Nursery Rhymes
Publisher Rand McNally & Company
Year 1975
Age 4-8   Pages 28
 
Here is the traditional nursery rhyme but once the king has his fiddlers three he does not stop calling. Oh no, he keeps on calling for such things as pipers, his clerk named Clive, his clown, his band, his gold, his wizards, his Dukes and Dames and much more as the King is preparing a ball for his Queen. Cute little story that also has a counting theme as after the fiddlers three, there are the pipers four then footmen five all the way up to tailors ten. There is a tiny ladybug hidden in each two-page spread right from the title page,
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