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Stories in rhyme

Here are entered short fictional works written in rhymed text. Novel-length fictional narratives expressed in poetry are entered under Novels in verse.

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• Fiction
• Narrative poetry

• Stories in rhyme -- Animals
• Stories in rhyme -- Juvenile
• Stories in rhyme -- Juvenile fiction

• Rhymed stories
• Rhyming stories
• Stories in verse
• Verse stories

• Chickies (New York: S. Gabriel Sons and Co., 1920) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? A Book of Animal Sounds, by Grace Maccarone, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Ten Little Bunnies, by Nurit Karlin, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Fairy-tales up to now (San Francisco, California : Paul Elder and Company, [1904], 1904), by Wallace Irwin, Tomoyé Press, and Paul Elder and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Around the year. (H.Z. Walck, 1957), by Tasha Tudor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King Winter. (Globe Pequot Press, 1985), by Gustav W. Seitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hofball : eine ballade für meine jungens ... (Kiepenheuer, 1913), by Börries Münchhausen and Hans Alexander Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of Cinderella; being the true history of Eleanor de Bohun, and her lover, Hallam Beaufort, duke of Somerset: together with divers happenings concerning the mysterious black knight, and other illustrious persons: also setting forth the unnatural and inhuman conduct of the Lady Eleanor's stepmother, and her two stepsisters, Mistress Rotraut and Mistress Dowsabel. Herein truthfully set down in rhyme (R.H. Russell, 1902), by Ella Maud Boult and Beatrice Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the window : pictures & rhymes for children (London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., [1900?], 1900), by Kate Greenaway and Edmund Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miss Muff and Little Hungry. (Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1866), by Anna Bartlett Warner, Anson D. F. Randolph, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School). Publication Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little rhymes for little readers (Rand, McNally, 1910), by Wilhelmina Seegmiller and Ruth Mary Hallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Jingle, and Sucky Shingle. (Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, 1825), by James Kendrew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of logic (Longmans, Green, 1908), by George Hayward Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atta Troll (B.W. Huebsch, 1914), by Heinrich Heine, Willy Pogány, and Ballantyne Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annie and Willie's prayer (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1888), by Sophia P. Snow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brownies at home (Century, 1893), by Palmer Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Henry (Printed for S. and J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, 1810), by Daniel Nathan Shury and S. and J. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plish and Plum (Little, Brown, and Co., 1900), by Wilhelm Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slovenly Peter : or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks. (J.C. Winston, 1920), by Heinrich Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topotun i knizhka (Gos. izd-vo, 1926), by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ionov and M. T︠︡Sekhanovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hoe Piggelmee groot werd : Oorspronkelijk sprookje vervolg op het toovervischje (in Dutch), by Lambertus Cornelis Steenhuizen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Van het toovervischje : Een oud sprookje op nieuw verteld en berijmd (in Dutch), by Lambertus Cornelis Steenhuizen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bog-land studies, by Jane Barlow (Gutenberg ebook)
• A slemíl keservei (in Hungarian), by Ignotus (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hole Book, by Peter Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hidden Cabin: a pathetic story in condensed form, by David W. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse, by Larry Leigh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Old-Time Spelling School; In Three Parts, by John G. Ellenbecker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack Jingle, and Sucky Shingle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prinzeßchen im Walde (in German), by Sibylle Olfers (Gutenberg ebook)
• König Löwes Hochzeitsschmaus (in German), by Sibylle Olfers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lays of Ancient Babyland: to which are added Small Divers Histories not known to the Ancients, by Richard Trott Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Vliegende Kogel (in Dutch), by Jan Rinke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Griselda: a society novel in rhymed verse, by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fires - Book 3: The Hare, and Other Tales, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fires - Book 2: The Ovens, and Other Tales, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fires - Book 1: The Stone, and Other Tales, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Red Riding Hood, by Lydia L. A. Very (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Elephant's Ball, and Grand Fete Champetre: Intended as a Companion to Those Much Admired Pieces, the Butterfly's Ball, and the Peacock "At Home.", by W. B. (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Twelve Labours of Hercules, Son of Jupiter & Alcmena (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Slant Book, by Peter Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rocket Book, by Peter Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Hero and a Great Man, by Francis Kruckvich (Gutenberg ebook)
• [Rufus Rastus Brown] (Chicago: J. I. Austen & Co., 1901) (page images at Florida)
• Denslow's Night before Christmas (New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1902), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by W. W. Denslow (page images at Florida)
• A book of nonsense (1875), by Edward Lear (page images at Florida)
• Cock Robin (London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1897), by E Veale and Hubbard Publishing Co (Copyright holder ), illust. by Palmer Cox (page images at Florida)

• Jungle jokes for nursery folks ([New York, New York] : Colgate & Co., [1911], 1911), by Jessie Imbrie Miller and Colgate & Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Every man his own poet. (Cupples, Upham & Co., 1885), by W. H. Mallock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dame Wiggins of Lee. (Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent : George Allen, 1885., 1885), by Kate Greenaway, John Ruskin, Richard Scrafton Sharpe, and Mrs Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle jokes for nursery folks ([New York, New York] : Colgate & Co., [1911], 1911), by Jessie Imbrie Miller and Colgate & Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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