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Title: The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog; My Mother

Author: Walter Crane

Release Date: December 19, 2007 [eBook #23895]

Language: English

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THE BUCKLE MY SHOE PICTURE BOOK

Containing:

ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE
A GAPING-WIDE-MOUTH-WADDLING-FROG
MY MOTHER.

With the original coloured pictures
and a preface & new designs by
WALTER CRANE

[Illustration]

London:
John Lane
The Bodley Head

New York:
John Lane Company

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE

A GAPING-WIDE-MOUTH-WADDLING FROG

MY MOTHER

[Illustration]

PREFACE

Well, I must buckle to, and put a good face (pre-face) on the matter as
I have to introduce the latest addition to the already considerable
family of Crane-reprints.

Here we have those delightful rigmaroles "ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE" and
"A GAPING-WIDE-Mouth-WADDLING-FROG": but what, it may be asked is "MY
MOTHER" doing in such company? I shrewdly suspect, if we knew the truth,
that she is really the author of both. It is probable, however, that
both legends have been transmitted through a long line of mothers,
assisted perhaps, by nurses, but I had them direct from my Mother.