A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go.
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The drawings portray Mr. Frog, Mr. Rat, and the tragic ending to the
festivities at Mousey's Hall.

Caldecott was a fine literary artist, who was able to express
himself with rare facility in pictures in place of words, so that
his comments upon a simple text reveal endless subtleties of
thought.... You have but to turn to any of his toy-books to see
that at times each word, almost each syllable, inspired its own
picture.... He studied his subject as no one else ever studied
it.... Then he portrayed it simply and with inimitable vigor,
with a fine economy of line and colour; when colour is added, it
is mainly as a gay convention, and not closely imitative of
nature.
GLEESON WHITE.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator). (p. 25)
Hey Diddle Diddle, and Baby Bunting.
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The pictures to Hey Diddle Diddle are instinct with joyousness. Baby
Bunting's father was a jovial huntsman of the old English type.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator).
The House that Jack Built.
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Children will be greatly amused by the funny Rat.

"That ate the Malt,
That lay in the House
that Jack built."

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator).
The Milkmaid.
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We are glad when the young squire, whose interest in the destination
of the pretty maid the old song recounts, meets his proper deserts
through the clever pencil of Mr. Caldecott.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator).
The Queen of Hearts.
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These pictures suggest in color and design those found on playing
cards, and they are very good indeed.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator). (p. 26)
Ride a-Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, and
A Farmer Went Trotting upon His Grey Mare.
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Wouldn't we all like to ride these sturdy nags through the lovely
English country, even if we weren't to have the extra attraction of
seeing a fine lady on a white horse?

Children will love to read of the stout farmer and his pretty
daughter, who went trotting to market,

"Bumpety, bumpety, bump!"

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator).
Sing a Song for