The Little Prince
As we enter the holiday season, you can expect a number of posts on children’s books. I have mentioned several times how one of my father’s great joys when we were growing up was reading us the books he had loved as a child. We got extra reading around the Christmas season. Here’s a poem my father wrote one Christmas about some of those books. See how many you can identify.
Also, please feel free to write in listing your own favorites.
AN ABC OF BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
By Scott Bates
A is for Anne—and for Alice of course;
B is for Black Dog—and a Beautiful Horse;
C is for Coasts of the Chankly Bore;
D is for Dickon and the Secret Door;
E is for Eeyore and Edward Bear;
F is for Frodo from Far Over There;
G is for Gluck, and for Gulliver, too;
H is for Huck, and for Horton’s Who;
I is the Island of Fair Calypso;
J is for Jo; and for Stories Just-So;
K is for Kim, and for Kaa, and Kehaar,
L is the Little Prince, perched on a star,
M—M. Poppins, and M.M.’s Repose;
N—the Nautilus, and Pinocchio’s Nose
O is for Oswald, and Ozma (and Tip);
P is for Peter, and Pod, Puck, and Pip;
Q is Quixote, attacking those sheep;
R is for Robin, and Reepicheep;
S is for Sherlock, and Sinbad the Sailor
T is for Tock, and the Brave Little Tailor;
U is the Ultimate Unicorn;
V is the Voyage to the Valley of Beorn;
W is Wilbur, and the Water Rat;
And
X marks the spot where the treasure is at;
So
Yo-ho-ho and a Bottle of Sprite!—
Come
Zip up your tunic, we’re riding tonight!
You can find the answer key after the break:
The Books: (a) Anne of Green Gables; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; (b) Treasure Island; Black Beauty; (c) Collected Verse of Edward Lear; (d) The Secret Garden; (e) Winnie-the-Pooh; (f) Lord of the Rings; (g) The King of the Golden River; Gulliver’s Travels; (h) Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; Horton Hears a Who; (i) The Odyssey; (j) Little Women; Just-So Stories; (k) Kim; The Jungle Book; Watership Down; (l) The Little Prince; (m) Mary Poppins; Mistress Masham’s Repose; (n) 20,000 Leagues under the Sea; Pinocchio; (o) The Treasure Seekers; The Land of Oz; (p) Peter Pan; The Borrowers; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Great Expectations; (q) Don Quixote; (r) The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; (s) Sherlock Holmes; The Arabian Nights; (t) The Phantom Tollbooth; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; (u) The Last Unicorn; (v) The Hobbit; (w) Charlotte’s Web; The Wind in the Willows
