Akron Public Library

In this Halloween version of a familiar cumulative rhyme, the inhabitants of a haunted house get increasingly agitated until a group of children sets things right.

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant.

"This is the house where Jill plays. This is the oak that holds the house where Jill plays. This is the nut that fell from the oak that holds the house where Jill plays ... So begins Sangeeta Bhadra's The Nut that Fell from the Tree, a cumulative tale that pays homage to "The House that Jack Built," and a playful account of how difficult it is for an acorn to grow up into an oak! The story follows the acorn along an arduous journey, in which, after...

A retelling of the cumulative folktale in which a silly chicken and her barnyard friends run around shouting that the sky is falling.

In this cumulative rhyming story, a cat runs after a mouse in the middle of the night, giving rise to a more complicated chase.

Explains how, in rat law, cheese belongs to whoever finds it, unless someone bigger, faster, or more important wants it.

A quirky teacher swallows a desk and multiple other items to decorate a classroom in this adaptation of the familiar folk song.