Nineteen impishly illustrated poems present a unique cast of babies and witches, sausages and robbers, and a few favorite nursery-rhyme characters sure to entice everybody who ever was a baby.

Monday is washday -- Dirty Bill -- When I was just a little child -- If you meet a witch -- Summer snowmen -- Nativity -- Dinah Price -- Sausage whistler -- Small hairy mouse -- Dangerous to know -- Good old dolls -- Happy school -- Monster munch -- Soccer sonnet -- Cinderella -- Elephants vs insects -- Lizard Man -- Everybody was a baby once -- Ping-pong song -- Friday is fishday -- Shut the shutter.