Selected Riley Child-Rhymes


Read by Val Grimm

(4.8 stars; 8 reviews)

Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American working-class childhood. (Summary by Val Grimm) (0 hr 23 min)

Chapters

Little Orphant Annie 2:36 Read by Val Grimm
The Raggedy Man 2:21 Read by Val Grimm
Curly Locks 1:58 Read by Val Grimm
The Bumblebee 1:27 Read by Val Grimm
The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me 1:50 Read by Val Grimm
The Runaway Boy 1:58 Read by Val Grimm
The Little Coat 2:29 Read by Val Grimm
Nine Little Goblins 2:55 Read by Val Grimm
Grandfather Squeers 4:16 Read by Val Grimm
A Life-Lesson 1:33 Read by Val Grimm