I present this collection of Little Rhymes in the belief that the love of reading begins, like most things, as a tiny seed of fun and joy.
Grandpa Penci's little rhymes include those with a message, those just a tad quirky and some that are just plain fun.
Included, along with Grandpa's own, are the works of some of your favourite writers.

Grandpa Pencil how I wish
That plastic bags were jellyfish
'Cause every time I see the rain
I know they gurgle down the drain
And wander slowly out to sea
To end up as a turtle's tea.

Featuring in this section, along with William Shakespeare's, are the selected works of William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, John Donne, Boethius, Ben Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith , Thomas Gray, Andrew Marvel, John MIlton and William Butler Yeats.
The pieces have been chosen for purely selfish reasons: I just happen to like them.

An extremely effective way of looking at a particular period in history is through it's poetry, verse and song.
This section is just the beginning of our collection with much more to follow.
The selection looks at the victories and defeats, the joys and the hardships of colonial life and shows the result of being in a very strange place thousands of miles from home.

Back in the times when the TV was actually the Court Jester these rhymes were often of a highly political or personal nature and, as such, offer a cryptic insight into the people and politics of the time.