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)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Little Orphant Annie
02:36 - Chapter 2
The Raggedy Man
02:21 - Chapter 3
Curly Locks
01:58 - Chapter 4
The Bumblebee
01:27 - Chapter 5
The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me
01:50 - Chapter 6
The Runaway Boy
01:58 - Chapter 7
The Little Coat
02:29 - Chapter 8
Nine Little Goblins
02:55 - Chapter 9
Grandfather Squeers
04:16 - Chapter 10
A Life-Lesson
01:33