Rhymes help prepare your child to sound out words as he learns to read. Personalize or change a rhyme to add variety.

There was a little man, whose colour was of tan,
I found him in the kitchen, in an old tin pan.
Although I did not hate him, I broke him up and ate him.
It did not hurt him one little bit.
Because that little man, whose colour was of tan,
Was a gingerbread man!