The collection includes more than 100 folklore poems, riddles and limericks in English for children. Some of them are adjacent to their famous translations by S.Ya. Marshak ("Humpty Dumpty", "The House That Jack Built", etc.). The poems are provided with a dictionary; at the end of the collection there is an alphabetical index of the first lines of the poems. The collection is intended for students in grades 5-7 of secondary schools, grades 2-5 of schools with in-depth study of the English language, lyceums, gymnasiums, as well as for everyone starting to learn English.