Purple bandReady now · Open and print today

Riddles to Guess

From The Nursery Rhymes of England, by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps

The Nursery Rhymes of England was compiled by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps in the nineteenth century and preserves hundreds of old English rhymes, riddles, and songs. This reader retells a handful of the riddle-rhymes as a simple guessing story. Riddles teach children to think in new ways, to notice details, and to see how words can hide and reveal at the same time. These riddles have been enjoyed by English-speaking children for generations. This text reflects its era.

Band

Purple · Pre-readers and first readersTypical starting range: ages 4–5

Length

short · about 333 words in 6 sections · 4 pictures

Source

The Nursery Rhymes of England, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and William Bell Scott

First published

see the About page in the reader

Regions

Canada · United States

Included formats

• · Web reader and PDF
• · EPUB for e-readers
• · Home-print sheet
• · Folded booklet
• · Binder edition (8.5 × 11)
• · Worksheet
• · Quick Check (6 questions) with answer key
• · Read-aloud script
• · Colouring page
• · Teacher’s Edition (members)

Readers are engineered from the original public-domain text with AI under HummingRead’s published canon and Content Philosophy, checked by automated audit and sampled by a person. Pictures are made with AI to HummingRead’s brief for each story. How a reader is made.

Report a concern about this reader · What’s in a HummingRead reader