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10 Responses to “Does Anyone Know a Story about Chatter Chin?”

1. Cherie Says:
   April 21st, 2011 at 11:12 am

   I remember a poem from THE JOLLY JINGLE BOOK called “Chatter Chin” Itr goes something like this:
   Everyday when I come in, I hear my little chatter chin
   chatter this and chatter that
   First the dog and then the cat
   Yarns she picked up from the cook
   Stories from her fairy book
   Questions wiser than she know
   How the honeysuckle grows
   Why the firefly has light
   Why the moon comes out at night
   What keeps birds up in the air
   What makes people have red hair
   I give up when you begin
   Little chatter chatter chin

2. Cathy Hicks Kennard Says:
   May 7th, 2011 at 8:47 pm

   Hi,

   Cherie was right, and I have the book right here. The Jolly Jingle Picture Book, published first in 1926. The one I have was given to my father for his 2nd birthday in 1942. Here’s the full poem:

   Chatter Chin

   Every day when I come in
   I hear our little Chatter Chin
   Chatter this and chatter that;
   First the dog and then the
   cat,
   Yarns she picks up from the cook,
   Stories from a fairy book,
   Questions, wiser that she
   knows,
   How the honeysuckle grows,
   Why the firefly has a light,
   Why the moon comes out
   at night,
   What keeps birds up in the
   air,
   What makes people have
   red hair.
   I give up when you begin,
   Little Chatter, Chatter Chin.

   My grandmother used to read this book to my brother and me all the time. We called it the Grandmother book.

   Cathy

3. John Says:
   June 17th, 2011 at 10:42 pm

   Boy does that take me back!

4. Stephanie Bradley Says:
   July 24th, 2011 at 7:08 pm

   Same book, what is the one about the banyan tree? I had all of those memorized when I was little, but now they are there in the back of my mind in a patchwork quilt. I went to a natural history museum yesterday with a ‘banyan tree” and that poem played in the back of my head, but I could NOT recall the whole thing.

5. Cherie Says:
   July 24th, 2011 at 8:03 pm

   The Banyan Tree
   A little yellow monkey in a banyan tree
   One morning got the giggles going tee-hee-hee
   He tittered all the morning as silly as could be
   He snickered all the evening going tee-hee-hee
   And then he went to snoozing in the banyan tree
   And dreamed that all the fishes in the bright, blue sea
   Were dancing on the breakers going tee-hee-hee

   Also from the Jolly Jingle book

6. Cynthia Says:
   March 28th, 2013 at 4:16 pm

   I had that book as child and would like to find a copy of it.

7. Joe Dunn Says:
   February 6th, 2016 at 3:28 pm

   I was born in 1934, and remember my Mom reading this poem to me an older brother and a younger sister. I also remember the illustrations in this book. I don’t know what happened to the book, and would have loved to have been able to read it to my own children and grandchildren. Thanks for sharing this fun poem from the “Jolly Jingle book.” JD

   By the way, has anyone heard of “The First Story of the Whale” It was written and illustrated by Harry Clark, and published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in1938. I have not been able to locate extra copies for my family. It was a favorite of mine, and a favorite of my children.

8. Lisa Says:
   February 6th, 2016 at 3:32 pm

   The Jolly Jingle Book is available used on Amazon.

   The First Story of the Whale by Harry Clark is on Amazon too – but it’s very expensive.

9. Allyn Says:
   April 2nd, 2020 at 2:22 am

   I have my copy also given to me in 1942. My favorite poem was When the Clipper Came In
   One early influence that led to lifelong travel.

10. James Says:
    November 27th, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    you can borrow and read the book for an hour at a time from
    https://archive.org/details/jollyjinglebook00jack

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