Little Jack Rabbit and Mr. Wicked Wolf by David Cory

Now, I think Little Jack Rabbit would have made Uncle John Hare a call if all of a sudden he hadn't stopped to listen to Bobbie Redvest sing:

"Professor Jim Crow in his little Wisdom Book Tells how to catch the fishes with a pin hook. So you, Simple Simon, with your mother's pail, Listen to Professor Crow if you'd catch a whale."