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From:Word Ways (Vol. 39, Issue 4)In July 2006 B.D. Stillion wrote Everywhere [on the Web] I see mentioned Eckler's clever and masterful nursery rhyme lipograms, but nowhere do I see a reference of where they might be available to read (other than...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKunstmarchen (art fairytales) are everybody's business, and so no one's, for Kunstmarchen studies fall uneasily between the areas of folklore and folktale, on the one hand, and fantasy fiction and children's literature...
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From: Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922[(essay date 1994) In the following excerpt, Avery outlines several critical arguments that have accompanied the publication of Mother Goose fairy tales and nursery rhymes since the nineteenth century.] Fairy-tales did...
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From: Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style[(essay date 2005) In the following chapter from her book-length study of Rossetti, Hassett investigates the hidden complexity of Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book.] Admirers of Rossetti have looked for a single word...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 41, Issue 2)Mark Isaak, inspired by Ross Eclder's "Resilience of the Lambs," adds his version of Mary's lamb poem. He uses only words with doubled letters. And there's more. According to Mark, "I think the hardest part of making...
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From: BooklistPreS-Gr. 2--This stylish nursery rhyme collection [Mother Goose] is the second this year to envision Mother Goose as a city dweller. But unlike Nina Crews, who set The Neighborhood Mother Goose in modern-day Brooklyn,...
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From: School Library JournalPreS-K-- The title [The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock] may sound more like a children's literature thesis than a nursery rhyme, but the content is pure fun. The book begins with the traditional Mother Goose rhyme. As...
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From: Victorian Poetry[In the following essay, Conner explores the relationships between “Goblin Market” and Rossetti's other works, maintaining that the use of repetition in Rossetti's devotional poetry establishes a sense of “confirmed...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 50, Issue 3)* Humpty Dumpty is sitting on a wall. He doesn't notice Alice until she comments that he resembles an egg. Humpty Dumpty is offended by this. * Humpty Dumpty says that Alice's name is stupid because it has no meaning...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 45, Issue 3)Anil provides a new Mary Lamb constraint, to "maxi-condense it. Aim for the maximum number of words or letters that tell the story. It's hard to tell if a version is adequate since we know the story so well we might...
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From: Bookbird[(essay date April 2002) In the following essay, Benthall offers a critical examination of the "Mother Goose" character, arguing that the origins of the fictional nursery rhyme matron are found in "history, literature,...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 117. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Marguerite de AngeliBook of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes (nursery rhymes) 1954William S. and Ceil Baring-Gould, editorsThe Annotated Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes Old and New [illustrations by...
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From: Horn Book Magazine(Intermediate) Illustrated by Sue Truesdell. Move over your copies of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky and make room for Alvin Schwartz's collection of folk poetry [And the Green Grass Grew All Around]. Full of...
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From: School Library JournalPreS-Gr 1--The pace is rigorous, the rhymes are silly, and the all-female cast is strong as these women track down the cause of smoke and ultimately discover it to be a birthday cake for an octogenarian. The text [of...
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From: School Library JournalK-Gr. 4--When the Queen of Hearts discovers her strawberry tarts missing, she calls in Mother Goose, "Chief Detective of Nursery Rhyme Crime" [in The Top Secret Files of Mother Goose!]. The clues include a trail of...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides translations of and commentary on folk nursery rhymes from Bengal, drawing on various printed texts. The rhymes include songs of sleep, rhymes of mother love, verses on the doings of a generic...
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From: Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Children's Literature, Volume Two: Fairy Tales, Fables, Myths, Legends, and Poetry[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Bagnall maintains that de la Mare's poetry speaks most especially to children.] Children may come naturally to poetry; it is certainly present in the cadence of their first...
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From: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy[(essay date December 1996-January 1997) In the following essay, Polette utilizes Mother Goose nursery rhymes to demonstrate how students can expand their knowledge of literary formulation by experimenting with...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 44, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: This essay explores the subversive elements and gender issues embedded within the playground rhymes of New Zealand children using a database of materials collected from throughout the country from 1990 to the...