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Nursery Rhymes - verses, generally brief and usually anonymous, for children. The best-known examples are in English and date mostly from the 17th cent. A popular type of rhyme is used in "counting-out" games, e.g., "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo." The subject matter of the rhymes has been linked by some scholars to actual events in English political history. Most famous of


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    The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book » Read Now

    by Iona Opie, Peter Opie, Joan Hassall. 226 pgs.

    ...200 years the transmission of nursery rhymes has been aided by print; and if...there are almost certainly more nursery rhymes alive in the language today than...in our...
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    The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes » Read Now

    by Peter Opie, Iona Opie. 564 pgs.

    This classic dictionary brings together over 500 nursery rhymes, songs, nonsense jingles, lullabies, and rhyming alphabets traditionally handed on to young children. All the items have been arranged alphabetically, from `A was an apple-pie' to `Yankee Doodle came to town' and include such favourites...
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    Thinking through the Arts (Chap. 9 "Nursery Rhymes") » Read Now

    by Wendy Schiller. 246 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Developed as an inclusive, broad-ranging & user-friendly text, this book presents the unique insight of teachers as researchers & counters the view that art is emotionally-based & therefore irrelevant to thinking & learning. The areas covered include drama, dance, music, arts environments...
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    The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America (Chap. 1 "The World Three Inches Tall: The Descent of the Nursery Rhyme") » Read Now

    by John Goldthwaite. 392 pgs.

    The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's...
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    English Children's Books, 1600 to 1900 ("A Note on Nursery Rhymes" begins on p. 76) » Read Now

    by Percy Muir. 258 pgs.

    ...75 A Note on Nursery Rhymes 76 An Alphabetical...all, the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes , so eruditely edited by the...Opie. Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ...
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    The English Carol » Read Now

    by Erik Routley. 274 pgs.

    ...The Seven Joys of Mary" we come almost into the realm of nursery-rhyme. The primitive versions of this in the medieval manuscripts...decasyllabic verses. In those Twelve...
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    The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ("Nursery Rhymes or Mother Goose Rhymes" begins on p. 382) » Read Now

    by Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard. 594 pgs.

    ...Press, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes , had been published seven years...1978 , which incorporates NURSERY RHYME and FAIRY STORY characters...Wonderful Lamp , A...
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    Shashthi's Land: Folk Nursery Rhyme in Abanindranath Tagore's 'The Condensed-Milk Doll,' in Asian Folklore Studies » Read Now

    by Sanjay Sircar. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...is not clear exactly how many nursery rhymes there are, which ones they are...or similar) generic type (here, nursery rhymes). This technique provides a...
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    A Common Nomenclature for Traditional Rhymes, in Asian Folklore Studies » Read Now

    by Syed Mohammad Shahed. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...most commonly referred to as "nursery rhymes" and "Mother Goose rhymes." In...gradually replaced by the newer "nursery rhymes" (NORGAARD) 1987). Researchers...The first use...
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    Children and Literature in Medieval England, in Medium Aevum » Read Now

    by Nicholas Orme. 29 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...play between the two. The term `nursery rhymes first occurs in the early nineteenth...misleading. It may imply that nursery rhymes are solely childish -- meant...
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    Times & Tides, in History Today » Read Now

    by Pamela Tudor-Craig. 3 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Bird Featherless, among the most beautiful of all nursery rhymes, and still too little known: White bird featherless...Featherless has a close cousin in the most familiar...

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