| 单词 | nursery rhyme |
| 例句 | He recited the Crooked Man nursery rhyme, and grinned. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “How did you guess ‘nursery rhyme’ from this?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "You've heard the nursery rhyme about the little old lady who lived in a shoe?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown, thought Tristran to himself, remembering the old nursery rhyme. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Lelia recognizes this, too, and they all gallop on broomsticks while they recite an old nursery rhyme. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They were like nameless men in a scary nursery rhyme—the butcher, the iceman, and the barber—until Lettie identified them as Mr. Simon, Mr. Pickerton, and Mr. Cooper. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Keep in mind that almost any nursery rhyme can be used for these activities, as long as they have a steady beat, which luckily most of them do. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There was something about making the person with the head injury speak a favorite nursery rhyme so that speech patterns—slurring, et cetera—could be evaluated. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They include some very familiar nursery rhymes and action games appropriate for this age group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The few days inside had done her well, and she sang under her breath and into the top of her sweater, a nursery rhyme about a fiddle and a cat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z All night long, it seemed, his mother had sat on his bed in the dark, singing nursery rhymes, telling him stories, and as long as her dear voice was there, he knew he was safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The swing moved back and forth, creaking on its rusted chain, and it was like that old nursery rhyme, Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z And the voices wailed, Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The words went round in my head like a scary nursery rhyme, echoing into infinity. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He sighed as he pictured the tattered nursery rhyme book in the box by Boots’s crib at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He would have felt pretty silly reciting nursery rhymes at Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z They were to be identified by the maps they might sometimes consult and, on questioning, by their too-perfect English and their ignorance of common nursery rhymes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, the sweet sound of Mama’s nursery rhyme began to sing in my head. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As she walked against the flow of morning traffic, she ran through the nursery rhymes she remembered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Because of my habit of walking around telling my favourite stories to anyone who cared to listen, word soon got around the class that I knew nursery rhymes and stories teachers didn’t know. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But I insisted, and so the thumping twangy bass noise resumed, and over it, a light baritone chanting in Caribbean patois to the rhythms of a nursery rhyme, or a playground skipping-rope jingle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He glanced up at the framed nursery rhyme over the mantelpiece. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Once we caught a wounded blackbird by throwing a blanket over it and figured we could make a blackbird pie, like in the nursery rhyme. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Also, she doubted he knew any nursery rhymes. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Stone Roses – Elizabeth My Dear So short it's almost a vignette or, to be more accurate, a nursery rhyme. Readers recommend: songs with jokes 2010-08-26T23:02:00Z For example, children’s nursery rhymes are 11 times more violent than television programmes aired before 9pm in Britain, one study found. Better and better 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The whole thing is thoroughly, unrepentantly unsuitable for children, and we only discovered it when it appeared on a “because you watched …” submenu after watching some nursery rhymes. Netflix, no! What's that penis doing on kids' TV? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The poem's rhythms, that potent blend of nursery rhyme and ragtime, still thrum through me: "You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe" rhyming daringly at the stanza's end with "Achoo". Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” was so inspired, he made up a presidential nursery rhyme. Dwayne Johnson Sounds Pretty Serious About Running for President 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Playing behind this scene is Timber Timbre’s dreamily evocative “Demon Host,” which incorporates some of the words from the old nursery rhyme “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple.” Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley’s Meta Masterpiece 2013-05-10T03:30:03Z The emo-inflected rock songs - standouts include "Populism Yea Yea," "I'm Not That Guy" and a haunting reworking of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" - propel the action forward without leaving too much of an impression. 'Bloody Andrew Jackson' puts the pop in populism 2010-10-14T00:32:00Z All the while, music played that carried off the impressive feat of being both playful and menacing, like a bedtime nursery rhyme that would later prompt nightmares. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne and Donatella Versace Both Put on a Show 2014-01-20T16:22:43Z Inspired by nursery rhymes and fairytales, this is sweetly subversive work that charms as much as it alarms. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z But now she is back with an ambitious, self-financed new project - Leave Your Sleep, a double album whose lyrics are entirely taken from old poems, nursery rhymes and lullabies. Talking Shop 2010-04-12T15:31:00Z The book reflects an inherited appreciation of variety: each chapter features a different genre – from nursery rhymes to Americana – and includes not only lyrics but also musical scores. Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z Since then he has illustrated about 300 books, from nursery rhymes to the Folio Society's Don Quixote. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z Only he's not a hirsute rocker or a podgy, superannuated pub crooner latterly and creepily making a living belting out nursery rhymes for adults. New band of the day – Dan Croll (No 1,390) 2012-11-08T16:38:00Z True, this album has plenty of kid-friendly instrumentation — accordion, softly elegant guitar, and what sounds like a penny whistle — but it’s no stroll to nursery rhyme heaven. Country Times: Songs to make a summer playlist sing 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Kraftwerk turn nursery rhymes and lullabies into pop after all, which marvel and wonder at the new world around them. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z So runs the nursery rhyme whose opening Jack O’Brien has made the title of his exuberant theatrical memoir, and it’s even apter than he may realize. Books of The Times: ‘Jack Be Nimble,’ a Memoir by Jack O’Brien 2013-06-20T21:34:04Z Kepler injects the sweet voice of a child chanting a nursery rhyme about bunnies before each execution-style death. Pop-Up Brothels, Severed Tongues and Creepy Nursery Rhymes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z I just don’t recall what, if anything, I had in mind, except for a name that would belong to a comic book character, or a character in nursery rhyme. A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z For many, the thought of medieval dining recalls “four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie,” from the popular 18th century English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The nonsense lyrics were replaced with nursery rhymes and the rhythms were shifted to make the song less stereotypical and more authentically Native American. Ugg-A-Wha? Updating Stereotypes in 'Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He groaned when someone requested his signature nursery rhymes. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The tune itself isn’t exactly new: It started as a simple nursery rhyme more than 20 years ago, a go-to singalong on school playgrounds and summer campgrounds. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z This was the nursery rhyme Edison recorded on his phonograph, so Bell tried it as well, reading “Mary Had a Little Lamb” complete with blooper and a sound of disappointment: “Oh, no.” American History Museum gives voice to inventor Bell 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z That laissez-faire attitude, expressed in nursery rhyme language, is worth pondering. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z One of them, “Mother Goose as a Suffragette,” is a collection of altered nursery rhymes like: Jack and Jill Have equal will And equal strength of mind. Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Every morning the actor playing Joe would preach to 150 of the cast and stunt team at the gym, running through nursery rhymes and have everyone pray to him. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One song, “Mama Cry,” is a jail-cell apology letter to his mother wherein he repents for the hurt he’s caused her in a cadence that resembles a sinister nursery rhyme. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The magpies of the title are a reference to the nursery rhyme correlating the number of magpies seen with good or bad luck: Maintaining the "Magpie Murders" main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Playwright Yee skewers stereotypes SiS delivers Yee satire The title depicts a negative ethnic stereotype, based on a nursery rhyme and left over from old Hollywood movies. Playwright Yee skewers stereotypes 2010-03-25T22:03:00Z Chapters are punctuated with nursery rhymes, paintings, newspaper clippings, letters and photographs — all shining a light on advances in clinical medicine and science alongside the meaning of childhood. Is This a Good Time to Be Born? Comparatively Speaking, Yes 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z As Babypants, he sings original tunes and old nursery rhymes and sometimes hybrids of the two, mixing his own lyrics into a standard tune. Babypants rocks their preschool socks off at Northgate center 2012-03-04T03:41:41Z Yes, there’s an occasional rhyming couplet, but most of the poetry in Shakespeare doesn’t sound anything like a nursery rhyme. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z At one point she veered into a disquisition about the impossibility of keeping friends in Hollywood — she finished by singing a nursery rhyme about friendship. The TV Watch: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Celebrate Gender Equality 2014-01-13T05:27:00Z Some singsongy melodies are swapped for the tunes of actual nursery rhymes. Keely Garfield Draws on Kate Bush at Danspace Project 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z “Being small for her age, I think the crowd was expecting that she might sing a nursery rhyme,” Mr. Kendrick said. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The analogy I like to draw is to the nursery rhymes of the nineteenth century, which covered all these intricate political situations and were the satire of their day. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He did the chintzy electro-surf beat and most of the vocals, flavoring the track with breathy, highly mannered sexcapade lyrics that sound more like nursery rhymes than raps. Friday Favorites: Mesita, Mash Hall, Rick Ross and Kanye West 2010-07-02T18:00:00Z When she was around, she was happy to rock my son, sing him nursery rhymes and bathe him. I grew callaloo to spite my mom: How cooking a Jamaican dish healed old wounds, plus how to make it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z She also broke up several songs with spoken-word interludes, which had the earmarks of fables, twisted bedtime stories or nursery rhymes for grownups. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z Such sensitivity did not extend, however, to a racial slur used twice in a children’s nursery rhyme and overdubbed for release in the United States. A Comedy of Manners, and Multiple Homicide 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z They feature traditional nursery rhymes as well as their own original songs. Toddler tries running away from home when Cocomelon is turned off 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 26: Our contest for novel takes on fairy tales, nursery rhymes, etc. Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Guglielmo Galvin was a master of light Businessmen who wanted to look important were persuaded to recite nursery rhymes, incorporating swearwords. Guglielmo Galvin obituary 2013-03-08T14:20:22Z Start with “Mother Goose nursery rhymes and simple Dr. Seuss beginner books,” advises Nesbitt. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z Disco Teeth is the closest thing here to a nursery rhyme proper, a sort of Wheels On the Bus for people who collect Warp CDs. New band of the day ? The Crayonettes (No 856) 2010-08-27T15:13:00Z They occupy the same brain space as nursery rhymes and Beatles tracks: you don't remember not knowing them. Anyone Who Had a Heart by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T08:00:02Z They are summoned by the nursery rhyme sung by the children, or drawn by the green glow of Tippi Hedren's matching skirt and jacket, or maybe lured by the pungent scent of her lit cigarette. My favourite Hitchcock: The Birds 2012-07-31T17:10:30Z And when the band gets loud, it does so with precision, as David Pajo's guitar breaks the crush with spindly upper-register notes that sound like a nursery rhyme gone wrong. FYF Fest 2014: Angel Olsen smolders while fans bake in lines 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Singing “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” Austin clearly savored the playful lyric that Fitzgerald helped adapt to turn the nursery rhyme into her first hit single. 'To Ella With Love' a missed opportunity at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Run Little Horsey sounds like a bid by Lowell to come up with a latterday nursery rhyme, her voice emanating both glee and creepy whimsy. New band of the day – Lowell (No 1,382) 2012-10-29T17:08:21Z The monster’s name is Larry, and his deal, we learn from a nursery rhyme in a spontaneously manifesting e-book, is that he wants a friend. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Van Alexander, a composer and arranger who adapted a nursery rhyme into “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” which became Ella Fitzgerald’s breakout hit in 1938, died on July 19 at a hospital near his home in Los Angeles. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Apart from the table, the stage is bare but full of change, quickening and dying under Paule Constable's lighting, made solemn or gleeful by the singing of hymns and nursery rhymes. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z The group’s sophomore EP, “Sons of the P” went gold, once again mining George Clinton for its carnal nursery rhyme single, “Kiss You Back.” Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z London's Millennium Bridge - which made headlines when it opened in 2000 because it was wobbly - now features some intriguing noises and music, from voices to nursery rhymes to church bells. AUDIO: Music and voices for Millennium Bridge 2012-08-31T06:09:05Z Or the gorgeous poem “Ash,” which is as scary and wise as an old nursery rhyme: In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The movie “is a cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters parachuted into a Spanish storybook setting,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in October. DVD: Jerry Lewis on DVD, ?Geisha Boy? and ?Boeing Boeing? 2012-02-19T03:43:03Z Think of nursery rhymes and childhood games – someone always dies. Gabriel Orozco: Permanent playtime 2011-01-24T21:29:00Z Chris took all his advice from nursery rhymes: kiss the girls and make them cry. The Bachelor Recap: A Unicorn, A Tiny Pony, and Ben Higgins 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z My father used to sing nursery rhymes to me and was really pleased when he sang, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” and I replied, “Once I caught a fish alive.” Experience: I woke up from a coma speaking French 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But since my traveling companion was my 1-year-old daughter, Sasha, conversation was generally pretty limited, and though I sang her nursery rhymes in Chinese, I can’t say my language abilities improved at all. Expensive Language Lessons? Doesn't Translate 2010-04-07T03:01:00Z As soon as she hangs up, she begins to melt down, flashing back to the mortifying episode, decades before, when as an overly confident 11-year-old, she attempted a nursery rhyme as a drama class monologue. Review: One Belfast Landmark Inspires Five Irish Monologues 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Get up there and sing a nursery rhyme; they'll pay £100 to come and see you. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z He said he named Wednesday after a line in the nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child,” which noted that “Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams in ‘The Addams Family,’ Dies at 64 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z “For years we’ve been doing the nursery rhymes with the kids, and it’s just so nice to bring them alive for them now.” Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z Throughout the dance, the sense of children serious at their play persists, with fragments of folk dance and the same fatalistic undertone one hears in certain nursery rhymes. Dance Review: Deganit Shemy?s ?2 kilos of sea? - Review 2011-09-16T23:36:23Z But it’s not quite like teaching nursery rhymes; maybe more like a composer teaching the basic idea of the scale and of chords. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Bored with entertaining their kids with the usual car-journey fodder on the stereo – Ten Green Bottles, Hey Diddle Diddle, Venus in Furs – they decided to record an album's worth of alternative nursery rhymes. New band of the day ? The Crayonettes (No 856) 2010-08-27T15:13:00Z It's a whole other thing to adapt a singer's voice and style to nursery rhymes. Adam Levine does a great Michael Jackson impression on 'Tonight Show' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z At one point, she listens to her children singing a nursery rhyme: Review | In ‘Here Is the Beehive,’ a philandering mother deals with the death of her lover 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z On top of this, the sensory curriculum I was subjected to became increasingly degrading: nursery rhymes, baby toys, and teachers talking to us like we were deaf toddlers. Experience: I talk with my eyes 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “My mother apparently said I could sing nursery rhymes in perfect tune when I was 2,” Ms. Durham once said in a television interview. Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The film is a “cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Black Panther’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The most pervasive forms of local advertising often feel like this—like nursery rhymes or urban legends, or something implanted in your most tender consciousness by a social version of natural law. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z I also regret not bothering to learn any nursery rhymes, which explains why I’ve spent a full year purely singing Jingle Bells to you. Stuart Heritage: I could sit and watch you all day – sometimes I do 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Playing with quotations, stock phrases and nursery rhymes is a device he employs throughout – "Everywhere that Mary went/ dynasties collapsed amid gnashing of teeth." Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z In Agatha Christie’s mystery, 10 people are trapped on an island, murdered one by one according to the sinister instructions derived from sinister nursery rhyme. What’s on TV Monday: The First Presidential Debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z At one point, a fan demands he tell an obscene nursery rhyme, his signature bit. Andrew Dice Clay Returns, With at Least Two Personalities Showing 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But according to the nursery rhyme, “When the pie was opened/The birds began to sing/Wasn’t that a dainty dish/To set before a king?” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z As always, the Empress was deluged with crazy-brilliant lyrics to songs ranging from nursery rhymes to obscure medieval carols to long raps to a full-length reworking of “American Pie.” Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “The Silk Road” is more like music in its harmonies: Davis pulls from folk songs, French ballads, nursery rhymes; from Hindu gods and Greek ones; from Chinese and Western astronomy. A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Of course, if you’re asking 12-year-olds to sing part of “Ten Little Indians,” a 19th-century nursery rhyme that includes disturbing lyrics involving the death of Native Americans, you need to explain why. In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Fitzgerald, who was singing with Webb’s band, approached him with the idea of adapting an old nursery rhyme into a swinging jazz number. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z That creepy nursery rhyme did far more of the trick. Doctor Who: The Beast Below ? series 31, episode two 2010-04-10T18:00:00Z Yet if Ms. Franklin told you she was going to take a classic R&B song and throw in a little nursery rhyme, you’d be nervous. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z For one piece, he assigned a given sound sample to each letter in the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty,” then let them all play out in succession. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z As in nursery rhyme or folk song, such a question is answered with a series of conditions: "When the kisses core hollow/ and the mattress sags sallow," etc. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z How on earth is “Mary, Mary” acting “quite contrary” in the nursery rhyme? Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z There’s nothing quite so creepy as a traditional nursery rhyme, the lyrics of which we sing to sleepy babies, without stopping to think what we are saying. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This little poem could be a medieval lyric: it could be a nursery rhyme or a carol. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z But it is "The Weasel", a sinister ballad adapted from the well-known nursery rhyme, that is surely the most remarkable poem in the book. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z After the phonograph debuted, Edison began developing talking dolls with tiny phonographs in their bodies that played familiar nursery rhymes and songs. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Besides the show’s memorable introduction, featuring a bouncy barnyard theme song reminiscent of a nursery rhyme, the character Mister Ed made an indelible mark on American culture by coining the phrase: “Willllburrrrr?” Alan Young, actor who played Willllburrrrr on ‘Mister Ed,’ dies at 96 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z On “East of the Village,” he ran through dense rhythms as casually as a kindergartener would a nursery rhyme. George Johnson’s joyful jazz was a lifetime in the making 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But unlike in the childhood nursery rhyme, the artist has put his shattered figures back together again. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z To me in 1983, aged five, it was a perfect nursery rhyme. The best No 1 records: Culture Club – Karma Chameleon 2012-05-31T20:29:00Z When Fitzgerald enters, listeners are treated to a reworked nursery rhyme that asks little of them other than to sit back and enjoy. Behind Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Around the 1930s, ceramics companies in the U.S. started taking artistic liberties, likely drawing on the nursery rhyme, and the vents morphed into whimsical birds with open beaks. All about pie birds, the whimsical Victorian-era baking tool 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z I’ve been trying to think of a metaphor – an opera singer teaching nursery rhymes? In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z This is performed by two members of Supergrass and was signed off by Nintendo after Wright wrote to the Japanese company describing the game's music as "nursery rhymes to a generation". Edgar Wright: why the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack matters as much as the movie 2010-08-18T15:47:00Z The changing energies of the score are part of the spell; these are tunes you sing as you leave the theater — they feel as familiar as nursery rhymes. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z "The rhythm is distinctive and the melodies are like nursery rhymes – singable and really effective," said Copeland, who now tours Europe every summer with an Italian pizzica group. Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat 2011-08-27T23:07:14Z That same Heaney-Hughes anthology, alongside Ogden Nash and nursery rhymes, includes a poem of Smith’s, “Fairy Story,” which is among the most evocative I know. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The darker finale juxtaposes swirling violin figurations with both plainchant and a German nursery rhyme declaimed by the orchestral players. LSO/Gergiev 2010-05-17T21:45:00Z Kawabe sang in a multitude of voices: a child reciting nursery rhymes, a shrieking warlock, an opera singer. SXSW: Psychedelia lives! 2014-03-14T15:03:00Z A humbling element of the process is that she had to learn how to tap dance from square one, practicing with a nursery rhyme tap video one of the show’s choreographers, Ayodele Casel, sent her. Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s about the breaking of things that — as the nursery rhyme goes — can’t be put back together again. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Grandma sings the kiddos a cautionary nursery rhyme and recites the rules. Review: 'When Evil Lurks' calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Messiah, born when Solomon was 21 and Taysia was 20, is learning nursery rhymes. 'He's just very much on a mission': Family fuels Solomon Byrd's USC breakthrough 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Children under the age of 3, for example, should be shown nursery rhymes and programs that can be watched with parents, according to documents from the Cyberspace Administration of China. China Wants Children to Spend Less Time on Their Smartphones 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Be it about teaching nursery rhymes, discussing emotions or helping children to talk, each “Songs for Littles” video starts with a theme. ‘Now, Let’s Be a Starfish!’: Learning With ‘Ms. Rachel,’ Song by Song 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Only 10 minutes long, the magical realist “Thirst,” prompted by the nursery rhyme “Jack and Jill,” was created when composer T.J. Frustrated by limited opportunities, 3 Seattle friends started own opera company 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Songs included French classics and nursery rhymes, but also others with a more questionable past including songs linked to the Spanish fascist Falange of the 1930s and Nazi Germany. Macron tries to escape French pension row with street song 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The text is peppered with quotations from playfully cruel French nursery rhymes. Review | Four new sci-fi and fantasy novels featuring bizarre transformations 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Was Wednesday, a “child of woe” as the nursery rhyme goes, staring at us or through us? Perspective | Wednesday Addams, a character who spans ’60s sitcoms and viral TikToks 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z So let us pledge this day to not treat King’s words like some nursery rhyme, something we recite by rote once a year. Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by practicing his words, continuing his work 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z When it was his turn, he recited the nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy" as he squeezed Kennedy's toes. Doctors ignored her concerns about her pregnancy. For many Black women, it’s a familiar story 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z "She loved nursery rhymes and when on FaceTime with me she'd make me do the 'head, shoulders, knees and toes' song," he said. Nottingham fire death family were planning new life in USA 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The New York Post’s front cover on Thursday put Trump’s face over the drawing of a boy from a well-known nursery rhyme. Sharp attacks on Trump from Rupert Murdoch’s news outlets 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z When I’m alone in an elevator with another person, I subtly signal that I’m not a threat by intoning nursery rhymes under my breath. Style Invitational Week 1505: Munici-pals 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The book Splat the Cat Goes to the Doctor and the nursery rhyme “This Is the Way We Brush Our Teeth” are typical examples of media that teach the essentials of health to U.S. kindergartners. A Cure for Vaccine Hesitancy Could Start in Kindergarten 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Like his hero, Nudy has a thing for nursery rhyme cadences, but he likes to deliver his lines in lullaby timbres. Review | Young Nudy made some of the summer’s hottest rap by keeping his cool 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Cocomelon, a popular streaming children’s show, has a “Stay Healthy” baby nursery rhyme with lyrics such as “Working out is good for you.” Wellness culture gone wrong has come for kids 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Many of her works were inspired by literature or nursery rhymes, repurposing literary or folk characters like the Three Blind Mice, Jane Eyre and Snow White. Paula Rego, whose art captured ‘the beautiful grotesque,’ dies at 87 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A feminist who helped change the way women are depicted in art, she explored subtexts of sex and violence in Portuguese folk tales and nursery rhymes. Renowned Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego dies at 87 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The one who marched up the hill and down in the nursery rhyme may have been Richard, the third Duke of York, who sparred with King Henry VI in the 1400s. York strips a title from Prince Andrew. But it’s hard to take ‘Duke of York.’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z At the time, I had — barring nursery rhymes — never read any poetry at all. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z During the trial she told the court she was beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school or making friends. Cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan dies in prison 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "She said that whenever I told her naughty jokes, it sounded like a nursery rhyme. So that gave me permission." Betty White’s ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ castmate details their bond: ‘She gave me permission to tell naughty jokes’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z That's especially a problem for BoE Governor Bailey, who according to Barwell, has a "Grand old Duke of York" problem, a reference to the English nursery rhyme describing a futile action. Analysis: Clear or confused? Central banks' communication skills set for ultimate test 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Equipped with a miniature phonograph in place of a heart, the antique toy once emitted nursery rhymes. An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But when there’s that great rhythm to it, it just goes in like a nursery rhyme or an earworm. Thanks to Hamish Linklater, there's a new hot priest in town 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z A 6-year-old-boy wanted to know if there are cows on the moon — like in the nursery rhyme. Tom Cruise gets sneak peek from SpaceX's first private crew 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z According to a tweet, the children wanted to know whether there are cows on the moon - like in the nursery rhyme. SpaceX’s 1st private crew motivates cancer kids from orbit 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Nayak teaches everything from popular nursery rhymes to the importance of masks and hand-washing to about 60 students and is popularly known as the “Teacher of the Street” to the grateful villagers. In remote Indian village, teacher turns walls into blackboards to close school gap 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The nursery rhymes are interrupted intermittently with laughter as the narrator forgets the words. Winston Churchill, Kermit and Janet Jackson preserved for posterity 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z They reconvene to solve a series of bizarre assaults connected somehow to the English nursery rhyme referenced in the book’s title. 3 new crime fiction books to help you ring in the new year! 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z She also released an album of children's nursery rhymes. GeeSixFive: The woman who became a pop sensation at 65 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z One critic called it "nursery rhymes for children", prompting Bunyan to quit music for the next 30 years. Why The Avalanches ditched their record collection 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Such devices are central to nursery rhymes, bedtime tales and other children’s stories, which, given the setting of the novel, is a sensible inflection. Emma Glass tells a nurse’s tale in slim, poignant new novel ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In the woods, they listened to Bigfoot-believing women sing nursery rhymes, banking on the widely held theory that women’s singing voices would lure the hairy, behemoth forest dweller from the shadows. What hunting Bigfoot taught a Republican congressman about politics 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z You plod through scales and struggle to play nursery rhymes as if they were Rachmaninov, and then you give up because it’s all too hard. Roli Lumi review: a portable keyboard that lights the way for first-time musicians 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z "Alright, look. Sometimes, well oftentimes, things get intense here in the iron paradise, but we ain't playing tiddlywinks and we ain't reciting nursery rhymes," said the star in the video. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson suffers face injury during workout: 'Things get extremely intense' 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The nursery rhyme lyrics reducing a man to a sack of bones and blood? Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Craft activities, quizzes and nursery rhyme sing-a-longs were recorded by staff at home, and newspaper articles and an 'On This Day' history series were shared online. How libraries provided a lifeline in lockdown 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s an old hit, and exactly what the title suggests: oompah rhythms, accordion accompaniment, and lyrics halfway between nursery rhyme and sexual innuendo. Ja Ja Ding Dong! How schlager found its joyful place in the pop camp 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Secret agents and surprises figure in this tale featuring an assortment of popular nursery rhyme characters. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Then, laughing together, “Kookaburra,” the Australian nursery rhyme. Contagious singing as Corona Community Chorus unites voices 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Disney Plus and nursery rhymes supersede game video and notes. From a teenager living at home to a father of five, D.C. United players face new realities 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z International Children’s Digital Library: You’ll find award-winning books for various reading levels, including a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Bored and on a budget? Here's how to read for free while social distancing 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z He complains that organisations implementing education projects often employ underqualified tutors who teach only basic phrases and nursery rhymes, failing to utilise the talents of refugees. Rohingya demand role in running camps and tell NGOs stop ‘ignoring us’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The first songs most people hear as children are nursery rhymes and lullabies. 'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The married duke was the commander-in-chief of the armed forces – thus the nursery rhyme, The Grand Old Duke of York – so this was corruption on a huge scale. Prince Andrew and the royal crisis: How the Firm lost its grip 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The company has described its song as being based on a “traditional nursery rhyme.” ‘Baby Shark’ Smells Money Onstage 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z So let’s play out this first week of the election campaign with the prime minister shambling about, like the grotesque illustration to some cautionary nursery rhyme. Lurching and rambling, Boris Johnson is in charge. But he’s lost control | Marina Hyde 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z They keep streaming in, the girls with their heads covered, books in hand from nursery rhymes to mathematics. Barricades and books: life in restive Kashmir neighborhood 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Even then, children’s rights advocacy groups complained that YouTube was blatantly ignoring that many of its biggest channels were dedicated to young children, including toy unboxings and nursery rhyme compilations. Complaint filed against a popular toy channel on YouTube could lead to big ad changes 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z YouTubers who create videos for children, like unboxing toys or nursery rhymes, must also clearly label their content as being intended for kids. YouTubers say kids’ content changes could ruin careers 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Understandably so: In the toughest parts of New Orleans, some children are raised singing a nursery rhyme seemingly written to prepare them for incarceration at the penitentiary, better known as Angola. Next Arena for Criminal Justice Reform: A Roof Over Their Heads 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A children’s online privacy law in the United States, by contrast, applies only to nursery rhyme apps and other services directed at children under 13. The Baroness Fighting to Protect Children Online 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The singing of a nursery rhyme sets in motion a bloody curse that awakens a demonic figure. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But there’s another popular genre of YouTube kids’ media: Channels that post nursery rhymes and animated sing-alongs at an astounding rate, racking up millions of views. YouTube boosting 'quality' kids' videos wreaked havoc on some channels 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a facet of the change that coincides with Bloomberg’s reporting: it found that channels that “post nursery rhymes and animated sing-a-longs at an astounding rate” were racking up millions of views. YouTube’s recent algorithm change explains why your feed is full of children’s videos 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “For Sama” is a nursery rhyme whispered from a nation’s horrors, a plea for never forgetting. Review: 'For Sama' tells of a mother's searing choice for a daughter born into war 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Its update for BBC Music Day in September will add songs from 20 countries including India, Pakistan, and Jamaica, as well as football and rugby songs, religious music and nursery rhymes. Nile Rodgers: My mom, Alzheimer's and me 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “These pieces represent well-known nursery rhymes, fairy tales, stories and characters such as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears,’” said Curtis. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art gives the Comic-Con crowd a sneak peek 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, Hunter said she saw a traffic surge from a particular kind of nursery rhyme video. YouTube boosting 'quality' kids' videos wreaked havoc on some channels 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Like a lullaby or a nursery rhyme, the sequence of excuses blends into the voices of the kids on the beach. “The Children” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Waiting patiently while shy kids were coaxed from their parents’ sides to stand in front of his table to recite a nursery rhyme, or sing in a near-whisper. Broadway Bound’s Jimmy Nixon had ‘an incredible gift to connect and inspire’ young actors 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z When Siwa’s Target shopping spree clip ends, YouTube recommends an unending series of other clips that also appeal to young kids including nursery rhymes, cartoons and toy “unboxing.” Kidfluencers’ rampant YouTube marketing creates minefield for Google 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z My toddler would watch cheap, repetitive, unbearably cheery nursery rhyme videos for an hour if I let him. Parents: don't panic about Momo – worry about YouTube Kids instead | Keza MacDonald 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z It sounded like a nursery rhyme sung from the unquestioning perspective of a child. Rhiannon Giddens: ‘I see this album as part of a movement to reclaim black female history’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Martinez was homeschooled until he was 10, and as a result learned “ancient poems and prayers” while “other kids were learning nursery rhymes”. 'I love calling out politicians': meet the student suing Trump over climate change 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It sounds like the beginning of a children's nursery rhyme: "I painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan." Why is everyone painting this woman? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead, she holed up with him at a Starbucks in Gardena near his brother’s preschool, helping him read a Japanese nursery rhyme. L.A. teachers' strike brings day of disruption for thousands of students 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He sings with a broad Cockney accent, he raps a nursery rhyme, he dances with hand-drawn animated animals. In 'Mary Poppins Returns,' Lin-Manuel Miranda arrives as a movie-musical star 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The ability to say "yes" or "no" or even to repeat a nursery rhyme. The bang on the head that knocked English out of me 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z They realise the man they sang nursery rhymes in praise of is not indispensable, and that their poverty is not inevitable. With Bobi Wine, people power could finally win in Uganda | Patience Akume 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Norman sang it, though, in a small, spookily calm voice, like a child repeating a terrible nursery rhyme that he couldn’t yet comprehend. The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z I switched on YouTube and scrolled through a list of baby nursery rhymes, finding hundreds of videos with millions of views. I allow my baby screen time. Don’t judge me. Learn how I do it 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Stewart then read the script and “it proved to be a nice inside look of something I only knew the nursery rhyme version of.” Chloë Sevigny has been trying to make 'Lizzie' for 10 years, and it took Kristen Stewart to do it 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Little Baby Bum usually publishes long videos, often up to an hour, featuring 3D animated characters and performances of nursery rhymes. YouTube nursery-rhyme channel sold by UK couple 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Not every accused murderer gets a nursery rhyme written in their honor, or has had film directors and heavy metal singers take their name as an edgy, feminist statement. Review: Lizzie Borden tale is methodical and measured to a fault 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The company is presumably making bank on these shoddily animated nursery rhyme videos that have no plot and teach children no lessons. The viral ‘Johny, Johny’ kids’ videos are a godforsaken nightmare 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z There are thousands of nursery rhymes, cartoons, and options for young children online. I allow my baby screen time. Don’t judge me. Learn how I do it 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z “It took me six years to write my first play,” he said, recalling that he found the title for “Come Blow Your Horn” from one of his daughter’s nursery rhyme books. Gentle humor was the lifeblood of playwright Neil Simon 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “This time a very kind Frenchman allowed me to struggle with my high school French for eight long hours, and he taught me a French nursery rhyme which I remember to this day,” she wrote. Perspective | Plane talk: You never know who you’ll meet on an airliner 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z With Bangladesh opposing formal schooling for the refugees, relief agencies run makeshift “learning centers” where teachers pass the time with drawing, games and nursery rhymes in English and Burmese. Worldwide, 1 in 110 people is displaced from home. Here's what life is like for some of them 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z See also: Kindergartners singing nursery rhymes about school lockdowns. Lullaby written for school shooting drills 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The pubs are valued for their architecture and history, including one designed around the nursery rhyme "This is the House that Jack Built", and one themed around the Romans in Britain. Historic post-war pubs given listed status 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “Last year, my granddaughter said, ‘let’s just make it all fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Marietta resident brings fairy tales to life in her garden 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It's a warning that goes unheeded by millions of children around the world who visit YouTube to watch cartoons, nursery rhymes, science experiments or videos of toys being unboxed. YouTube targets kids with ads, say privacy advocates, who want FTC to investigate 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s a warning that goes unheeded by millions of children around the world who visit YouTube to watch cartoons, nursery rhymes, science experiments or videos of toys being unboxed. Child advocates ask FTC to investigate YouTube 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z While interacting with the children will never cure or reverse memory loss, certain songs or nursery rhymes will jog residents’ memories. Intergenerational component one part of Indiana preschool 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The pub was built as an irregular eight-sided polygon and contains a single bar area with the layout of a spiralling "nautilus shell", reflecting the horn in the nursery rhyme the pub is named after. Historic post-war pubs given listed status 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z I think it prompts some discussion about nursery rhymes and fairy tales,” Elliott said. Marietta resident brings fairy tales to life in her garden 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z In the spirit of the old nursery rhyme she is a "pussycat pussycat who met the Queen" when Her Majesty visited the cathedral in 2013. Whiskers in the workplace: More cats with careers 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The children's nursery rhyme about washing faces, combing hair and putting on clothes is thought to have originated at Wakefield Prison in the 1700s. Your questions about England answered 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z A small child cries inconsolably as her ice-cream cone tumbles from her pushchair and someone, lying on his back against the warm pebbles, is whistling a nursery rhyme. The guidebook that led me to a lost corner of England 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The Catholic conspirator joined the plot late in the game, but it’s his name sung in the nursery rhyme schoolchildren still memorize and his effigy that burns each Nov. 5 in bonfires around the U.K. Kit Harington’s ‘Gunpowder’ Revisits One of the First Terrorist Attacks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z They published several other anthologies of nursery rhymes, which Mrs. Opie later called “the smallest great poems of the world’s literature.” Iona Opie, scholarly explorer of the lore and customs of childhood, dies at 94 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The “vika,” as the creature is known, was apparently once familiar enough that it featured in Vangunu children’s songs and nursery rhymes. Giant Tree-Dwelling, Coconut-Eating Rat Species Discovered 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z “Give me some more of your nursery rhymes.” Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather Jr. spar — but only verbally — in London 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The brothers choked back tears at the sound of their mother Veronica, sitting in the audience on Saturday, singing a Greek nursery rhyme she used to wake them up with. In emotional return to Greece, Antetokounmpo promises to help youth 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Caldecott went one step beyond the nursery rhyme by relating it to life. Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z According to the nursery rhyme, sugar and spice are what little girls are made of. Ta-ta tutus: how fashion reclaimed tulle 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z To contemporary ears, its simplistic drum-machine programming and nursery rhyme rap cadences may sound too basic to appeal except at the level of historical curio. Run-DMC – 10 of the best 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In the song “Play,” a bunch of actors playing Barrie’s cast dance around a tavern, merrily belting out the nursery rhymes and make-believe games they loved as kids. ‘Finding Neverland’ a perfect puff piece for kids 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z UK cinemas are showing an advert for a brand whose name, at this point, is principally linked in the national consciousness to a nursery rhyme farmer. The McDonald's drive-thru at 30: A journey back to an exotic experience - BBC News 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z It included the US top five hit Children’s Story, a grimly compelling morality tale in the guise of a lilting, funky nursery rhyme culminating in several shootings. Slick Rick: ‘You learn from prison time – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It sounded like Adam Levine from Maroon 5’s snotty kid brother singing what I thought at first was a nursery rhyme. When bad music comes on the radio, I crank up the volume | David Ferguson 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Dr Leong's research shows that nursery rhymes are a particularly good way for the mums in her study to get in sync with their babies. Infants' brains attuned to baby talk and nursery rhymes - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Two centuries after the “gunpowder plot” failed, a nursery rhyme immortalized the act. Guy Fawkes Day, or Bonfire Night, Celebrates Gunpowder Plot A forlorn girl clutches a large stuffed bunny as demented nursery rhymes cut with copter blades stream through speakers. This Los Feliz teen has neighbors lining up to be scared 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z As a certain English nursery rhyme suggests, walls are frequently tied to bad events. The History of Walls Show They Are a Bad Idea 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “But when he raps it sounds like nursery rhymes.” The Reinvention of Gucci Mane 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Mums who sang nursery rhymes looking directly at their babies held their attention significantly better than those who gazed away, even occasionally. Infants' brains attuned to baby talk and nursery rhymes - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He created many of the fiberglass fairy tale and nursery rhyme figures that inhabit the park. Storybook Land celebrating 40 years 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z On hour eight of a Caracas line for toilet paper, sweaty strangers sang nursery rhymes and cheered as they watched a 1-year-old learn to walk. Life on the line in Venezuela as economic crisis worsens 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The absurd realism draws you in like a nursery rhyme. Top 10 dads in picture books 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z A pushchair holding a baby was grabbed by a would-be robber who ran around in circles singing nursery rhymes. Pushchair snatched by would-be robber in nursery rhyme taunt - BBC News 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He said he got the idea from an old nursery rhyme. Your Thursday Briefing: Donald Trump, Dilma Rousseff, Baghdad 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z She giggles and is persuaded to join him singing a nursery rhyme. Reinventing China's abortion police - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The songs are deceptive miniatures, nursery rhymes with a dangerous edge. Los Angeles Philharmonic pays tribute to its late new-music mentor Steven Stucky 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z There was nothing about the persona I found appealing, and none of the jokes — dirty nursery rhymes were his signature shtick — made me laugh. Andrew Dice Clay is flawed, fearful and much more likable in 'Dice' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z His message: The Texas lawmaker’s public recital of nursery rhymes is not the stuff a commander-in-chief is made of: Adele and Bill Cosby star in 2016's harshest attack ads so far 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Near the Children’s Zoo in Central Park, the Delacorte Music Clock offers nursery rhymes and a cavalcade of dancing animals. New York Today: On the Clock 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z She recalls the town center where she played, and getting to tell nursery rhymes over the loudspeaker. Obama aide tells of her own childhood flight from government detention camp 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Speaking about the nursery rhyme, the woman said she had overheard a neighbour singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when she was 13 and began to sing it herself. Cult head daughter 'denounced as fascist' over nursery rhyme - BBC News 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Her voice was soft and enchanting, as if she were forever narrating a nursery rhyme. On the Trail, Every Day for 30 Years 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Hunter’s lyrics pulled from a wide variety of sources, from blues standards to nursery rhymes. 5 concerts chronicle the story of the Grateful Dead 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Hunter's lyrics pulled from a wide variety of sources, from blues standards to nursery rhymes. 5 concerts chronicle the story of the Grateful Dead 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Think four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie is only a nursery rhyme? How Did Shakespeare's Kitchen Differ From Today's? 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The recordings inside, which featured snippets of nursery rhymes, wore out quickly. Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The families assigned to shelter in the kindergarten section slept under the colorful walls adorned with alphabets, numbers and nursery rhymes. At a Nepal school-turned-shelter, lessons in resilience in quake aftermath 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Considering that some of today’s classic nursery rhymes are more than two centuries old, there are often several theories surrounding their origins—and not a lot of sound proof about which argument is correct. The Dark Origins of 11 Classic Nursery Rhymes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The song “Play,” in which actors who play actors act out nursery rhymes in a tavern is nifty, but out of place. Review: Bway’s ‘Finding Neverland’ never finds its groove 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Now retired, she continues to rewrite classic nursery rhymes, a hobby she began back in 1932 when her son was just 4 years old. Hastings woman shows resilience through life experience 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Other than a few bruises, the girl is in great condition - playing, talking and reciting nursery rhymes, said father Deven Trafny. Baby rescued from river after crash released from hospital 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z At the time, Clarkson said he avoided using a racist word while reciting a well-known nursery rhyme while filming the car show, but begged forgiveness from audiences after admitting that “it sounds like I did.” BBC suspends ‘Top Gear’ host Jeremy Clarkson 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z In many respects, the book resembled Lewis Carroll’s Alice, but the translator changed many characters’ names, and the nursery rhymes he parodied were Slavic, not British. Think You Know Alice In Wonderland? This Exhibition Reveals Her Dalliances With Dali And Nabokov 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z My pre-K classroom was part nursery rhyme, part precise flanking maneuver. Pre-K teachers lurch between feeling like heroes and feeling like the enemy 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z There is the nursery rhyme that might account for the title, and, there is the quote from one of the players that one of their male opponents had cried after losing to her team. Central Illinois Xpress Emerge as Unlikely Force in Fifth-Grade League 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Others were told by Mullen to play patty-cake, a children's game that involves slapping hands while reciting a nursery rhyme, the report says. Pennsylvania jail guard made inmates play 'patty cake': prosecutor 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In his latest investment outlook note, published on Thursday, Mr. Gross uses nursery rhymes as a lens for viewing global monetary policy, and he expounds at length on modern social mores. Bill Gross Muses on Nursery Rhymes and Domestic Abuse in Latest Investment Letter 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I stutter a couple of badly pronounced phrases and nursery rhymes that my grandmother taught me, which proves the point. The people who want their language to disappear 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z When I visit the children's ward there are the colourful mobiles, wall friezes and the tinny sounds of piped nursery rhymes. Suspended between life and death 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z Sure, songs like “Why Try” are filled with the nursery rhyme melodicism that seems compulsory to all obnoxious pop. ARIANA GRANDE CAN'T SING AS WELL AS YOU THINK SHE CAN 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z She was surrounded by children, not much younger than her, clapping and singing a nursery rhyme. Syrian conflict: Untold misery of child brides 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z “Ah, nursery rhymes! Intended for kids no less!” Bill Gross Muses on Nursery Rhymes and Domestic Abuse in Latest Investment Letter 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Boontling was so valued that the vocabulary and nursery rhymes were taught it in the local schools as part of the curriculum. Will America's Pot Capital Choose Wine Over Weed? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The women recited a nursery rhyme or passage as directed from 28 to 34 weeks of pregnancy. Rhymes Reveal Evidence of Learning in the Womb 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Visiting a five-year old called Lily, Ms Miller brings a game called “Five Little Monkeys”, based on a popular nursery rhyme. Choose your parents wisely 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Like that morsel of cheese that we meet at the end of a certain nursery rhyme, Germany 7, Brazil 1, stands alone. Where Does Brazil's Loss to Germany Rank Amongst All-Time Shocking Defeats? Maybe it’s time to update the old nursery rhyme: Three blind mice. Celebrate the Fourth of July by Making Your Own Fireworks 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Our anthems are like nursery rhymes; they’ve gone for the equivalent of Schubert’s fifth symphony. Every 2014 World Cup national anthem reviewed by a pop star! 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Next, the mongoose—a small carnivore rarely seen in the British Isles because it is native to Southern Asia and Africa—allegedly recited simple nursery rhymes. In England, Researchers Investigate Case of the Talking Mongoose 2014-05-01T11:49:01Z And Then There Were None was the US title for a 1939 mystery that was originally published in the UK under a different title derived from a traditional nursery rhyme. Christie anniversary dramas planned 2014-02-28T01:01:20Z Her early music was described as "nursery rhyme pop" with childish verses about dinosaurs and chocolate mousse. Charli XCX: Pop, punk and synaesthesia 2013-12-12T02:57:13Z A man whistled a nursery rhyme while briskly pushing a toddler in a stroller. City Room: Using Baseball History to Teach Children Big Lessons 2013-08-07T21:55:27Z And, yeah, it was sort of simplistic, almost like a nursery rhyme. Andrew Rekvin On Renewables, The Limits Of Information And The Dangerous Middle 2013-06-19T06:36:00Z You play as a private detective trying to piece together who killed Humpty Dumpty and mixed up all the nursery rhymes. 'Diggs Nightcrawler' Extends Wonderbook's Reach And Interactions 2013-05-22T14:15:16Z As animal and meat, lamb is vested with huge symbolism, celebrated in hymns, nursery rhymes and oil paintings. Fears over future of lamb farming as prices fall and imports soar 2013-02-03T00:04:12Z As Londoners embraced subterranean commuting, the experience made its way into literature, nursery rhymes, plays and greeting cards. Love and hate for Victorian Tube 2013-01-10T00:07:26Z Debuting in 1950, Listen With Mother consisted of stories, songs and nursery rhymes for children under the age of five. Voice of Listen With Mother dies 2013-01-04T13:52:56Z Leo Lion Band offers up 11 cartoon animals, each playing their own instrument in renditions of popular nursery rhymes. 40 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2012-12-21T12:33:39Z That wasn't so bad, but heading back down the hill, I nearly pitched forward like Jack in that unfortunate nursery rhyme. Why Grown-Ups Should Play Outside 2012-11-14T13:00:00Z Robbie Williams' seventh No 1 – his first in eight years – is helped by the recent irksome craze for adapting nursery rhymes, Ring a Ring o' Roses in this case. Sixty years of the UK charts 2012-11-13T18:48:57Z By then though, nursery rhymes like London Town in 1883 had made the service an endearing part of London life. Love and hate for Victorian Tube 2013-01-10T00:07:26Z The compilation titled Astar, Gaelic for 'journey', features Scottish songs, nursery rhymes and classical works. Classical CD for newborn babies 2012-10-11T09:38:14Z The Encyclopedia of Religion entry for moon says that the inspiration for the "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme may have come from the shapes of a boy and girl that some saw on the moon. Earthlings Look for Signs in Photos of Mars 2012-08-21T07:39:52Z One ad showed a young girl being read a nightmarish bedtime story by her father about a world blighted by climate change, while two press adverts made use of nursery rhymes. Are these the most offensive ads of all time? 2012-05-30T00:23:37Z As in old nursery rhyme we feel "The 'dish' ran away with the—cup," Sir! Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 2012-04-04T02:01:00.747Z Others, in defiance of the old nursery rhyme— ‘I must not dip, howe’er I wish, My spoon or finger in the dish;’ are perpetually helping themselves in this very straightforward and unsophisticated manner. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z It is no new thing that a nursery rhyme has been found to be the relic of an archaic poem long misunderstood or perverted. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z We have noticed that in the earlier grades most of our classic reading matter comes from Europe, the nursery rhymes, the folk-lore, fables, and myths, because the childhood of our culture periods was in Europe. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z In the nursery rhymes of the world there is nothing more childish than this "inspired" account of the creation of man and woman. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z It is remarkably rich in nursery rhymes, cookery books, gipsyana, and treatises on dentistry and fireworks, and includes a unique series of privately printed publications relating to the County of Rutland. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z The Pageant of Gethsemane The nursery rhymes, too, so far as I chanced upon them, 168 were of the universal type with Spanish variations. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z So they took hands and began to prance about uncle and niece, singing, with sudden inspiration, the nursery rhyme,— "Ring around a Rosy!" Eight Cousins Or, The Aunt-Hill 2012-01-15T03:00:12.507Z Like Jack for a boy, with which it is often coupled, as in the nursery rhyme, it is used as a homely generic name for a girl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z "Out of France and into Spain," says the old nursery rhyme; but at the eastern base of the Pyrenees one seems to have entered Spain before leaving France. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z The music of this scene has been unnaturally tranquil; the gentle Charlotte-theme and another phrase, graceful and simple as a nursery rhyme, are used with touching effect. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z But despite the cheeky nursery rhymes, Christie meant business recently as she led the group around the mall's perimeter, working in vigorous intervals at several body-toning stations. Strollers lead to the mother of all workouts 2011-10-19T23:30:06Z Perhaps it was this fact which caused my illustrious valet and factotum to write some verses parodying the nursery rhyme of “Hush-a-bye baby, upon the tree top.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z “You see as long as Untsikana was present this fellow Waishlahla dared not annoy us, but now—well, you ought to remember the good old nursery rhyme, ‘When the cat’s away the mice will play!’” The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z It does not in the least follow, and it was not the case, that he would have us make all nursery rhymes and garden sports abstrusely didactic. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z “Doesn’t it put you in mind of the nursery rhyme?” she said. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z To make a variety, it had provided a series of "Songs in Character", mostly chosen from nursery rhymes. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z With bat and with ball take your part, Or with little doll perched on your knee, You sing all the time, To a nursery rhyme, Before you go in to your tea! The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z Study co-author Kenneth Frank, an ecologist also with the Bedford Institute, compares rebuilding an ecosystem to the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme. Atlantic Cod Show Signs of Recovery Off Nova Scotia 2011-07-27T18:01:00Z From the simple sentences and the nursery rhymes of the primer, they grow into an ever-richer significance. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z But the most special attentions that nursery rhymes have received have, perhaps, taken the form of the elaborate and ingenious divisions attempted by Halliwell and others. National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z "Neither of us wanted not to eat it in case there was some truth in the nursery rhyme," she wrote in her blog. Finally - it's a girl 2011-07-09T02:54:59Z Software then translated the topographic map into audio signals, and Fabris recently found himself listening to a young woman reciting the well-known nursery rhyme. Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Record 2011-07-06T19:20:00Z It is indeed the best collection of English nursery rhymes that exists. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z She was singing the nursery rhyme which my mother had set to variations of the tinkling old-world tune: "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z She placed herself at the piano and commenced singing nursery rhymes. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z Who does all the fine things in the pretty nursery rhymes? A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Are we not reminded at once of our nursery rhyme— “Jack and Jill went up a hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after”? Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z But as a whole, the rhymes of the Venetian nursery are not interesting, save from their extreme resemblance to the nursery rhymes of England, France, or any other European country. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The commercial that subverts the “sugar and spice” nursery rhyme line “serves as a manifesto” for the campaign, Mr. Copiz said. Advertising: Watch as She Gracefully Knocks the Fuzz Off the Tennis Ball 2011-05-12T01:40:17Z Pall Mall Gazette.—“No book of nursery rhymes has charmed us so much.” The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z Thus mused Owen as he sat late one afternoon husking corn, while the pelting rain overhead recalled some old nursery rhymes which he had learned by heart when a mere child. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z Sometimes she would be so distraught at work that she would repeat unintelligible nursery rhymes. Short Story Science: Lenina Versus the Pneumococcus 2011-04-07T19:15:02.207Z The old nursery rhyme: Here we go a-piping, First in spring and then in May, tells the usual story of house-to-house visiting and expected largess. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z They intend to sing nursery rhymes and do some face painting after handing their petition in to Number 10. Mothers fighting Sure Start cuts 2011-04-02T22:58:32Z Turning to the nursery rhymes of our own country, it will tend materially to strengthen the results to which we have arrived, if we succeed in proving their antiquity in this island. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z I'd pretend not to understand and he'd get exasperated and go away, to come again some other day, that was that old nursery rhyme I used to sing or something. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z It's almost like a child's fairytale or a nursery rhyme; innocent and beautiful. Pete Tong: Soundtrack of my life 2011-03-27T00:02:02Z Signor Dal Medico did indeed publish, some 314 ten years ago, a separate collection of Venetian nursery rhymes, but his initiative has not been followed up. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z He never made us laugh at anything, but always with him and his knights and queens and heroes of the nursery rhymes.” Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z Here, for instance, is a relic in the form of a nursery rhyme, but in reality part of a political song, referring to the rebellious times of Richard the Second. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Indeed, literature may be completely unmoral, and still safely serve the purposes of amusement and of distinctively literary training—as witness the nursery rhymes, the Garden of Verses, Alice in Wonderland. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Mlle H. Do you remember the old nursery rhyme— "Pluck from the flower its leafy store— Love me little, love me more; Hearts change owners, yet combine, If mine is yours, and yours is mine." The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet 2011-02-23T03:00:30.700Z Almost as dismal as the Basque ditty is the English nursery rhyme: Bye, O my baby! Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z This verse has a jingle not unlike some of our familiar nursery rhymes, of which The king was in his counting-house counting out his money, is a fair sample. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z This personage is probably commemorated in the nursery rhyme, I had a little husband No bigger than my thumb: I put him in a pint-pot, And there I bid him drum. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The children should never see comic illustrations of their nursery rhymes and stories. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z After the nursery rhymes, the next volumes for the boy's book shelf will be collections of fables and fairy tales. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Though more of a freestyle interpretation than true representation of the nursery rhyme from which it takes its name, the Wheels on the Bus is nonetheless a superbly animated and highly interactive app. The best apps for toddlers 2011-01-24T09:00:00Z They made me think of the stories and nursery rhymes we used to read when we were children. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z I’ll take to sandals, or else follow the advice of the Countess de Noailles, and go barefoot like the old hen in the nursery rhyme. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. Does Language Influence Culture? 2010-07-24T02:24:00Z This point is without doubt the nursery rhymes. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z "Heck, he even named a horse after his doctor one time," Jack Conway said, noting his father's horse, Jack Spratt, was named for him and the character from a popular nursery rhyme. Stately Victor's owner, Jack Conway, will follow up Kentucky Derby with Democratic Senate primary 2010-04-30T04:00:00Z Two posters juxtaposed adapted extracts from popular nursery rhymes with text that warned about the dangers of global warning. Ads 'exaggerated climate change' 2010-03-17T01:51:00Z She cut herself loose with vicious snips, while I paraphrased the old nursery rhyme, "She cut her petticoats all around about." The Window at the White Cat There is one which includes the words, “Rule, Rule, Britannia!” and “God Save the Queen!” but these famous phrases serve as chorus to lighthearted fragments, e.g. nursery rhymes, such as “Little Miss Muffett.” Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History A Book of Nursery Rhymes": "The direct simplicity, dramatic imagination, and spontaneous humour of the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose will probably never be excelled by any modern verse. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Although Watts never married, he deeply loved little children, and he is the author of some of the most famous nursery rhymes in the English language. The Story of Our Hymns If some of the charms have a malignant sound, others were probably as soothing in those days as those gems are still which have survived in our inimitable nursery rhymes. The Old English Herbals It makes me feel," he said, "like the old woman in the nursery rhyme whose skirts were cut up to her knees while she was asleep. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Like the gentlewoman of the nursery rhyme, he was tempted to cry: “Lawk ’a’ mercy on me, this is none of I!” Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus I couldn't even compose a nursery rhyme if my life depended upon it. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story The mere machinery, ingenious and amusing as it is, would not entertain beyond a single reading; it can be and has often been imitated, along with the incarnated nursery rhymes and old saws. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Obediently she began to sing in her rich contralto that was like the flutes and viols of love, tempered to the inanity of the nursery rhyme. Shadows of Flames A Novel The nursery rhyme is the novel and light reading of the infant scholar. The Nursery Rhymes of England When we were going to bed the King said, "We love thee," and then followed in the language of the nursery rhyme, "Let's take a cup," said Greedy. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The sources of our nursery rhymes are many, and slowly to be traced out. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 To it were set the following lines, which remain as a nursery rhyme: Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Nothing in it, nothing in it, But the binding 'round it. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 By all means begin with the infants, and let their songs and nursery rhymes be written so as to "give them a chance." The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. The baby repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound: the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which is quite independent of the meaning of the words. Graded Poetry: Third Year His mother's cupboard was never known to be in the condition of Old Mother Hubbard's, described in the nursery rhyme. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran In Miss Eckenstein’s comparative study of nursery rhymes suggested origins are given for many of these, and an attempt made to localize certain of the customs and events. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Our first acquaintance with poetry is made through nursery rhymes. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Mr. Magee slipped into his dressing gown, seized a candle, and like the boy in the nursery rhyme with one shoe off and one shoe on, ran into the hall. Seven Keys to Baldpate Some one in the back row chanted the foolish nursery rhyme. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories This interesting Book is the result of many years research among nursery folklore of all nations, and traces the origin of nursery rhymes from the earliest times. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters In nearly all nursery rhymes it is the ludicrous and wonderful that arrests the attention and pleases. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Illustrated in color, 4to, cloth 1.50 The most popular nursery rhymes beautifully illustrated. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes This is a nursery rhyme to this day. A Danish Parsonage Also, like the old lady of the nursery rhymes whose skirts were cut off while she slept, Mamise regarded herself with incredulity and exclaimed: “Can this be I?” The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Yes, of course, mix them, that is the old nursery rhyme.” Daddy's Girl I firmly believe that it would produce grand results if a pretty illustrated edition of the principal nursery rhymes were made a text-book in infant schools. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 In a certain sense Habakkuk is to be regarded as marking a transition in Walter’s life, viz. from nursery rhymes to books which deal with big people. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland Olive, seeing her counting out her money, like the queen in the nursery rhyme, had stopped short near the door. Olive in Italy Say it simply, without effort, like a child absently murmuring a nursery rhyme. The Practice of Autosuggestion He remembered for her all the little nursery rhymes and childish songs that lay forgotten at the bottom of his brain. The Rainbow Her sides shook "like a bowlful of jelly," as the nursery rhyme used to state. Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer Various forms are found, but one of the commonest types is identical with the rhythm of the nursery rhyme, ‘The queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey.’ The Student's Companion to Latin Authors There is a nursery rhyme which runs thus:— Knife and scissors, fork and candle, Little children must not handle. Gems (?) of German Thought In the following nursery rhyme it is clear that the prevailing foot is anapestic, though several feet are iambic, and in the first two lines and the last line a single syllable makes a foot. English: Composition and Literature There are no illustrated children's books, no nursery rhymes to inspire the imagination, none of the bright and useful things so necessary to a happy childhood. History of Education We are all reminded at once of the nursery rhyme-- Moon Lore Others were originally political satires, or social pasquinades; indeed not a few nursery rhymes mask allusions to important historical incidents. Children's Books and Their Illustrators "Then please omit it; we have had enough of the fairy tale element in this trial without the introduction of any fresh fairy stories or nursery rhymes whatever." The Tale of Lal A Fantasy There is likewise a nursery rhyme or riddle: "Hoddy-doddy, All legs and no body." Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I have marched into the Nabob’s camp, and marched out again, like the King of France in the nursery rhyme. Athelstane Ford Here we are!" he cried, "quite like the baby in the nursery rhyme—'Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,' you know, eh, Mansy dear? The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks Some, in pamphlet shape, contain nursery rhymes and little stories, others are devoted to the alphabet and arithmetic. Children's Books and Their Illustrators Poor Father Humphrey now thought that his customer had indeed gone daft, and was beginning to repeat an old nursery rhyme that that name suggested. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Indeed, the scraps of magical versified spells in Märchen are entirely of the character of nursery rhymes, and are of dateless antiquity. The Nursery Rhyme Book ‘See by moonlight ’tis ’most midnight, time boat and us were home hour-and-a-half ago,’” he said, quoting from the old nursery rhyme. The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar For more than two hours Annie knelt by the child, singing nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme, while the bright beautiful eyes were fixed on her face, and the little voice said incessantly: “Sing, Annie—sing.” A World of Girls The Story of a School He began intoning the nursery rhyme, and Patty and Philip strolled through the hall, swinging the bucket between them, and acting like two country children going for water. Patty's Social Season For several hundred years the nursery rhymes of "Mother Goose" have delighted children with their melody, humor, and imagery. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Thus our old nursery rhymes are smooth stones from the brook of time, worn round by constant friction of tongues long silent. The Nursery Rhyme Book One may guess, however, that others have descended rapidly into nursery rhymes, as in the case of one, noted in J. O. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series She went through the old nursery rhyme once—twice. A World of Girls The Story of a School All these faint, vague noises bewildered little Jack, who began to sing a nursery rhyme with which his mother formerly rocked him to sleep. Jack 1877 The last two stanzas bear evidence of a more sophisticated origin than that of real nursery rhymes. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists put nursery rhymes in the mouths of characters; a few jingles creep into the Miscellanies, such as "The Pills to purge Melancholy." The Nursery Rhyme Book "Mary had a little lamb," says the nursery rhyme. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back The child of two years of age will give his attention to the rhythm of the nursery rhyme when the prose story will not interest him. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature The people who scorn the elementary literature of nursery rhymes, fairy tales and fables are the immature boys of thirteen or fourteen years to whom everything juvenile seems beneath their dignity and newly acquired independence. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is a pleasant and not improbable theory that this first collection of nursery rhymes, upon which later ones were built, was the work of Oliver Goldsmith, who was for some years in Newbery's employ. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Above all things they love dancing, and their fathers and grandfathers play the fiddle for them for many an hour of a winter’s evening, while the mothers sing nursery rhymes to the smaller children. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Do you know the nursery rhyme about the cuckoo? Harry's Ladder to Learning Not all the favorites among the nursery rhymes are here, only those that first helped to make the fame of the fictitious but no less worthy patron of childhood. Mother Goose The Original Volland Edition Some of the facts that may be brought out at various times are the following: I. There is a hidden significance in some of the nursery rhymes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Thus our old nursery rhymes," says Andrew Lang, "are smooth stones from the book of time, worn round by constant friction of tongues long silent. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The mystery, therefore, remained unpenetrated; and public curiosity was left to console itself with the nursery rhyme:— "On Tintock tap there is a mist, And in the mist there is a kist." Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Writing on the subject of nursery rhymes more than half a century ago, the late Dr. Robert Chambers expressed regret because, as he said, "Nothing had of late been revolutionised so much as the nursery." Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk In 1835 Mr. Gowler, who wrote extensively on the archæology of English phrases and nursery rhymes, ingeniously attempted to claim whole songs and tales, giving side by side the Saxon and the English versions. A History of Nursery Rhymes There is really a practical value, too, in a knowledge of the nursery rhymes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Book titles are in italics; selection titles and index topics in roman type; names of authors in capitals and small capitals; and first lines of nursery rhymes within quotation marks. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes What is the meaning," asked Mary, "of the nursery rhyme about the lady-bird? Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children One sings a solo—a verse of some nursery rhyme. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Even their nursery rhymes are distinctive, full of religious and national sentiment, and may be counted on the fingers of one hand. A History of Nursery Rhymes Allusions to them are found in all literature and many a sentence is unintelligible to him who does not recognize the nursery rhyme alluded to. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide These and numerous like facts serve only to impress us with the long and honorable history of the nursery rhyme. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes "Sure," said Harrison, "It's a Martian nursery rhyme." A Martian Odyssey When we look back at Boer history, we find the details of annexation and restoration repeating themselves with the consistency of the chorus of a nursery rhyme. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Mr. Halliwell also believes that of British nursery rhymes it is the earliest extant. A History of Nursery Rhymes The first sixty pages of this volume are given over to the best known of the old nursery rhymes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The ideal verse for the first grade is nursery rhymes, which may be chosen from the first 135 selections of this book. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes It began to be impressed on my mind with force that I was a good deal like the little old woman of the nursery rhyme. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers The hymns proved to be nursery rhymes of salvation set to what may be described as lightly spinning dicky-bird music. A Circuit Rider's Wife Now for the interpretation—for it is a historical and a prophetic nursery rhyme. A History of Nursery Rhymes In the present age, what child does not yield to the magic rhythm and the compelling lilt of the old nursery rhymes! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is certain that many nursery rhymes are both widespread geographically in distribution and of great antiquity. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes If you would look over the poems in these volumes, beginning even with the nursery rhymes, it would not take you long to become familiar with all the different forms. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 She laughed, and gave them a group of old nursery rhymes. Mistress Anne One child sings a solo—a verse of some nursery rhyme. A History of Nursery Rhymes As literature develops from the simple nursery rhyme and the brief, abrupt fable to the fairy tale with its illusive beauty, so the pictures should advance in a parallel and a closely related manner. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide What is the secret of the nursery rhyme's appeal to children? Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes "It's an old nursery rhyme, I believe," the artist went on, still half in his perplexity. Elsie Marley, Honey Was there no other lady in England beside That a nursery rhyme could take for a ride? Last Poems The nursery rhyme about "Taffy was a Welshman; Taffy was a thief," because familiar, had not led us to hold any unduly inflated estimate of the Welsh character. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell In the beginning of the first volume are the nursery rhymes which children have enjoyed for ages, which are read, or far better told, to infants who rejoice in the pictures. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide For many interesting facts and suggestions on rhythm in nursery rhymes consult Charles H. Sears, "Studies in Rhythm," Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes There was no time like the present, and he at once went toward Diana's, "clothed all in leather," like the old man in the nursery rhyme. Glory of Youth The nursery rhyme Tom Thumb, His Life and Death, 1630, and the augmented History of Tom Thumb, c. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Almost involuntarily Martin began to hum the popular nursery rhyme— “Hushy ba, baby, on the tree top; When the wind blows the cradle will rock.” Martin Rattler Between the nursery rhymes and the literature that follows is quite a gap, intentionally left by the editor. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Did I sing a nursery rhyme to a tune all one note? Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life It was a good idea, and after some consideration—for we had most of us forgotten our nursery rhymes—we fixed upon the tragical history of “Jack and Jill;” and decided to deal with it. Boycotted And Other Stories They never would parody any nursery rhyme in his honour. The Masques of Ottawa Mother Goose, according to a new exploded story, was a native of Boston, and the author of the nursery rhymes that bear her name. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The simplest and most universal form of literature is found in the catchy little nursery rhymes which the children of the nation learn at their cradles from the lips of their elders. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide I write it too,” said Peggy; “only mine is just nursery rhymes to amuse Alice, about bees and hens and things.” Peggy in Her Blue Frock I had also read the nursery rhymes carefully, and most of the harrowing stories of history and fiction, particularly the latter. Boycotted And Other Stories Many of the old stories, quaint jingles and nursery rhymes we have to-day are due to him. The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship Many of the old stories, quaint jingles and nursery rhymes we have today are due to him. A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods Children love the nursery rhymes largely because they have heard them and have caught the sound and rhythm more than the meaning. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, which records a piece of Scottish news of no importance whatever, has become an English nursery rhyme. Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Eventually Stray said, why not take a simple nursery rhyme and work upon it, just as musicians take some simple melody as the theme of their great compositions? Boycotted And Other Stories In the first place, we may note the intense auto-suggestion of sleep already pointed out, under the stimulus of repeated nursery rhymes or other regular devices regularly resorted to in putting the child asleep. The Story of the Mind Cynthia knew her "Pilgrim's Progress" as many children know their nursery rhymes. A Son of the Hills To this class belong all those nursery rhymes, lyrics, classic myths, legends and so on to which allusion is constantly made and which are themselves the legal tender of polite and cultured conversation. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Nursery Rhymes.—Can you or any of your correspondents tell me where I shall find an account of the origin of our common nursery rhymes? Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Irene scribbled away delightedly, but Lorna, who had almost forgotten the nursery rhymes of her childhood, was in much mystification, and only filled in a few of the vacant spaces. The Jolliest School of All Our most learned modern works are as children's nursery rhymes beside such a writing as the Egyptian Ritual of the Dead! Brood of the Witch-Queen For example, words from nursery rhymes were excluded, unless they were independently and separately used in the same way with words of daily and common use. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. The contents of the books have been graded from the nursery rhymes in the first volume to the rather difficult selections in the ninth volume. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide This explains the nursery rhyme which you have no doubt often heard— "The lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown; The lion whipped the unicorn all around the town." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 A delicate jelly is made from the red Currant at Bas-le-duc; and a well-known nursery rhyme tells of the tempting qualities of "cherry pie, and currant wine." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure It was but a simple nursery rhyme, but Neddy put his soul into it, for he was but a child himself in spite of his tall stature and grizzled locks. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead There is nothing about it in the nursery rhymes or stories, no one goes out to listen to it, children are not taught to recognise it, and grown-up persons are often quite unaware of it. Nature Near London Those of us who were brought up on English nursery rhymes early loved the fiddle. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music "May I go with you——" "That sounds," cried Bridget gaily, "like the beginning of a nursery rhyme." Enter Bridget "Little Jack Horner," says the familiar nursery rhyme, "sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he pulled out a plum, and said 'What a good boy am I.'" Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The best thing to do on such occasions is to obey the nursery rhyme, and "open your mouth and shut your eyes." Leaves from a Field Note-Book The difference," Mary told him, smiling, "between your cooking and Susan Jenks' is the difference between an epic—and a nursery rhyme. Contrary Mary The old nursery rhyme of the old woman who had her petticoats clipped and was not sure of herself, has a truth in it which dates from the beginning of things. The Debtor A Novel It derived its name from King Cole, the "merry old soul" of the familiar nursery rhyme. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland Some accounts of child life in Syria and specimens of Oriental stories and nursery rhymes have been gathered into a "Children's Chapter." The Women of the Arabs Repeat a nursery rhyme, no matter what, in a humdrum recitative; he is sober, and very attentive. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse But it was not the old nursery rhyme. Contrary Mary "The picture was just drawn that way to fit the old nursery rhyme about the elephant's jumping up to the sky." The Circus Comes to Town We passed through Banbury, whose cross, famous in nursery rhyme, is only modern. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland This young woman Laia, who sits here, has repeated for me not less than a hundred and twenty 326of these nursery rhymes, songs for weddings, funeral wails, etc. The Women of the Arabs The twin children of the moon were Mashu and Mashtu, a brother and sister, like the lunar girl and boy of Teutonic mythology immortalized in nursery rhymes as Jack and Jill. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Hence the defence of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library An old English nursery rhyme makes use of this association, only in a manner precisely the reverse of that which appears now and then in numeral terms. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Was it morning spirits impelling him to address Mrs. Fisher in the terms of a nursery rhyme? The Enchanted April Folk-songs, such as those edited by Cecil Sharp and others, and, for the very little ones, traditional nursery rhymes and game songs are the best. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students As the old nursery rhyme has it— 'One foot up and one foot down, That's the way to London town.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Verse quotations may be taken from a well-known poem, a popular song, a nursery rhyme, or even doggerel verse. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers The numeral scale must be complete before the nursery rhyme can be manufactured. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development They were eyes that would haunt his sleep that night like the face of the drowned man in the nursery rhyme. One Man in His Time Her earliest recollections were those of the old nursery rhymes, with which Agnes had not failed to store her memory. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 That hesitation should manifest itself amid such a pageantry of personality reminded Adams of the beggars in the old nursery rhyme who had come to town sporting velvet gowns. The Wheel of Life Few, however, are now aware that the well-known Irish nursery rhymes have so truly historical a foundation:— 'Ho! brother Teig, what is your story?' The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times |
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