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Resumen de Libro de rimas infantiles
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For parents and grandparents who love singing to little ones, and for anyone curious about folklore, old games, riddles and the odd bits of history tucked inside the rhymes of childhood.
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What do a king with three fiddlers, four and twenty blackbirds and a mouse on a clock have in common? They all live in The Nursery Rhyme Book, gathered and introduced by Andrew Lang. You get the best-loved rhymes, the real history hiding in some of them, and the games, riddles and charms that children once used. First, hear how Lang remembers meeting these verses himself.
En este resumen
- 1Lang begins with his own childhood memoryFree
- 2Some rhymes hide real kings and battles
- 3Odd characters have stories of their own
- 4Rhymes are made for bouncing, counting and games
- 5Riddles, charms and sayings teach and protect
- 6Chains, tales and creatures fill the middle pages
- 7Lang closes by tracing where rhymes come from
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Lang begins with his own childhood memory
Andrew Lang opens the book with a personal memory, not a rule. Reading old nursery rhymes, he says, brings back lost scenes from a man's own childhood. The rhymes work like a key to a half-forgotten room.
He recalls the floppy picture books of long ago and a wooden box that held his first library. Once he was shut in a closet as a punishment, and his jailers found him happy on top of the box, reading. He knew the tale of Cock Robin by heart before he could read, and he learned his letters by picking them out of familiar words.
The point is that these verses teach and comfort at the same time. Lang adds that grandmothers have sung them to grandchildren for many centuries, and that nobody knows which poets made them. He gives a Scottish riding song as an example, where a smooth ride turns into a rough trot. Songs like that, he says, are often never printed, yet never forgotten. That sets the tone for the whole collection: rhymes are meant to be sung, bounced and shared.
That’s 1 of 7 key points.
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Questions about Libro de rimas infantiles
Who was Charley in the nursery rhyme?
Lang identifies Charley as a Prince of Wales living in exile, fighting to recover the crown for his father. He describes the rhyme about ale, wine and a pretty girl as a parody of a song by his supporters.
Are nursery rhymes based on real history?
Some are. Lang links rhymes to King Arthur, Charles the First, the Prince of Orange and Georgey Porgey. He also warns that songbook history is not always trustworthy, so each rhyme is best enjoyed as both song and story.