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This book suits parents, grandparents, teachers of young readers and folklore lovers, and anyone curious where Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill and Old Mother Hubbard came from.
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What does a king want with four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie? Why does a Quaker insist that the cow must jump under the moon, not over it? These puzzles sit inside one small book, The Nursery Rhymes of England, gathered by James Orchard Halliwell.
It holds hundreds of rhymes, jingles, riddles, games and songs that English children have chanted for generations. Halliwell sorted them into eighteen classes and added notes naming the old manuscripts, plays and song books where lines first appear. His preface argues that absurdity is just what draws the very young. You get the shape of the whole collection, class by class, and the stories behind the best-known rhymes.
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- 1Kings and queens march through the first rhymesFree
- 2Letters and numbers arrive wrapped in song
- 3Small tales travel in verse and in prose
- 4Sayings and school rhymes make facts easy to keep
- 5Songs tell small stories with a tune
- 6Riddles and charms ask for guessing and spell-making
- 7Old folk and games set the rhymes in motion
- 8Nonsense and lullabies guard the hours of sleep
- 9Courtship, animals and seasons fill the middle of the book
- 10Chains, local verses and relics round out the book
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Kings and queens march through the first rhymes
The first class is called Historical, and it packs English rulers into a few lines each. Halliwell opens with Old King Cole, a merry old soul who calls for his pipe, his bowl and his three fiddlers. A note says old chroniclers placed a King Cole in Britain in the third century.
Other rhymes follow the crown through the centuries. King Arthur makes a bag pudding and stuffs it with plums. Robin Hood waits in the green wood while Little John goes to town. The mood grows darker with the Gunpowder Plot, and with a man at Charing Cross who learns that a black horse carries King Charles the First.
The notes matter as much as the verses. Halliwell cites manuscripts in the British Museum and admits when a reference is lost. A child hears a bouncy tune, yet the words keep a trace of real people. Nursery rhymes carry small pieces of English history in a form a child can sing.
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About 3 h 10 min to read.Questions about Rimas infantiles de Inglaterra
Who collected The Nursery Rhymes of England?
James Orchard Halliwell, later known as Halliwell-Phillipps, collected them. He gathered them from nearly every county in England, and the collection carries illustrations by W. B. Scott and a preface to the fifth edition.
Which famous rhymes are in the book?
Among them are Old King Cole, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo-peep, Three Blind Mice, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Hey Diddle Diddle, London Bridge, Old Mother Hubbard and The House That Jack Built.
Where does Humpty Dumpty appear in this collection?
Humpty Dumpty appears in the Riddles class, where Halliwell gives the answer as an egg. Two versions are printed: forty doctors and forty wrights fail in one, and a hundred and twenty men fail in the other.
Cite this edition
The Nursery Rhymes of England. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nursery-rhymes-of-england.
The nursery rhymes of England. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nursery-rhymes-of-england
The Nursery Rhymes of England. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nursery-rhymes-of-england.
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