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A cow jumps over the moon, a dish runs away with a spoon, and every rhyme invites you to join in.
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes gathers short traditional verses made for sharing aloud. Little Miss Muffet meets an unwelcome spider. Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall. A boy finds a plum. These small dramas sit beside games for hands and feet, with sounds that invite you to chant, sing and remember.
In Hey Diddle Diddle, a cat plays the fiddle and a little dog laughs. Elsewhere, rhyme brings words like hill and Jill together with a satisfying click. No single author stands behind these verses. Their pleasures lie in lively sounds, tiny scenes and nonsense that makes animals and household objects behave in unexpected ways.
What you’ll discover
- Small dramas, vivid characters Meet Little Miss Muffet and discover how a few lines hold a whole incident.
- A world turned upside down Follow animals and household objects into nonsense where a dish runs away with a spoon.
- Words that invite movement Find rhymes that turn hands and feet into part of the fun.
- The pleasure of sound Enjoy the rhythm and rhyme that make these short verses so easy to remember.
- Verses to share aloud Enjoy familiar words that invite you to chant, sing and join in.
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Perfect for parents and grandparents who sing to little ones, teachers who love word play, and anyone who wants to hear the rhymes of childhood again, with their jokes, tunes and odd characters.
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- A gathering of rhymes in no fixed order
- Rhymes turn play, counting and letters into games
- Animals and birds act out human habits
- Fools and mishaps invite laughter
- Chains and riddles reward a careful ear
- Lullabies and gentle lessons close the day
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Comptines de Mère l’Oie
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A frog goes courting, a dog smokes a pipe and a cow jumps over the moon in this book of rhymes.
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What happens when a dog dances while his owner shops, or a frog sets off to court a bride? You find out in Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, a gathering of nursery verses.
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A gathering of rhymes in no fixed order
The book is a mixed bag of short verses, tales in rhyme and songs, set down with no strict plan. It opens with Old Mother Goose, who rides through the air on a gander, and her son Jack, who buys a goose that lays a golden egg. After that the pages jump from subject to subject, which suits a book made for dipping into.
Humpty Dumpty sits on his wall, and Jack Horner sits with his Christmas pie. Most rhymes run only four to eight lines, and a handful stretch into small stories with a beginning and an end.
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What is Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes about?
It is a collection of short traditional verses for children. It includes lullabies, counting rhymes, alphabets, riddles, animal stories and comic tales, such as Humpty Dumpty, Old Mother Hubbard, Simple Simon and Jack and Jill.
Who was Mother Goose?
Mother Goose appears as a character in the opening rhyme. She rides through the air on a gander, and her son Jack buys a goose.
Who wrote the nursery rhymes in this book?
The collection does not name a writer for most of its rhymes. The Walrus and the Carpenter is credited to Lewis Carroll.
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