Cover image for Heavy words lightly thrown : the reason behind the rhyme / Chris Roberts.
Title:
Heavy words lightly thrown : the reason behind the rhyme / Chris Roberts.
ISBN:
9781592401307
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Gotham Books, [2005]

©2005
Physical Description:
xx, 202 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note:
Originally published: Great Britain: Granta Books, 2004.
Contents:
Little Jack Horner a squatter? : Little Jack Horner -- Taking divinity classes? : Jack be nimble -- It's falling down : London bridge -- Who let them out? : Hark, hark, the dogs do bark -- Fancy a rub-a-dub, then, matey? " Rub-a-dub-dub -- Saucy geese? : Goosie, goosie, gander -- Piecing together the story : Humpty-dumpty -- Who ate all the pie? : Sing a song of sixpence -- Bloody Mary, anyone? / Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- A short tale? : Three blind mice -- A child's guide to taxation : Baa, baa black sheep -- So good they associated it twice : Grand old Duke of York -- Relationship rhymes : A frog would a -wooing go -- Disaster warning? / Ladybird, ladybird -- A swift tour of London? : Oranges and lemons -- Handbags at ten paces? : Tweedledum and tweedledee -- I coulda been a pretender : William and Mary, George and Anne -- Doesn't sweat much, for a fat lad : Georgey Porgy -- A few stops beyond barking? : As I was walking o'er little moorfields -- By 'eck pet! : Elsie Marley is grown so fine -- American graffiti : Yankee doodle -- Dial 999 : London's burning -- A quiet word about lullabies : Baby love, my baby love -- Paved with gold? : Turn again, Whittington -- Cat in well's chance? : Ding dong bell -- Push, push, in the bush : Here we go round the mulberry bush -- A proper paddy? : This old man -- Penny for them? : Remember, remember -- Pigs in wigs : Animals in nursery rhymes -- Where have all the sparrows gone? : Who killed cock robin? -- Using or losing your head? : Little boy blue -- Want some Jack and Jills? : Jack and Jill -- Land of my fathers : Taffy was a Welshman -- One everyone knows ... : Ring-a-ring o'roses -- It's the getting there that counts : Ride a cock horse to Banbury cross -- Kitty Fisher, now she's a sort : Lucy locket -- Would you Adam & Eve it? : Pop goes the weasel -- The odd couple : Jack Spratt -- Wages of sin? : See saw, Marjorie Daw -- Pipe and slippers : Old King Cole was a merry old soul.
OCLC Number:
ocm57044023
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