In which children's book did Humpty Dumpty first appear
"for his readership; the poem is, after all, part of a dream. In later writings he discussed some of his lexicon, commenting that he did not know the specific meanings or sources of some of the words; the linguistic ambiguity and uncertainty throughout both the book and the poem may largely be the point. In ""Through the Looking-Glass"", the character of Humpty Dumpty, in response to Alice's request, explains to her the non-sense words from the first stanza of the poem; however, Carroll's personal commentary on several of the words differ from Humpty's. For example, following the poem, a ""rath"""
"Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as a personified egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"". Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. The character of Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States by actor George L. Fox (1825–77)."
"Humpty Dumpty (comics) Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character from DC Comics. Unlike many of Batman's enemies, he is not deliberately malevolent. Humpty Dumpty first appeared in the 2003 graphic novel """" and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook. Humphry Dumpler is a hulking man with an egg-shaped head who speaks in rhyme and has a compulsive desire to ""repair"" that which he considers to be broken. He is shown in flashback to have been the victim of inexplicable, almost supernaturally bad luck almost since birth, illustrated by countless tragedies through his life. Eventually, he became determined to"
"to put him together again is representative of this principle, as it would be highly unlikely (though not impossible) to return him to his earlier state of lower entropy, as the entropy of an isolated system never decreases. Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as a personified egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William"
"used Humpty Dumpty as one victim of a serial fairy-tale character murderer in ""The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse"" (2002). Jasper Fforde included Humpty Dumpty in his novels ""The Well of Lost Plots"" (2003) and ""The Big Over Easy"" (2005), which use him respectively as a ringleader of dissatisfied nursery rhyme characters threatening to strike and as the victim of a murder. Humpty Dumpty appears as a lead villain in the DreamWorks animation ""Puss in Boots"" (2011). The 1925 song ""I'm Sitting on Top of the World"", most notably sung by Dean Martin, Doris Day and Bobby Darin, mentions"
"Humpty Dumpty (magazine) Humpty Dumpty is a bimonthly American magazine for children 2 to 6 years old that takes its title from the nursery rhyme of the same name. The magazine features short stories, poems, nonfiction articles, games, comics, recipes, crafts, and more. Having been continuously produced for more than 65 years, it is one of the oldest American magazines for kids. As part of the Children’s Better Health Institute—a division of the Saturday Evening Post Society Inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization—""Humpty Dumpty""’s mission is to promote the healthy physical, educational, creative, social, and emotional growth of children"
"Humpty Dumpty (pinball) Humpty Dumpty is a historically important pinball machine released by Gottlieb on October 25, 1947. Named after Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme character, it is the first pinball machine to include flippers — invented by Harry Mabs — distinguishing it from earlier bagatelle game machines. ""Humpty Dumpty"" had six of these flippers, referred to as ""flipper bumpers"" by the company. However, unlike modern pinball tables, they faced outward instead of inward and were not placed at the bottom of the table near the main outhole. Like all early pinball tables, ""Humpty Dumpty"" was constructed with wood and"
"edits ""Humpty Dumpty"" under the direction of Steven Slon. ""Humpty Dumpty"" is one of two children's publications in the U.S. Kids family of magazines, which are published by the Children’s Better Health Institute, a division of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. Its sister publication under the U.S. Kids banner is ""Jack and Jill"" (for children ages 6 to 12). Humpty Dumpty (magazine) Humpty Dumpty is a bimonthly American magazine for children 2 to 6 years old that takes its title from the nursery rhyme of the same name. The magazine features short stories, poems, nonfiction articles, games, comics, recipes,"
"in a format that is engaging, stimulating, and entertaining for children ages 2 to 6. ""Humpty Dumpty"" Magazine (then called ""Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine"") was launched by George J. Hecht and ""Parents"" magazine in October 1952. Originally, it was a sister publication to ""Children's Digest"", aimed at a younger audience than the latter publication. The first editor of ""Humpty Dumpty"" was Harold Schwartz. In January 1980, both ""Humpty Dumpty"" and ""Children’s Digest"" came under the ownership of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. When ""Children's Digest"" was merged with ""Jack and Jill"" in 2009, ""Humpty Dumpty"" was continued. Today, Jennifer Burnham"
"a single quatrain with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"" (London, 1870), as outlined below: <score vorbis=""1""> \new Staff « \clef treble \key bes \major { %\new Lyrics \lyricmode { » </score> The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's ""Juvenile Amusements"" in 1797 with the lyrics: <poem>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall."
"The Wacky World of Mother Goose The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) is an animated feature film made by Rankin/Bass, written by Romeo Muller and directed by Jules Bass based on Charles Perrault's stories and nursery rhymes. It features Humpty Dumpty, the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, and the Crooked Man (the villain). Mother Goose is voiced by Margaret Rutherford. In the land of Old King Cole: Jack and Jill, Simple Simon, Georgie Porgie, Humpty Dumpty, and the others are worried when Mother Goose has to visit her sister who lives beyond the Moon. Meanwhile, Count Walktwist"
"Children's Digest Children's Digest (originally ""The Children's Digest"") was a children's magazine published from Oct. 1950 to May/June 2009, after which it was merged with ""Jack and Jill"" from the same publisher. It was aimed at children of ages 8 through 12, with a special focus on children's health and well-being. ""Humpty Dumpty Magazine"" is a sister publication of similar format aimed at a younger audience, which continues in publication. ""Children's Digest"" was originally published by George J. Hecht and Parents Magazine Press in the digest size implied by its name. The journal was sold to The Saturday Evening Post"
"""crabs"" and ""feathers"". Chapter Six – Humpty Dumpty: After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in ""Jabberwocky"". In the process, he introduces Alice to the concept of portmanteau words, before his inevitable fall. Chapter Seven – The Lion and the Unicorn: """"All the king's horses and all the king's men"""" come to Humpty Dumpty's assistance, and are accompanied by the White King, along with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out a nursery rhyme by fighting"
"Humpty Dumpty in Oakland Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick. Originally completed in 1960, but rejected by prior publishers, this work was posthumously published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in 1986. An American edition was published by Tor Books in 2007. In 1960, 58-year-old Jim Fergesson decides to sell his Oakland-based auto repair business and retire. This threatens to greatly inconvenience his business tenant, used car salesman Al Miller, who rents a lot from Fergesson to sell his battered but superficially reconditioned old jalopies. Chris Harmon, an entrepreneur, advises Fergesson"
"album inspired by Lewis Carroll called ""The Mad Hatter"", 1978). In the Dolly Parton song ""Starting Over Again"", it's all the king's horses and all the king's men who can't put the divorced couple back together again. In an extra verse in one version of ABBA's ""On and On and On"", Humpty Dumpty is mentioned as being afraid of falling off the wall. The Australian children’s television programme Play School, in the song ""Oomba Baroomba"", says: <poem>Humpty Dumpty sat up in bed, Eating yellow bananas. Where do you think he put the skins? Down his striped pyjamas!</poem> TurboTax, a U.S."
"their places in the air with his thumb) ""nose in the middle, mouth under. It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be ""some"" help."" Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character. American actor George L. Fox (1825–77) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth-century stage productions of pantomime versions, music, and rhyme. The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that would be difficult to reconstruct once"
"included from 1966 to 1979 monthly installments of ""The Adventures of Tintin"". These serializations greatly increased Tintin’s popularity in the United States. At this time ""Children's Digest"" had a circulation of around 700,000 copies monthly. Children's Digest Children's Digest (originally ""The Children's Digest"") was a children's magazine published from Oct. 1950 to May/June 2009, after which it was merged with ""Jack and Jill"" from the same publisher. It was aimed at children of ages 8 through 12, with a special focus on children's health and well-being. ""Humpty Dumpty Magazine"" is a sister publication of similar format aimed at a younger"
"Gertrude Crampton Gertrude Crampton (June 26, 1909 – June 25, 1996) was an author of children's books, including ""Tootle"" (1945) and ""Scuffy the Tugboat"" (1946). Both ""Tootle"" and ""Scuffy"" were published in the popular Little Golden Books series of Simon & Schuster. As of 2001, ""Tootle"" was the all-time third best-selling hardback children's book in English; ""Scuffy"" was eighth. She also wrote ""The Large and Growly Bear"", published in the Golden Beginning Reader series in 1961, and illustrated by John P. Miller. Born June 26, 1909 in New York, she received her teaching credentials from the University of Michigan, Ann"
"Humpty Dumpty at the age of 16. A caricature of her in the show is held in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Bowman understudied West End musical star Paula Hendrix in The Boys from Syracuse at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1963, and replaced her for one performance. In 1966 she played Eliza Doolittle in the H. M. Tennant touring production of My Fair Lady, opposite Tony Britton as Henry Higgins, winning ""creditable"" reviews. Bowman also starred in theatrical shows with several comedians such as Terry Scott and Jimmy Logan during the 1960s, as"
"dummy book in imitation of ""Little Black Sambo"", and privately published her work in December 1901 after a series of publishers' rejections. Frederick Warne & Co. had rejected the tale but, eager to compete in the burgeoning and lucrative small format children's book market, reconsidered and accepted the ""bunny book"" (as the firm called it) following the endorsement of their prominent children's book artist L. Leslie Brooke. Potter agreed to colour her pen and ink illustrations for the trade edition, and chose the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours. On 2 October 1902 ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"""
"(Only later does David learn that he possesses a magic wishing button, which enables and empowers the action of the story.) David nicknames the talking camel Humpty Bumpty; together the boy and camel embark on a whirlwind tour of strange lands, including Somewhere, Dwindlebury, and the flying island of Kapurta (which is the enchanted Island of the title). They meet the range of strange characters typical of Oz literature — among them, Water Lily, Queen Else of Somewhere, and a dragon named Dismocolese. Eventually the boy and camel make their way to the Emerald City in time for a birthday"
"Arbor. Gertrude Crampton Gertrude Crampton (June 26, 1909 – June 25, 1996) was an author of children's books, including ""Tootle"" (1945) and ""Scuffy the Tugboat"" (1946). Both ""Tootle"" and ""Scuffy"" were published in the popular Little Golden Books series of Simon & Schuster. As of 2001, ""Tootle"" was the all-time third best-selling hardback children's book in English; ""Scuffy"" was eighth. She also wrote ""The Large and Growly Bear"", published in the Golden Beginning Reader series in 1961, and illustrated by John P. Miller. Born June 26, 1909 in New York, she received her teaching credentials from the University of Michigan,"
"shell. Professor David Daube suggested in ""The Oxford Magazine"" of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a ""tortoise"" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. The theory was part of an anonymous series of articles on the origin of nursery rhymes and was widely acclaimed in academia, but it was derided by others as ""ingenuity for"
"""Humpty Dumpty"" was designed for 3 to 5 year olds. Features included the annual U.S. Kids Cover Contest, which has awarded more than $25,000 for school art programs. Each issue of ""Turtle"" also included age-appropriate games, puzzles and interactive activities that encouraged problem-solving and critical thinking. Notable contributors included Charles Ghigna, poet and author Eileen Spinelli, comic book writer Justin Gray and author/illustrator Valeri Gorbachev. Turtle (magazine) Turtle was a bi-monthly American magazine for children ages 2 to 5. It existed between 1979 and 2014, and featured short stories, poems, games, comics, rebuses, recipes, crafts, and more. It was headquartered"
"in 1995 and Nancy S. Axelrad in 1996. Children’s author Terry Webb Harshman took the editorial reins in 1997 and continued under the direction of Steven Slon. ""Turtle"" was one of three children’s publications in the U.S. Kids family of magazines, published by the Children’s Better Health Institute, a division of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. Its sister publications under the U.S. Kids banner were ""Humpty Dumpty Magazine"" (for children ages 5 to 7) and ""Jack and Jill"" (for children ages 7 to 12). As of the March/April 2014 issue ""Turtle"" merged with ""Humpty Dumpty"". Effective with that issue"
"You Read to Me, I'll Read to You You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together is the third book in the ""You Read to Me, I'll Read to You"" series. It is written by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Michael Emberley. The book is retellings of nursery rhymes. It has retellings such as Humpty Dumpty chatting with his doctor and Little Miss Muffet explaining 'curds and whey' to the spider. Other rhymes include ""Old Mother Hubbard"", ""Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater"", ""Simple Simon"", and ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"". It was reviewed"
"if he killed the children. Humpty says he is innocent, and explains that he found them “near the river” as they floated up to him. Sad the children had died so close to Christmas, Humpty had tried to give them one last holiday. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Humpty Dumpty is first seen as an inmate at Arkham Asylum at the same time that Resurrection Man is incarcerated there. Humpty Dumpty has a knack of disassembling and reassembling different items. Humpty Dumpty (comics) Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character from DC Comics."
"book was the first novel Fforde wrote, however, he failed in its publication. It was massively re-written following the success of the Thursday Next novels. A follow-up, entitled ""The Fourth Bear"", was published in July 2006. The book is satirical, based on many nursery rhymes, fables, and the like. The main character Jack Spratt is based on Jack Sprat, and the secondary character is Mary Mary, both from nursery rhymes. They investigate events such as the Three Little Pigs and Humpty Dumpty. People from such sources are known in the book as PDRs, ""persons of dubious reality"". The book begins"
"the royalties they receive for their poems, like Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Old King Cole. While on their quest to find the murderer, several PPPs are killed. Humpty Dumpty is boiled with a lens above his pool, Bill Winkie – cheated out of the rights to his nursery rhyme by the writer, but a natural detective – simply vanishes while investigating the case, Little Boy Blue is pierced with his crook – the crook impaling him in the rear and exiting through his mouth, Jack Spratt is fried in his ex-wife's diner, Little Tommy"
"a peak of popularity during the 1860s and 70's. These shows placed figures from Mother Goose stories in wildly varied settings, always finding an excuse to transform them into the clown characters of traditional commedia dell'arte (Harlequin, Columbina, etc.). Popular songs were loosely inserted whenever the audience needed a breather. Lavish sets and athletic clowning were expected, along with elaborate ballets. By far the most popular of these pantomimes was Fox's Humpty Dumpty. The plot had young Humpty and his playmates turn into harlequinade characters and romp through a candy store, an enchanted garden and Manhattan's costly new City Hall."
"featured lavish sets and big budgets. The first of the Drury Lane pantomimes in which Little Tich appeared was ""Humpty Dumpty"" in 1891 which also starred Drury Lane regulars Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell. As well as the title role, Little Tich also played the minor part of the Yellow Dwarf in the harlequinade. It was during the latter characterisation that he revived his Big-Boot Dance, which was a hit with audiences. The following Christmas, he equalled this success with his second pantomime ""Little Bo-Peep"" in which he played the part of ""Hop of my Thumb"". As well"
"movies and television shows also featuring MGM's other famous cartoon stars, Tom and Jerry. In the cartoon ""Northwest Hounded Police"", Droopy's last name was given as ""McPoodle"". In ""The Chump Champ"", it was given as ""Poodle"". Nevertheless, Droopy is generally understood to be a basset hound. Droopy first appeared in the MGM cartoon ""Dumb-Hounded"", released by MGM on March 20, 1943. Droopy's first scene is when he saunters into view, looks at the audience, and declares, ""Hello, all you happy people ... you know what? I'm the hero."" In the cartoon, Droopy is tracking an escaped convict and is always"
"his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself"". J. R. R. Tolkien, in his poem ""Errantry"", also used the name Dumbledor, but for a large bee-like creature. Among the many books for younger children are ""Bumble the Bee"" by Yvon Douran and Tony Neal (2014); ""Bertie Bumble Bee"" by K. I. Al-Ghani (2012); ""Ben the Bumble Bee: How do bees make honey?"" by Romessa Awadalla (2015); ""Bumble Bee Bob Has a Big Butt"" by Papa Campbell (2012); ""Buzz, Buzz, Buzz! Went Bumble-bee"" by Colin West (1997); ""Bumble Bee"" by Margaret Wise Brown (2000); ""How the"