"Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in December 1922. The book is a compilation of traditional nursery rhymes such as ""Goosey Goosey Gander"", ""This Little Piggy"" and ""Three Blind Mice"". It was Potter's second book of rhymes published by Warne. Merchandise generated from the tale includes Beswick Pottery porcelain figurines and Schmid music boxes. Beatrix Potter's career as a children's author and illustrator was launched in 1900 when she revised a tale written in 1893 about a humanized rabbit, fashioned a"
"""But you don't know what a scramble I live in; and the old drawings are some of them better than any I could do now."" Fruing grabbed at Potter's proposal. ""Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes"" was released in October 1917 with a revised edition of ""Peter Rabbit's Painting Book"" and the new ""Tom Kitten's Painting Book"". ""Appley Dapply"" sold well. Potter was satisfied and wrote Warne in late October, ""I am much pleased with A. D., it makes a pretty book."" It was reprinted in November 1917, and, by the end of the year, 20,000 copies had been sold. The dummy"
"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."
"poem by the English writer Jane Taylor, and ""Mary Had a Little Lamb"", written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830. Nursery rhymes were also often collected by early folk-song collectors, including, in Scotland, Sir Walter Scott and, in Germany, Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in ""Des Knaben Wunderhorn"" (1806–8). The first, and possibly the most important, academic collections to focus in this area were James Orchard Halliwell's ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842) and ""Popular Rhymes and Tales"" (1849). By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's ""A Book of Nursery Songs"" (1895), child folklore had become an academic"
"book would be raided again in 1922 to compile a collection of nursery rhymes called ""Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes"" as a companion to ""Appley Dapply"". The book opens with a three-stanza rhyme about Appley Dapply, a mouse who raids cupboards for treats, and is accompanied with three illustrations, one which depicts a little mouse running away from a cupboard with a tray of pies: The following rhyme tells of Peter Rabbit's sister, Cotton-tail, and her implied courtship by a little black rabbit who leaves a gift of carrots at her door. In ""The Tale of Mr. Tod"", Cotton-tail is married"
"in an effort to stave off the firm's complete ruin. Potter was unwilling to become involved in the intense labour of preparing an entirely new book, and suggested the publisher raid the ""Appley Dapply"" dummy book prepared a decade and a half earlier. Seven rhymes with their accompanying illustrations were chosen and published as ""Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes"". The book sold well. Modern critics consider ""Appley Dapply"" an uneven compilation of illustrations spanning decades and styles across Potter's career and suggest that it fails as a unified work. The rhymes of Potter's composition are critically considered not particularly memorable, and"
"largely based on the original, as were some in the 20th century. The accompanying illustrations, however, have moved their focus from using children as protagonists to a more fanciful approach this century, ranging from the whimsical beasts of Étienne Delessert (""Aa was an Apple Pie"", Mankato, Minn. 2005), to the animated alphabet of England's Luke Farookhi. The nursery rhyme seems to have appealed particularly to the English writer Charles Dickens, who mentions it in three works. The first mention is within an essay on ""A Christmas Tree"" (1850), on which the illustrated nursery books so popular at the time are"
"of ninety-four pages and thirty rhymes, twenty-one of which Warne approved for future publication. When Warne died suddenly and unexpectedly in August 1905, the book of rhymes was set aside, and Potter turned her attention to other projects. Early in 1917, Frederick Warne & Co. faced financial ruin after then-publisher Harold Warne was convicted of forgery and sentenced to eighteen months of hard labor in a London prison. Potter was the company's greatest creditor and artistic property, and, when asked to do what she could to save the firm, she agreed to provide a book for Christmas: ""I hope Appley"
"towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including ""To market, to market"" and ""Cock a doodle doo"", which date from at least the late 16th century. The first English collections, ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", are both thought to have been published by Mary Cooper in London before 1744, with such songs becoming known as 'Tommy Thumb's songs'. John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, ""Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets"
"Nursery Songs"" (1870). The earliest reference to the well-known verse is in ""Namby Pamby"", a satire by Henry Carey published in 1725, in which he himself italicised lines dependent on the original: <poem style=""margin-left:24px> Now he sings of ""Jackey Horner"" ""Sitting in the Chimney-Corner"" ""Eating of a Christmas pye,"" ""Putting in his thumb"", Oh fie! ""Putting in,"" Oh fie! ""his Thumb,"" ""Pulling out"", Oh strange! ""a Plum.""</poem> This occurrence has been taken to suggest that the rhyme was well known by the early eighteenth century. Carey's poem ridicules fellow writer Ambrose Philips, who had written infantile poems for the young"
"antiquities (historical), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs (lullabies). By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's ""A Book of Nursery Songs"" (1895), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and footnotes. A professional anthropologist, Andrew Lang (1844–1912) produced ""The Nursery Rhyme Book"" in 1897. The early years of the 20th century are notable for the illustrations to children's books including Caldecott's ""Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book"" (1909) and Arthur Rackham's ""Mother Goose"" (1913). The definitive study of English rhymes remains the work of Iona and Peter Opie. Many nursery rhymes have"
"market"" and ""Cock a doodle doo"", but most were not written down until the eighteenth century, when the publishing of children's books began to move towards entertainment. The first English collections were ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", both thought to have been published before 1744, and at this point such songs were known as ""Tommy Thumb's songs"". The publication of John Newbery's ""Mother Goose's Melody; or, Sonnets for the Cradle"" (c. 1785) is the first record we have of many classic rhymes still in use today. These rhymes seem to have come from"
"own book, ""The Funnyfeathers"" (E. P. Dutton), featuring the adventures of the Dinky Duckings, Panty Banty, Pidgy the Poet, Daffy Duck and Old Crooky Crow. Other books by Campbell included ""Dippy Doodlebug"", ""Bizzy Izzy Humbug"", ""Duck and Applesauce"", ""Dicky Bird’s Diary"" and ""Merry Murphy"". He also did Br'er Rabbit illustrations. His cartoons appeared in ""Life"" and ""Judge"". He illustrated the cartoon strip, “Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures” with Howard R. Garis and created ""Piggy Pigtail"", ""Paddy the Pup"", ""Dippy Doodlebug"", ""Bizzy Izzy Humbug"", ""The Dinky Ducklings"", ""Duck and Applesauce"", ""Dicky Bird’s Diary,"" ""Merry Murphy"" and more on his own. From 1919 to"
"collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"". The following additional verses are often added to the rhyme: The earliest record of this rhyme is in a manuscript of around 1805, which contains only the first verse. There are references to a children's game called ""bo-peep"", from the 16th century, including one in Shakespeare's ""King Lear"" (Act I Scene iv), for which ""bo-peep"" is thought to refer to the children's game of peek-a-boo, but there's no evidence that the rhyme existed earlier than the 18th century. The additional verses are first recorded in the earliest printed"
"published in 1718, but it differs from the modern tune and no lyrics were given. An issue of ""Blackwood's Magazine"" in 1821 noted the rhyme as a being sung to the tune of ""Nancy Dawson"", now better known as ""Nuts in May"" and the same tune was given in Richard Thomson's ""Chronicles of London Bridge"" (1827). Another tune was recorded in Samuel Arnold's ""Juvenile Amusements"" in 1797. E. F. Rimbault's ""Nursery Rhymes"" (1836) has the same first line, but then a different tune. The tune now associated with the rhyme was first recorded in 1879 in the US in A."
"in Paris in 1912 and later that year in Chicago. John Newbery was once believed to have published a compilation of English nursery rhymes titled "", or, Sonnets for the cradle"" some time in the 1760s, but the first edition was probably published in 1780 or 1781 by Thomas Carnan, one of Newbery's successors (and stepson). This edition was registered with the Stationers' Company, London in 1780. However, no copy has been traced, and the earliest surviving edition is dated 1784. The name ""Mother Goose"" has been associated in the English-speaking world with children's poetry ever since. In 1834, John"
"scampering mice, and their mother as a mouse whipping her children in a shoe in the background. In ""Appley Dapply"" however, the author speculates upon the identity of the old woman in two stanzas, believing she was a mouse due to being able to live in a shoe. In the first illustration, the mouse and her children tumble from an elaborately beaded turquoise-blue shoe, and, in the illustration accompanying the second stanza, the mouse knits peacefully – presumably while the children are in bed. The fifth rhyme tells of Diggory Delvet, the first mole in Potter's work. He may have"
"for Infant Minds"" in 1810. In the two volumes of ""Original Poems for Infant Minds"", the Taylor sisters, O'Keeffe and the other contributors were identified as authors for each poem by initial or other identifying markers. In ""Rhymes for the Nursery"" (1806), Ann and Jane Taylor were not identified as authors of the collection or of individual poems. The most famous piece in the 1806 collection is ""The Star,"" commonly known today as ""Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"", which was set to a French tune. Christina Duff Stewart identifies authorship in ""Rhymes for the Nursery"" based on a copy belonging to"
"1830. The first, and possibly the most important collection to focus in this area was, James Orchard Halliwell's, ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842) and ""Popular Rhymes and Tales"" in 1849. At the height of the revival Sabine Baring-Gould produced ""A Book of Nursery Songs"" (1895), and Andrew Lang produced ""The Nursery Rhyme Book"" in 1897. Children's songs, unlike folk songs, have remained part of a living and continuous tradition, for although added to from other sources and affected by written versions, most adults pass on songs they learned from oral sources as children. It has been noted by most"
"were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. British folk groups, such as Fairport Convention, have drawn heavily from these ballads. In the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and the most popular date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", were published before 1744. John Newbery's compilation of English rhymes, ""Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle"" (London, c. 1765), is the first record we have of many classic rhymes, still in use today. The 19th-century historian James"
"C. Rossetti, 1913 ""The Daisy Lullaby."" [Two-part song.] Words by M. Byron, 1908 ""The Dancers."" Two-Part Song for female voices, with Pianoforte accompaniment, the words by M. C. Gillington, 1905 ""A Dirge for the Year."" Words by P. B. Shelley, 1893 ""The Discontented Bunny."" Action Song, words by M. C. Gillington, 1911 ""The Dustman."" Song, the words by M. Byron, 1904 ""Eight Variations on an original Theme"" for pianoforte, violin, viola and cello. Op. 11, 1893 ""Elfin Sleep Song"" [Three- part song], etc., 1899 ""The Fairy Cobbler."" Two-Part Song for female voices, words by M. C. Gillington, 1898 ""The Fairy"
"Nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and most popular rhymes date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", were published before 1744. Publisher John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother"
"Variations on a Nursery Tune (Dohnányi) The Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25, is a piece for piano and orchestra by Ernő Dohnányi. It is subtitled ""For the enjoyment of humorous people and for the annoyance of others"". Written in 1914, it captures the spirit of Romanticism, and manages to delight and enthrall in its sparkling piano writing and lush orchestral textures, and its wit in the treatment of the theme – the French nursery song ""Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman"", otherwise known as ""Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"". Like Dohnányi, Mozart also wrote variations on this nursery tune (K. 265/300e)."
"not thru envy of thi hapy lot, But beeing too hapy in thien hapynes, That thow, liet-winged Dryad of the trees, In sum meloedius plot Of beechen green, and shadoes numberles Singest of sumer in fuul-throeted eez. </poem> In 1910 philologist Alexander John Ellis played a major role in developing a system now known as ""Classic New Spelling"". Walter Ripman and William Archer wrote the first dictionary of the system, ""New Spelling"" (NuSpelling), which was republished in 1941 by the Simplified Spelling Society. In 1969 Godfrey Dewey improved upon Ripman's and Archer's work, producing ""World English Spelling"". Dewey and Edward"
"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)."
"The Nursery ""Alice"" The Nursery ""Alice"" (1889/90) is a shortened version of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) by Lewis Carroll, adapted by the author himself for children """"from nought to five"""". It includes 20 of John Tenniel's illustrations from the original book, redrawn, enlarged, coloured – and, in some cases, revised – by Tenniel himself. The book was published by Macmillan a quarter-century after the original ""Alice"". It featured new illustrated front and back covers in full colour by E. Gertrude Thomson, who was a good friend of Dodgson. The book was 'engraved and printed' by the famous colour printer"
"Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John ""Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19709. The most commonly used modern version is: Alternate versions include: The rhyme is first recorded in ""The Newest Christmas Box"" published in London around 1797. It may be derived from 'Diddle, diddle, diddle Dumpling', a traditional street cry of hot dumpling sellers. The rhyme was used in the refrain of the song ""Nursery Rhyme,"" written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, from The Archies' 1969 album Jingle Jangle. 4. BBC 'Inside number"
"Song Book"", published in London by Mary Cooper in 1744. For many years, it was thought that there was only a single copy in existence, now in the British Library, but in 2001 another copy appeared and was sold for £45,000. Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby, quotes or alludes to some half-dozen or so nursery rhymes. As a result, this is the oldest printed collection of English nursery rhymes that is available. The rhymes and illustrations were printed from copper plates, the text being stamped with punches into the plates, a technique borrowed from map and"
"ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque"". Part I – A Child's Garden of Verses The Child Alone Garden Days Envoys A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley"
"poem, similar to ""Thirty days hath September"", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century. From the later Middle Ages there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia. From the mid-16th century they begin to be recorded in English plays. ""Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"" is one of the oldest surviving English nursery rhymes. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas d'Urfey's play ""The Campaigners"" from 1698. Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education"
"of books between 1915 and 1926: ""Teddy Tail in Nursery Rhyme Land"" (1915), ""Teddy Tail in Fairyland"" (1916), ""Teddy Tail's Alphabet"" (1921), and ""Teddy Tail's Adventures in the A B Sea"" (1926). The success of the character inspired other newspapers to create similar characters such as ""Pip and Squeak"", and ""Rupert Bear"". After World War I, Folkard continued to produce arrays of books for the firm of A. & C. Black including ""Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes"" (1919), ""British Fairy and Folk Tales"" (1920), ""Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass"" (1921), ""The Magic Egg"" (1922), and the Polish"
"a new edition (also in 5 volumes) with the title ""Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive"", published by Jacob Tonson. Volumes I and II now consisted entirely of songs (words, not tunes) by D'Urfey. The edition sold out quickly and in the second printing D'Urfey reverted to the ""Pills"" title. He added Volume 6 in 1720. The title itself may derive from a 1599 pamphlet ""A Pil to Purge Melancholie"". In 1920 William Giles Whittaker published ""North Country Folk Song set for unaccompanied voices: Words from D'Urfey's ""Pills to Purge Melancholy."" In 1956 Ed McCurdy recorded ""When Dalliance Was In Flower"
"A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title ""Carmina non prius audita de"