"the 1782 poem by William Cowper), which depicts Gilpin astride a runaway horse. The reverse is based on ""Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"", one of Caldecott's illustrations for the nursery rhyme ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"". Beside the Caldecott Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to worthy runners-up, called the Caldecott Honors or Caldecott Honor Books. The ""Honor"" was introduced in 1971, but some runners-up had been identified annually and all those runners-up were retroactively named Caldecott Honor Books. The number of Honors or runners-up had always been one to five, and it had"
"Sing a Song of Sixpence ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as number 13191. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" (c. 1602), (Act II, Scene iii), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: ""Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song"" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's ""Bonduca"" (1614), which contains the line ""Whoa, here's a stir now! Sing a song o' sixpence!"" In the past it has often been attributed"
"his reputation for miserliness was enhanced by the diminution of the crown's charity work after the queen's death. He was buried with Elizabeth of York under their effigies in his Westminster Abbey chapel. Her tomb was opened in the 19th century and the wood casing of her lead coffin was found to have been removed to create space for the interment of her great-great-grandson James VI and I. According to folklore, the ""queen ... in the parlour"" in the children's nursery rhyme ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"" is Elizabeth of York, while her husband is the king counting his money."
"were disguised as desserts"". As Bertrand Baudelaire is about to cut into these desserts and several guests are passing around ""the sugar bowl"", Sunny Baudelaire sees a man with an ""exceptionally large and sharp"" nose looking through the window and shrieks, ""Funcoot!"", which Snicket glosses as, ""I believe I may have seen someone lurking outside"" (""Al Funcoot"" is an anagrammatic pseudonym of Count Olaf). Klaus, having just read ""Taking the Teeth Out of Teething"", believes that Sunny is teething, prompting Violet to create a device using ""a silver pie server and the ear of the snowman ice sculpture"" (likely one"
"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"
"The Queen's Nose The Queen's Nose is a children's novel by Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz in 1983 with illustrations by Jill Bennett. Set in England, where King-Smith lived, it features a girl who can use a fifty pence coin to make wishes. It was adapted as the 1995 TV series ""The Queen's Nose"", which was a great success and ran for 7 series. The book by Dick King Smith features the story of Harmony Parker, a 10-year-old girl who wants an animal of her own but is not allowed by her parents, who think animals are dirty. Harmony"
"Camel's nose The camel's nose is a metaphor for a situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions. According to Geoffrey Nunberg, the image entered the English language in the middle of the 19th century. An early example is a fable printed in 1858 in which an Arab miller allows a camel to stick its nose into his bedroom, then other parts of its body, until the camel is entirely inside and refuses to leave. Lydia Sigourney wrote another version, a widely reprinted poem for children, in which the"
"publisher that ""Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes"" be published in the smaller ""Miss Moppet"" format. The tale opens with an illustration of a wide-eyed kitten: ""This is a Pussy called Miss Moppet, she thinks she has heard a mouse!"" The following illustration depicts a mouse wearing a pink bowtie and green jacket ""peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun of Miss Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten."" Miss Moppet darts at him, but misses and bumps her head on the cupboard. She hits the cupboard very hard and rubs her nose. The mouse scurries to the top of"
"fingernails may increase risks of infection that may include an increase in the diversity of nose flora (and thus infection or illness), or occasional nosebleeds. One case of rhinotillexomania resulted in perforation of the nasal septum and self-induced ethmoidectomy. Nose picking, however, should not affect the sense of smell, as the nasal cavity where the olfactory nerves are located is too high up to reach. Harry, a character in the novel ""Requiem for a Dream"" (1978), mentions in the first chapter of the book that he enjoys picking his nose. The Mothers of Invention song ""Let's Make the Water Turn"
"nose. This episode is derived from the prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale rather than the tale itself. Sixth Tale (The Reeve's Tale) In Cambridge, two students (Alan and John) bring a sack of grain to a mill to be milled into flour. Simkin the miller tricks the youths by freeing their horse and switching their flour for bran while they chase after it. When they return with the horse, it is late in the evening, and the students ask to stay the night. The miller agrees to let them stay, and the two share a pallet bed next"
"can stick into their ear, and a thing on the other end which one cannot stick anywhere, because it's bent.) (NOTE: The original version stated the word ""naked"" before ""lady"", however, because of the risqué subject, Sherman was advised to drop the word ""naked"" for airplay and public release purposes.) Sixth day: A hammered aluminum nutcracker. (""And all that other stuff."") Seventh day: A pink satin pillow that says ""San Diego"", with fringe all around it, and all that other stuff. (Which is the last mention of earlier gifts until the last verse.) Eighth day: An indoor plastic birdbath. Ninth"
"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"
"has a 15-year-old sister, Melody, who spends most of her time looking in a mirror. Harmony's best friend is a toy dog, Rex Ruff Monty. Harmony believes animals are more interesting than humans and so she pictures the people she meets as animals. Her father is a sea lion, her mother a Pouter pigeon and her sister a Siamese cat. She receives a magic coin from her uncle, Ginger, that grants her seven wishes. —immediately, first US edition The Queen's Nose The Queen's Nose is a children's novel by Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz in 1983 with illustrations by"
"Paranoid: A Chant ""Paranoid: A Chant"" is a 100-line poem by Stephen King originally published in the 1985 short story collection ""Skeleton Crew"". The poem is a first-person narrative from the diary of a person with paranoid schizophrenia, the character complains of persecution from ""the old woman in the room above"" who ""has put an electric suction cup on the floor..."" ""the waitress says its salt, but I know arsenic when it's put before me..."" and many more horrors. When he is served food with mustard he thinks it is ""to mask the bitter odor of almonds,"" presumably a reference"
"o’er a courtier's nose, <br> And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; <br> And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail <br> Tickling a parson's nose as a’ lies asleep, <br> Then dreams, he of another benefice: <br> Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier's neck,<br> And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, <br> Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, <br> Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon <br> Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,<br> And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two<br> And sleeps again. This is that very Mab <br> That plaits"
"say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat."" She is implied to be ugly by Mercutio, who urges the Nurse's servant Peter to fetch her fan quickly, ""to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face."" Mercutio also mentions her age, calling her an ""ancient lady"" as he exits from the same scene. Some illustrations even depict her as an obese or big boned woman, because of how Mercutio insults her. He calls ""A sail! A sail!"" Meaning he thinks that the nurse is as big as a ship. The Nurse is also a frequent user of malapropisms. Her"
"included in the lyrics sheet, but lines 3-8 of the final stanza are omitted on the recording. The vocal line is mostly, but not entirely, in monotone, with the majority of musical ideas carried by the instrumental music, melodies built on a harmonic pinning of the dominant sevenths A, F, B, and, D. The lyrics of 'Nose-list song': Never saw such a nose in my life 'Tis a nose of parchment It is six times as big but 'tis a nose like my nose I heard it crackle I saw it bleed What a pity we didn’t both touch it"
"boy with his whiskers on sure I never saw before."" Each new item appearing in the house is said to be a gift from the wife's mother. The final two verses are often not sung, generally considered too raunchy, different versions are cited below. Verse six sometimes keeps the same story line, in which two hands appear on the wife's breasts. The wife, giving the least likely explanation yet, tells him that it is merely a nightgown, though the man notices that this nightgown has fingers. In yet another version, the wife remarks that he's seen a hammer in her"
"Little Miss Muffet ""Little Miss Muffet"" is a nursery rhyme, one of the most commonly printed in the mid-twentieth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme first appeared in print in 1805, in a book titled ""Songs for the Nursery"". Like many such rhymes, its origins are unclear. Some claim it was written by Dr Thomas Muffet (d.1604), an English physician and entomologist, regarding his stepdaughter Patience; others claim it refers to Mary, Queen of Scots (1543–87), who was said to have been frightened by religious reformer John Knox (1510–72). The first explanation is"
"purpose to exclude them on the present occasion.' But Southey was not appeased. He tells Allan Cunningham that 'the new edition of Byron's works is ... one of the very worst symptoms of these bad times' . The dedication also takes issue with the Lake Poets generally: and specifically: Wordsworth: and Southey's predecessor as Laureate, Henry James Pye in the use of and pun on the old song ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"" The poem is in eight line iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ab ab ab cc – often the last rhyming couplet is used for a humor"
"of her commercial activities. A different version was versified by Jefferys Taylor as ""The Milkmaid"" in his ""Aesop in Rhyme"" (1820). As in Bonaventure des Périers' telling, the bulk of the poem is given over to the long reckoning of prices. It ends with the maid toppling her pail by superciliously tossing her head in rejection of her former humble circumstances. The moral on which Taylor ends his poem is 'Reckon not your chickens before they are hatched’, where a later collection has 'Count not...' The proverb fits the story and its lesson so well that one is tempted to"
"exaggerates one common trait (one so thin she falls through a knot-hole). Suggested alternate lyrics include: <poem> Oh, dear, what can the matter be, Six old maids were stuck in the lavat'ry, They were there from Sunday till Saturday, Nobody knew they were there The first one in was fat lady Humphreys - squeezed herself down and she said ""it's quite comfy"" but when she was through she could not get her bum free – and nobody knew she was there. Refrain The next one there was old lady Grayson – she couldn't get in so she peed in the"
"15-stanza poem that rambled through a variety of adventures involving not only the egg but also Mother Goose's son Jack. There exists an illustrated chapbook omitting their opening stanza that dates from the 1820s and another version was recorded by J. O. Halliwell in his ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842). Other shorter versions were also recorded later. All of them, however, were dependent on a very successful pantomime first performed in 1806, and it is only by reference to its script that the unexplained gaps in the poem's narration are made clear. The pantomime was the work of Thomas"
"David Lloyd George’s use of his party political fund. Other humorous uses of the nursery rhyme include a comic variation in Guy Wetmore Carryl’s ""Mother Goose for Grown Ups"" (New York, 1900) in which Jack breaks his tooth on a plum stone, and one of Lee G. Kratz’s ""Humorous Quartets for Men’s Voices"" (Boston, 1905) in which the pie is stolen by a cat. In the chapbook ""The History of Jack Horner, Containing the Witty Pranks he play'd, from his Youth to his Riper Years, Being pleasant for Winter Evenings"" (mid-18th century), there is a summarised version of the nursery"
"Despite Louise's reservations, Sally performs a piece she will present in her school assembly, involving the nursery rhyme ""Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling"": <poem> Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John, Went to bed with his trousers on! One shoe off, and one shoe on, Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John! </poem> Despite a pained expression, David applauds, hugging his daughter. Louise encounters the shoe outside her house. Inside, David confronts her about a photograph he has found—Louise's college friend, Ted, is the man to whom David gave the shoe. He has also found a receipt for a new set of shoes, bought"
"the rulers and their courtiers to stage elaborate feasts where the attraction was as much the entertainment provided by musicians, comedians, jugglers and acrobats as the food itself. Sometimes the two were combined. Around 1630, at a dinner attended by Charles I, a huge game pie was placed on the table. But when the crust was removed, a dwarf armed with sword and buckler sprang from the coffin. On another occasion, the king was served a surprise pie containing live birds, perhaps the origin of the rhyme ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"". The game pies of that period were sweeter"
"them and fly out when it is cut up"" and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott. The wedding of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. ""The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal was sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti."" In their 1951 ""The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes"", Iona and Peter Opie write that the rhyme has been tied to a variety"
"is the original. Little Miss Muffet ""Little Miss Muffet"" is a nursery rhyme, one of the most commonly printed in the mid-twentieth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme first appeared in print in 1805, in a book titled ""Songs for the Nursery"". Like many such rhymes, its origins are unclear. Some claim it was written by Dr Thomas Muffet (d.1604), an English physician and entomologist, regarding his stepdaughter Patience; others claim it refers to Mary, Queen of Scots (1543–87), who was said to have been frightened by religious reformer John Knox (1510–72). The"
"second platinum album. The song ""Sir Nose d'Voidoffunk (Pay Attention – B3M)"" contains nursery rhymes ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"" and ""Three Blind Mice""; the lyrics were changed to make reference to drug use. The original vinyl release contained a 22"" by 33"" inch poster of the character ""Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk"", as well as an 8-page comic book that explains the concept behind the LP. Both the poster and the comic book were illustrated by Overton Loyd. According to George Clinton, Mallia Franklin also sang on this album with other original Parlet members Debbie Wright and Jeanette Washington but she is"
"nails and he is thick as a plank. Maisie bears resemblance to Lucy van Pelt in Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"" strip. The British actress Maisie Williams was christened Margaret but has always been known as Maisie, after the character. A toddler, possibly named after the ""Baby Dumpling"" character in the US comic strip ""Blondie"". In the early days of the strip he did not speak, because he knew that once he started he would be expected to keep talking all the time. When he finally began to speak he did so in lower-case letters. In the early days of the strip"
"she would be the most beautiful woman in the world, that gold would drop from her hair when she brushed it, and from her mouth when she spoke. When her stepsister saw this, she wanted to go as well, but she was rude to the three heads, and they decreed that her nose would be four ells long, she would have a snout three ells long and a pine-bush in her forehead, and ashes would drop from her mouth when she spoke. Meanwhile, the stepson worked as a groom for the king. Every day, he took out a picture of"
"the door opens"". When an anxious Jane points out that the nursery door is always opening, she clarifies ""the Other Door."" Mrs. Banks has Mary and the children find a piano tuner, who happens to be Mary's cousin, Mr. Twigley. When Mary and the children visit, Mr. Twigley tries to unburden himself from seven wishes given to him when he was born. Besides pianos, Mr. Twigley also specializes in songbirds such as nightingales, one of which he releases when he's finished. He also provides music boxes for Mary and the Banks children to dance to. When they return home later,"
"for the big toe to five for the little toe) is never stated. In 1728, the first line of the rhyme appeared in a medley called ""The Nurse's Song"". The first known full version was recorded in ""The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-Book"", published in London about 1760. The full rhyme continued to appear, with slight variations, in many late 18th and early 19th century collections. Until the mid-20th century, the lines referred to ""little pigs"". This Little Piggy ""This Little Piggy"" or ""This Little Pig"" is an English language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song"