Since a random unpolished gem like the karaoke site we featured a couple of weeks ago seemed to have caught your fancy, we’d thought we’d hit you up with a follow-up. (Then we’ll give it a little rest on this theme, we swear).

Visit The Mother Goose Pages and Never Draw a Blank on a Nursery Rhyme Verse Again If you’ve ever confidently started to recite “Little Jack Horner” and could only come up with the words to “Little Miss Muffet” to complete it (not a hypothetical example, by the way), these homespun pages (that unexpectedly fold under the University of Michigan’s website) are for you.

And Do Note, That Nursery Rhymes Are Not Just For Nursery School

Sure, they’re lovely for lulling a small child to sleep. But dip into this well with school age children as a wonderful way to develop language skills through rhyming and storytelling.

And for the biggest of kids, imagine the term paper (or cocktail party banter) that could be launched with this piece of nursery rhyme knowledge: Remember that innocent little verse “Hey Diddle Diddle?” It’s actually thought to have referred to a concern among the English that Queen Elizabeth I might run off with a particular Spanish royal with whom she was believed to be dallying. (She was the dish, he was the spoon)… Who knew?

Just promise (once you recall the words) that you won’t be taking any parenting cues from “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.”

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/

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