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Eight short nursery rhymes about Cecily Parsley, Goosey Gander, the five pigs, Pussy-Cat, three blind mice, Tom Tinker's dog, a garden, and Ninny Nanny Netticoat.Tags
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What's in a Name?
As a child, this was my favourite Beatrix Potter. Back then, when no one had a PC, let alone printer, seeing my name in print was almost magical. Especially as it's not one that was ever included racks of personalised pens, t-shirts or mugs.
Maybe one day, I'll meet another person who shares my exact first name. Until then, it's this or The Importance of Being Earnest (see my review HERE), which, as an adult, I much prefer. Such wit!
As for this, with cynical adult eyes, although I love the illustrations, the words of the title rhyme are open to many interpretations, not all of them delightful:
The other show more rhymes include Potter originals as well as traditional ones, like Three Blind Mice, and Goosey Goosey Gander.
There's also this clever but poignant riddle:
If you can't figure it out, see the illustration HERE. show less
As a child, this was my favourite Beatrix Potter. Back then, when no one had a PC, let alone printer, seeing my name in print was almost magical. Especially as it's not one that was ever included racks of personalised pens, t-shirts or mugs.
Maybe one day, I'll meet another person who shares my exact first name. Until then, it's this or The Importance of Being Earnest (see my review HERE), which, as an adult, I much prefer. Such wit!
As for this, with cynical adult eyes, although I love the illustrations, the words of the title rhyme are open to many interpretations, not all of them delightful:
Cecily Parsley lived in a pen,
And brewed good ale for gentlemen;
Gentlemen came every day,
Till Cecily Parsley ran away.
The other show more rhymes include Potter originals as well as traditional ones, like Three Blind Mice, and Goosey Goosey Gander.
There's also this clever but poignant riddle:
Ninny nanny netticoat,
In a white petticoat,
With a red nose,
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.
If you can't figure it out, see the illustration HERE. show less
We have a little garden,
A garden of our own,
And every day we water there
The seeds that we have sown.
When the hummers start humming and the jays start squawking, and the woodies start pecking and the raptors start hawking, I take out my little book of Beatrix Potter verses because spring is in full blossom. The 1983 Ariel publication is my favorite because Allen Atkinson did the illustrations with such love, you believe the little baby bunnies on the cover really put on their jammies for bedtime storytelling. Atkinson left us too soon, and I rejoice when I find one of his books.
We love our little garden,
And tend it with such care,
You will not find a faded leaf
Or blighted blossom there.
Book Season = Spring (de-weed)
A garden of our own,
And every day we water there
The seeds that we have sown.
When the hummers start humming and the jays start squawking, and the woodies start pecking and the raptors start hawking, I take out my little book of Beatrix Potter verses because spring is in full blossom. The 1983 Ariel publication is my favorite because Allen Atkinson did the illustrations with such love, you believe the little baby bunnies on the cover really put on their jammies for bedtime storytelling. Atkinson left us too soon, and I rejoice when I find one of his books.
We love our little garden,
And tend it with such care,
You will not find a faded leaf
Or blighted blossom there.
Book Season = Spring (de-weed)
Never a bad thing to get another take on classic rhymes I suppose though this one seems a bit characterless. Maybe we're far away enough from the late Victorian era now that Beatrix Potter just doesn't make sense.
These short nursery rhymes reminded me of the ones that I heard when I was a small child. I didn't know all of them, but the ones that I do know brought back very good memories. I also liked the illustrations, even though they were a bit hard to see on the Kindle.
This includes a lot of Nursery Rhymes either featuring animals, or featuring animals through the illustrations. They are all beautifully illustrated, of course.
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(Helen) Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943 (Helen) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 in London where she was privately educated. During most of her adult life, she lived in a farm cottage in Sawrey, Westmoreland County. She was unsuccessful in trying to publish her serious botanical work, watercolor studies of fungi, but she wrote and privately published show more "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" for an invalid child in 1900. This story became a children's classic throughout the world. Other animal characters created by her include, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Her tales are illustrated by her own hand in delicate and detailed watercolor pictures depicting her characters. Potter's other works include "The Tailor of Gloucester" published in 1902 and "The Tale of Tom Kitten" published in 1907. At her death in 1943, she bequeathed her property in Sawrey to the National Trust, which also maintains her home as a museum. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
- Original publication date
- 1922; 1987 (new reproductions) (new reproductions)
- People/Characters
- Cecily Parsley
- Dedication
- For
little Peter in New Zealand - First words
- Cecily Parsley lived in a pen,
And brewed good ale for gentlemen ;
Gentlemen came every day,
Till Cecily Parsley ran away. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ninny Nanny Nettlecoat,
In a white petticoat,
With a red nose, --
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows. - Disambiguation notice
- "The reproductions in this book have been made using the most modern electronic scanning methods from entirely new transparencies of Beatrix Potter's original watercolors. [...] This edition with new reproductions first publi... (show all)shed 1987." T.p verso
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