Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes, Part B

These notes come from the Nursery Rhymes unit, Part B written by Andrew Lang.

The Accumulative Stories are quite a bit longer than the other nursery rhymes.

From reading this section, you can see that rhymes can be any length. Some of them tell a tale, while others just mention something about a random character. A story based on these Nursery Rhymes would need to rhyme, again, obviously. I think I would go more on the route of the accumulative stories because the writing has to be at least 300 words long.

Caption: An Old Woman and Her Pig

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Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes, Part A

These notes come from the Nursery Rhymes unit, Part A written by Andrew Lang.

This unit obviously includes rhymes. They are all pretty short on the order of five to ten lines.

My favorite section was that of the proverbs. Specifically, the sneezing rhyme was my favorite:

"IF you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger;

Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;

Sneeze on a Thursday, something better;

Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow;

Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart to-morrow."

Caption: On a Monday

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Reading Notes: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Part G

Bibliography: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Almost to the land of the Quadlings! The forest between the team and the Land of the Quadlings was not a treacherous as I had thought it would be. I suppose there are only so many adventures one can tell about while on a quest. They were met by some Hammerheads on a hill right before their destination who gave the team a good bit of trouble.

This is something that I like about Baum's storytelling. The land of Oz gives him constant creative freedom. He can come up with new characters whenever he pleases. 

This happens to be the last time Dorothy can call the winged monkeys. I'm not sure why she couldn't just give the hat to another character. Then they could have had multiple uses of the monkeys. This is a plot hole. 

But the monkeys get the team to the land of the Quadlings all safe and sound much to the displeasure of the Hammerheads.

Caption: The Strange Hammerheads

Link: https://archive.org/stream/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala#page/242/mode/2up

Image by W. W. Denslow