Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes, Part A

I chose to do the reading notes over the section of Nursery Rhymes. There were a lot of rhymes to choose from and each page had many tales. There were many that caught my eye, but I only had ideas for a few. It seemed hard to write paragraphs about such short tales, so I simply wrote any possible idea I had when reading these rhymes.

Three Wise Men of Gotham was simple and a short rhyme. Although there was little to it, it told an entire story. A possible idea for retelling it would be from another perspective, making the story more dramatic.

Taffy was a Welshman is another short rhyme. I have the idea to turn this story into a comedic and modern tale about the misfortunes of leaving things at your ex's house. 

Needles and Pins and the proverb following after seemed really interesting to me. For the first proverb, I have the idea of my story taking place at a wedding, with some of my thoughts mixed in. For the second proverb, I found it interesting because the ending was very intriguing. A possible idea is to put the proverb's words int action, have a man lie and have it snowball from there.

Poor Singer is a short song and is quite funny. I'm not sure on how to retell this but I have the idea of the singer being portrayed as a modern-day college student.

Hush-a-Bye Baby seemed like a harsh nursery rhyme growing up and now I've learned that it still seems sinister. I don't know how I would go about transforming this story, I just wanted to include it in my notes in case an idea arises.

While I enjoyed reading all the different rhymes, the ones that I have listed are the only ones that I have notes on for possible stories.

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Bibliography:

 The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang, link to reading online.