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Why We Should Study Nursery Rhymes: Mother Goose is Incomprehensible and Violent Why Bother Reading It?

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

The Story of Baa, Baa Black Sheep: A Nursery Rhyme against Taxes

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Little Jack Horner: A Good Boy or Conniving Politician?

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

Understanding Ring around the Rosy: A Simple Spring Chant or a Rhyme about the Bubonic Plague?

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Understand Goosey, Goosey Gander: A Nursery Rhyme About Religious Intolerance

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Pussycat, Pussycat: A Picture: No Hidden Meanings in this Nursery Rhyme

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Ride A Cock Horse: What Lady Took the Famous Ride to Banbury Cross?

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Hey Diddle, Diddle: A Nursery Rhyme about Court Intrigue

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Pop Goes the Weasel: Making Sense of a Nonsense Nursery Rhyme

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: The Bloody Story Behind the Rhyme

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Alphabet Poem: Teaching Kids Poetry

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

How to Write a Couplet: Easy Verse for Children

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

How to Write a Cinquain: Five-Lined Poetry

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

How to Write a Cento: The Patchwork Poem

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

How to Write Alliterations: For Book Writing and Schooling

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

Write a Lune: The American Haiku

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

Write an Acrostic Poem: Simple Instructions for Kids

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

Write a Haiku: Simple Instructions for Kids Who Write

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

The poetry of Shel Silverstein: Modern Folktales presented to children

By: Diana Tierney

Politically Correct Nursery Rhymes: Revisionism of popular children's songs, fairy tales: a sacrifice?

By: Katrien Vander Straeten

Nursery Rhymes

By: Diana Tierney

Poetry for Kids! Teaching Poetry

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Yetter

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