{"id":1407,"date":"2010-01-30T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2010-01-30T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:42:01","slug":"not-quite-nursery-rhymes-i-like-allan-ahlberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100130-1407.htm","title":{"rendered":"Not quite nursery rhymes (I like Allan Ahlberg)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do children learn nursery rhymes? <\/p>\n

I certainly don’t know how I learned them–but learn them I did. Whether I was taught them by my parents, read them in books, or heard them from an audio cassette tape doesn’t really matter. I learned them any way.<\/p>\n

Allan Ahlberg’s books Each Peach Pear Plum<\/i> and Previously<\/i> aren’t nursery rhymes–but they draw upon the grand store of English nursery rhymes to tell their tales. <\/p>\n

\"Each<\/p>\n

Each Peach Pear Plum<\/i> is an “I spy” book in which readers are given opportunity to find nursery rhyme characters in the illustrations. <\/p>\n

Each Peach Pear Plum
\nI spy Tom Thumb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every layout builds upon the previous layout–so Tom Thumb is easily seen in the second page, but Mother Hubbard is hidden.<\/p>\n

This is a fun, not too difficult book\/activity to do with young children who are already familiar with a decent collection of nursery rhymes and children’s fairy tales. (And if they’re not, you should remedy that post-haste!)<\/p>\n

\"Previously<\/p>\n

Previously<\/i> turns the nursery rhymes and fairy tales backwards, starting with Goldilocks arriving at home “all bothered and hot.”<\/p>\n

Previously she had been running like mad in the dark woods.<\/p>\n

Previously she had been climbing out of somebody else’s window.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out that previously<\/i> Goldilocks had run into Jack (of Beanstock fame), who had previously<\/i> tumbled down the hill with his little sister Jill, who had previously<\/i> met a frog-prince, who had previously<\/i>…<\/p>\n

I think you get the picture.<\/p>\n

\"Reading<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a fun, if somewhat inside-out romp through the repertoire of English fairy tales and nursery rhymes.<\/p>\n

I’m enjoying Allan Ahlberg in my trip through my local library’s picture book section. Check out Reading My Library<\/a> to read about Carrie’s trip through HER local library with her two sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do children learn nursery rhymes? I certainly don’t know how I learned them–but learn them I did. Whether I was taught them by my parents, read them in books, or heard them from an audio cassette tape doesn’t really matter. I learned them any way. Allan Ahlberg’s books Each Peach Pear Plum and Previously … Read more Not quite nursery rhymes (I like Allan Ahlberg)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[82,235,371,822,889],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}