Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes Part B

Wikipedia: This Is the House That Jack Built

My two focuses of this reading note is on that of beautiful sentences and character charting. Since theses stories are nursery rhymes, the way they are told must be in an uplifting way even though what is being said may not be exactly joyous. Such as in the rhyme of Jack and Jill,

"Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water;

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

And Jill came tumbling after."

As kids, singing this we laughed and joked about such a rhyme, but when you actually think about it, it is pretty sad cause Jack actually dies. Also through character charting we are given very important characteristics in short rhymes about a character. Being able to do such in my own storybook would be essential.

Bibliography:
Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897)