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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Names of Nursery Rhymes poets/Authors we need to know

Every one of them in their childhood must have come across nursery rhymes such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little star", "Ring a Ring o Rosies" etc most of these rhymes are like defacto in schools around the world in most of the countries, and many of you would have even taught to your kids or other children but have you ever tried to know the names of the real persons who actually wrote it? i bet no one would have, recently i was showing some rhymes to my nephew in youtube and i was like "wait a minute" who is the person who wrote this rhyme that 90% of the children around the world are learning next moment i started googling wiki-page and i learn't who author was below are the list of rhymes and the poet/author behind it

Name of Rhyme

Author / Origin

Published Year

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and Jane (Taylor(1783-1824)

1806

Baa Baa Black Sheep

The slave trade; medieval wool tax

1744

Ring Around the Rosy

Black Death (1348) or The Great Plague (1665)

1881

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Not Known

1744

Ding Dong Bell

Not Known

1580

Hickory Dickory Dock

Reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith

1765

Hot Cross Buns Rhyme

Not Known

1798

Humpty Dumpty

Richard III of England; Cardinal Wolseyand a cannon from the English Civil War

1810

Itsy Bitsy Spider Rhyme

Not Known

Not Known

Jack and Jill

Cullen Boltey

1765

Mary had a little lamb

Sarah Josepha Hale (American Origin)

1830

London Bridge is broken down / Falling Down

Lady Lee (Not sure)

Not Known

Star light, star bright,

Not Known (American Origin)

Late 19thC

Pussy cat, pussy cat

Not Known (England)

1805

Rain rain go away

Not Known (England)

17th C or earlier

Row, row, row your boat,

Not Known (American Origin)

1852

This little piggy

Not Known (England)

1760

Three Blind Mice

Mary I of England

1744

Old MacDonald had a farm

F. T. Nettleingham (Original Version)

1917

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Not Known (Origin London)

1805

johnny johnny yes papa

Not Known

Not Known


Above is the list of some famous nursery rhymes i came across, i was amazed to see i was not able to find most of the poet behind the rhymes if you think you have a rhyme to add with author and date leave it in comment section i will add it to the table asap.

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