You'll never look at Mother Goose quite the same way

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	• Heavy Words Lightly Thrown : The Reason Behind the Rhyme Chris Roberts, 2005 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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You'll never look at Mother Goose quite the same way

Was Jack Horner a squatter? Why was Mary so contrary? And what made Gorgy Porgy run? The history beyond common nursery rhymes is covered in a lively survey of rhyme meaning and origins in Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind The Rhyme. Here are quirky tales and realities: once you read Heavy Words, you'll never look at Mother Goose quite the same way!

Light on Reason

This book depended too much on supposition. Rather than telling us the reason behind the rhyme, too frequently he told us several ways it might have been. This was musing more than fact finding.

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Charles, Cromwell, Henry, and Jack

What an interesting way to study history. Who knew how so many familiar rhymes came out of specific periods of history? Well, I guess Chris Roberts did. HEAVY WORDS was a useful tool in my English classes to help them create simple rhymes to highlight current political events and themes.

Great, but not quite what I was expecting...

Those looking for an insightful peek into the origins of those enigmatic nursery rhymes will probably not be disappointed by Chris Roberts' Heavy Words Thrown Lightly: The Reason Behind the Rhyme. Taking many of the best (and lesser) known nursery rhymes, Roberts puts them in historical context and dissects them (in an entertaining fashion) in order to reveal how these seemingly harmless rhymes often commented on the social and political climates of their day, as well as on subjects less couth. This book's chief failing is that it is sometimes difficult to discern where Roberts' sarcasm and conjecture ends and the actual facts begin, making this book, perhaps, a doubtful resource and more of an entertainment. Worth reading, nonetheless.

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