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The name ladybird contains a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, often referred to as Our Lady, a convention that occurs in other European cultures where the insect is similarly addressed. In Germany it is the Marienkäfer, where a nursery rhyme runs “Marybug, fly away, your house is on fire, your wee mother weeps” (Marienkäferchen, fliege ...
Mrs. Tittlemouse sends the uninvited ladybird off with a variant of the traditional nursery rhyme Ladybird Ladybird: "Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your children!". She then runs into a spider who asks her: "Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?", a reference to the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Thy house is on fire, thy children all roam, Except little Nan, who sits on her pan, Weaving gold laces as fast as she can.
Ladybird Fly Away Home (2020-09-01). "A complete List of all Ladybird Books published between 1940 and the early 1980s" (PDF). Ladybird Fly Away Home (Mailing list). Johnson, Lorraine; Alderson, Brian (2014). The Ladybird Story, Children's Books for Everyone (1st ed.). The British Library Publishing Division. ISBN 9780712357289.
The couple moved from London to rural England. Their interest in children's lore has been credited to the Opies recalling whilst out on a countryside walk, the ‘Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home’ rhyme from their youth. They began researching into the origins of the rhyme, and as their interest grew they began to collect nursery rhyme books ...
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: Where in the World Is That?! What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra. Which U.S. state has the most islands?
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...
Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. [1] The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books . It is an imprint of Penguin Random House , a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann .