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An illustration for the rhyme from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (1833). Children's literature portal ‘Little Robin Redbreast’ is an English language nursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited.
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.
The recorded source of the children's story "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren" is Isabella Burns, later Mrs Isabella Burns Begg, the youngest sister of Robert Burns. Isabella recalled that her brother, Robert Burns, was the author and that he was in the habit of telling the tale to entertain the younger members of his family at ...
As recently as the late 18th century, rhymes like "Little Robin Redbreast" were occasionally cleaned up for a young audience. [35] In the late 19th century, the major concern seems to have been violence and crime, which led some children's publishers in the United States like Jacob Abbot and Samuel Goodrich to change Mother Goose rhymes.
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Robin Redbreast : a story for girls (1890s) An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories, illus. W. J. Hennessy (1892) – coll. of 7, OCLC 905335233; The Girls and I: A Veracious History (1892) The Man With the Pan-Pipes; and Other Stories (circa 1892) Leona (circa 1892) The next-door house (1892) Mary (1893) Nurse Heatherdale's Story; and Little Miss ...
Robin Williams was one of Hollywood's greatest and funniest voices. Two year ago today, the Oscar winner tragically passed away. From sitcoms like "Mork and Mindy," to the touching and inspiring " ...
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