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Chisholm, Margaret – Elementary English, 1972
Explains the origins and meanings of Mother Goose rhymes. (RB)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literary Criticism
Download full textMcKinney, Barbara J. – 1996
Iona and Peter Opie's contribution to children's literature began with a volume on the origins of nursery rhymes. A nursery rhyme tells a brief and memorable surrealist story about people, animals, or familiar activities. Most nursery rhymes were not originally composed for children but were fragments of ballads or folk songs, remnants of ancient…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Fairy Tales
Hearn, Michael Patrick – Teaching and Learning Literature with Children and Young Adults, 1998
Discusses the work of Frenchman Charles Perrault, the seminal figure in fairy tales, and puts it in context of the French fairy tale fashion. Describes how the fairy tale came to England. Describes how the Germans revived the fairy tale at the end of the 18th century, and discusses the work of the Brothers Grimm. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Fables
