Reading Week 13: Nursery Rhymes part A

The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang

My idea for my story is to have my main character land in a word of nursery rhymes and meets all of the characters.  so my notes will be mainly around the main characters and their situations

Tales:
the man in the moon

babes in the wood DIED WHAT??  They were stolen and died.  Why is this a nursery rhyme??

the crooked man, who had a crooked house and cat and mouse

Simple Simon

The lion and the unicorn were fighting fro the crown.  It seems the lion won. 

Tom the piper's son stole a pig, ate him, and was beat for it

My lady Wind set the house on fire

Taffy was a Welshman, and he stole things

Litttle Jack Horner

Solomon Grundy, the poem makes it seem like he lived only a week

Proverbs:
The characters need to speak in the nursery rhyme proverbs

Monday's Child is one of my favorite poems.  I definitely want to include it in my story

For want of a nail, aka a kingdom can be lost over the smallest detail

March winds and april showers, bring forth may flowers aka you need the bad before the good

Songs:

Little bo-peep
sing a song of sixpence
Tom, the pipers son (because tom has two stories, i could include both in my story)
The queen of hearts

Riddles:
Characters asking different riddles to the main character could add to the main character's confusion in the story book
 Paradoxes:
these rhymes are contradictory, and funny.  A character acting those out would look very silly. 

Charms and Lullabies:
Ending the story with the main characters going to sleep with one of these lullabies

Games:
Here sits lord mayor is a good riddle to use

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