I've been trying to identify the rhymes depicted and have my 88 year old mother, my school librarian sister, and my children's literacy specialist sister arguing on the circled item.
The pictures seem to be close to scale in relationship to each other and are oriented the same direction.
I am really trying to see the Old Woman's shoe that Beth sees. She has sent this to her children's lit students and colleagues who are arguing about it!
Once this mystery is solved, what is the kid below the well doing? Drowning a cat?
And what nursery rhyme is where the woman hits a kid with a stick?
I believe it is the Old Woman in a Shoe too. It is said that the roof was a window. Although the bottom of the shoe is not well drawn. The "stick" coming out of the shoe would be the laces. The child drowning a cat reminds me of (I don't know it in English) a shepherd girl who had a cat and the cat ate all the cheese, or was it the milk. Anywho, it finishes with her killing the cat. As for the lady hitting a child, so many stories were teachers of life lessons in those days and it was an every thing to hit children back then. I'm sure you will find one that fits. So many things have changed since then. ;^)
ReplyDeleteI think most of the old nursery rhymes are banned for their violence! And we just thought they were neat because they rhymed. Times have changed for sure.
ReplyDeleteI think the boy and the cat is probably "Ding Dong Bell, Pussy's in the Well..." I don't see a shoe with the other thing.
ReplyDeleteThe Old Woman in the Shoe whipped her kids after she gave them some broth w/o any bread.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with P...Ding Dong Bell, Pussy's in the Well. That's either Johnny Thin ready to put the cat in or Tommy Stout who just pulled her out.
Interesting fabric. Very different from a few of the nursery rhyme ones I have!
It must be Johnny Stout. That cat looks traumatized, and ready to dry out.
ReplyDeleteCathy is spot on about the woman with the stick chasing the boy.
And how about this rhyme for the funky building?
THE CROOKED SIXPENCE
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence beside a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.