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"Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet .
Little Jack Horner 'Little Jack Horner sat in a corner' Great Britain 1791 [58] The earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. Little Miss Muffet 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet' United Kingdom 1805 [59] The rhyme first appeared in print in Songs for the Nursery. Little Robin Redbreast: Great Britain 1744 [60]
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles, written and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, is a 1945 picture book published by Simon & Schuster. The Rooster Crows was a Caldecott Medal winner for illustration in 1946. [ 1 ]
The book retells nursery rhymes such as Humpty Dumpty chatting with his doctor and Little Miss Muffet explaining 'curds and whey' to the spider. Other rhymes include Old Mother Hubbard, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Simple Simon, and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.
Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise are the latest characters to join the Mr Men Little Miss children’s book series, it has been announced. The two new stories will be published on September 12 ...
Note, however, that in his 2010 book At Home, Bill Bryson claims that all usages of the word tuffet to mean a piece of household furnishing are "presumption(s) based entirely on the venerable line 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet.'
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From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.