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Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
The poem has been described as "probably his most famous poem for kids". [4] In 1959, it inspired Leonard Lipton to write a poem that evolved into the song " Puff, the Magic Dragon ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This poem is written as a ballad which presents a short story with parody.
"Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem and song.The poem consists of four-line sung verses separated by some spoken words. The verses are sung to the tune of the French-Canadian children's song "Alouette" (1879), which is melodically similar to "Down by the Station" (1948) and the "Itsy Bitsy Spider". [1]
In the poem, Hughes describes the blue flannel suit Plath wore for her first day of teaching at Smith College in 1957, just prior to her 25th birthday. Plath had graduated from Smith in 1955 and returned there after attending Newnham College, Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship. While at Cambridge, she met Hughes, and they were living together ...
"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.
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From sugar-plums dancing in children’s heads to the jolly old elf exclaiming, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”, the poem first published in a Troy, New York, newspaper in ...
Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. [1] The poems are a sardonic critique of Victorian era upper class society. [2]