Nursery rhymes linger in our minds our entire lives; they are repeated to us at an early age and remain in our subconscious longer than commercial jingles. What makes Mother Goose so memorable? Surely it is not the content of the nonsensical poems: young children not care about the content of a nursery rhyme, and toddlers are incapable of grasping it. Nursery rhymes are not like fairy tales: they do

For instance, in Jacob Have I Loved, a twin comes of age in the 1940s, and finds that she indeed can make ordinary life more than extraordinary. Realistic fiction also tends to be more contemporary in tone, connecting with issues that are relevant to contemporary family situations. Issues such as divorce, dysfunctional families, adoptions, etc. are dealt with in a serious and relevant manner; in On My Honor, a

The hungry birds in the sky pecked away at the bread. The presence of the birds was an independent event unrelated to the travails of the children: it could not be foreseen and would have not made getting loss more or less probable if Hansel had used stones. But with bread, alas, that was not the case. "Don't the leaves of the trees look strange?" said Gretel. The conifers of

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Summarize Henry Petroski’s “Falling Down is Part of Growing Up” explains one of the most obvious but easily overlooked lessons in life: that mistakes, failures, and faults become the keys to learning, growth, and development. The title of the essay references the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down.” Petroski claims that this nursery rhyme also serves as a means of subtly reminding children that even the most remarkable feats of