Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a short rhyming story, often set to music and usually designed for young children, such as those in a nursery. Songs for children are a part of many cultures, and they often serve as an oral record of important political and historical events. They also can preserve archaic forms of language. In the English language, the bulk of commonly used nursery rhymes date from the 16th-18th centuries, with some originating in Europe and others, such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb," coming from North America.

For example,

1. Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

Sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty

Had a great fall.

All the King’s horses,

And all the King’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty in "Puss in Boots"

2. Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon.

The little dog laughed to see such fun

And the dish ran away with the spoon!

Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a popular nursery rhyme

3. Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory, dickory, dock.

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

The mouse ran down,

Hickory, dickory, dock.

Hickety Dickety Dock, illustrated by Denslow

4. Richard Scarry's Best Sing Along Mother Goose Video Ever!

Star Light, Star Bright

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Old Mother Hubbard

Little Bo Peep

Hey Diddle Diddle

Little Miss Muffet

Humpty Dumpty

Hickory Dickory Dock

Three Little Kittens

Little Boy Blue

There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Wee Willie Winkle

Old King Cole

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Sleep Baby Sleep

Main character: Huckle

Conflicts: Where is lowly? What does he looks like?

Climax: Old kinf cole describes lowly correctly

Theme: friendship/lost and found/dream/adventure/magic/spell/describing/sorting(a long and thin worm with green hat, one shoe)

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Etymology

* -hood: indicating state or condition of being. e.g., manhood, adulthood

* -hood: indicating a body of persons. e.g., knighthood, priesthood

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Born in North Carolina, the sixth child of a preacher, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist, but was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition, because she was black. To fund her musical education and become a classical pianist, she began playing at a small club in Atlantic City.

Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".

Her musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

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Here Comes the Sun

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I Loves You, Porgy

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist.

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Moon River

The line, "My huckleberry friend" is often thought to be a reference to Huckleberry Finn, a character in Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer. However, in his autobiography, Johnny Mercer said it was in reference to a childhood friend of his. He used to pick huckleberries with him down by a lazy river near his home in Georgia.

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p.s. Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)  is a 1961 American romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.