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KidsBookely, Issue #05: Does Anyone Know Who Wrote This? October 08, 2020 |
KidsbookelyIssue 05: Does Anyone Know Who wrote this?ContentsDoes Anyone Know Who Wrote This?
Does Anyone Know Who Wrote This?
Little Miss Muffet
It's a delightful parody that I read years ago, and for the life of me I can't track it down again, or find the author's name. If you've come across it yourself and can point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful :)
NewsThe Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear Book One, is now complete and the ebook is available for pre-order. Here's a Universal Book Link. The Fifth Line is a new take on every verse in A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear. Along with the new limericks, it contains all of Lear's originals - 224 limericks altogether. The paperback is available now on Amazon, but only by accident. I'm trying to push it back for the 2 November launch. And Sascha Martin's Superball is still on the way :)
Inactivities
Though I've finished the limericks how-to,
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In the meantime, two colouring pages -
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Fun Fact
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, wrote A Child's Garden of Verses and several more volumes of poetry. He not only turned his pen to the limerick, but wrote one After Lear:
There was an old man of the Cape,
Last Month's SolutionsThe solutions to last month's Crossword Puzzle, Word Search and Word Scramble and One for the Grown-Ups are here in a downloadable PDF.
Thanks for ReadingThat's it for Kidsbookely Issue 05.Please let me know what you think. Feel free to reply to this email, or to contact me any time using the contact form. John Arthur Nichol PS: If you liked this issue of Kidsbookely and you know someone who might also enjoy it, please feel very welcome to forward this email to them.
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