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exhibition and receive a special sticker.
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Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery are proud to present
Rhyme Around the World, a touring exhibition from
Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Books.
T
he learning team at Shropshire Museums and The Walker Trust are
delighted to be able to support your museum visit with our free Rhyme
Race booklet featuring a selection of rhymes from the exhibition for you
to learn and share.
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Rhymes get you moving
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Rhyming is infectious Change the words and create your own rhymes
Rhymes get you thinking
Discover unfamiliar words and talk about
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Rhymes are for sharing Read out loud and enjoy making new sounds
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I looked at him and sadly said:
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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
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Laugh, kookaburra. Laugh, kookaburra.
Gay your life must be.
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Mosquito One, Mosquito Two
image by Petrima Wright
Mosquito seven,
Mosquito eight,
Mosquito open de ol’ man gate.
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Mosquito two,
Mosquito jump in de callaloo.
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Mosquito nine,
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Polly Put the Kettle On
image by Harold Jones
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
They’re all gone away.
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I wish I may, I wish I might,
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Weeks and weeks and weeks
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It couldn’t float – it wouldn’t even
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And if this silly story doesn’t
Sink, sink, sink
We’ll have to tell it one more time,
I think, think, think.
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A pocket full of rye,
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Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
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The birds began to sing,
Was not that a dainty dish
To set before the king?
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The king was in his counting-house
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey;
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down flew a blackbird,
And pecked off her nose.
But there came a Jenny Wren
And popped it on again.
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Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
image by Jane Ray
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I’ve been to London to look at the queen,
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
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With thanks to:
The Walker Trust, Sarah McGlynn & Claire Teasdale
(Seven Stories), Sophie Peach, Joanna Hughes, Alison
McGowan (Shrewsbury Bookfest), Alison Rae (School’s
Improvement Commissioner Adviser Early Years
Foundation Stage), Sally Tonge (musician and storyteller),
Justine Ranson (Creative & Cultural Development Officer,
Telford & Wrekin Council), Amy Jones (Senior Librarian
– Health and Reading, Telford & Wrekin Council) Matt
Sewell, Nicola Dawson, Julie Duncan & Fiona Purslow.
Louise Chadwick, Button & Bear Bookshop
The Rhyme Around the World exhibition features the
rhymes and illustrations from two best-selling books – the
classic Lavender’s Blue complied by Kathleen Lines and
pictured by Harold Jones, Oxford University Press, 1954
(reissued 2004) and the contemporary Over the Hills and
Far Away collected by Elizabeth Hammill, Frances Lincoln
Children’s Books, 2014.
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