As 2007 kicks off, the quote of the day is from a wise man from many centuries ago. The quote is from the Usborne Books version of Aesop’s fables and comes from “The Busy Ant and the Singing Grasshopper”.
And so all the ants settled down to listen to the grasshopper sing. It was a beautiful [...]
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: the Reasons Behind the Rhymes is an exceedingly funny and entertaining book that tells the history of some of the most common nursery rhymes (London Bridge, Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty etc.).
So, while I absolutely love this book, I like the tale behind it even more. It was written by [...]
From the shockingly accurate children’s book It Could Have Been Worse:
It could have been much worse. (last page)
