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Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it?

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In article <7cef87fb-06b9-4830-9ebe-ff27e1c02ac7@googlegroups.com>,
 <lenona321@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The author, Frederick Winsor (1900-1958) was an architect from MIT. The
>illustrator, Marian Parry, is 92 and lives in Cambridge, Mass. It was
>reprinted in 2001.
>
>The book includes a glossary at the end, even though it should have been
>a bit longer. One rhyme is based, not on a Mother Goose rhyme, but on
>the Eugene Field rhyme "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat" ("The
>Hydrogen Dog and the Cobalt Cat"). Then there are others that seem not
>to be based on anything!
>
>First rhyme:
>
>Probable-Possible, my black hen
>She lays eggs in the relative when
>She doesn't lay eggs in the positive now
>Because she's unable to postulate how.
>
>(Later, there are French and German translations of that same rhyme.
>Plus Greek-style, Swahili-style, and Chinese-style twists and English
>translations, with different words.)
>
> 
>
>Flappity, floppity, flip 
>The mouse on the Moebius strip 
>The strip revolved 
>The mouse dissolved 
>In a chrono-dimensional skip.
>
>
>Little Jack Horner
>Sits in a corner
>Extracting cube roots to infinity,
>An assignment for boys
>That will minimize noise
>And produce a more peaceful vicinity.
>
>
>Little Miss Muffet
>Sits on her tuffet
>In a nonchalant sort of a way.
>With her force field around her
>The spider, the bounder,
>Is not in the picture today.
>
>
>Little Bo Peep
>Has lost her sheep,
>The radar has failed to find them.
>They'll all, face to face,
>Meet in parallel space,
>Preceding their leaders behind them.
>
>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
>At three o'clock he had his great fall.
>The King set the Time Machine back to two.
>Now Humpty's unscrambled and good as new.
>
>
>This is the way the Physicist rides:
>A quantum, a quantum, a quantum.
>
>This is the way the Agronomist rides:
>I plant 'em, I plant 'em, I plant 'em.
>
>This is the way the Philosopher rides:
>O Plato! O Plato! O Plato!
>
>This is the way the Rocketman rides:
>JATO! JATO!! JATO!!!
>
>
>Quantum: The quantum is only a tittle or jot:
>On a little theory hangs a lot.
>
>
>And here's Winsor's version of "The House that Jack Built"! Bet you'll love it.
>
>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/881
>
>http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/07/space-childs-mother-goose-for-poetry.html
> (blog on it)
>
>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818211.The_Space_Child_s_Mother_Goose
> (reader reviews)
>
>https://www.google.com/search?q=space+child%27s+mother+goose&rlz=1C1VFKB_enUS694US694&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=923&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivppKYvfrMAhUCGz4KHZt8BVUQ_AUIBygC&dpr=1#imgrc=_
> (pictures)
> 
>
>https://www.facebook.com/SpaceChildBook/ 
>

Yup, I've had a copy for lo these many years.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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"Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? lenona321@yahoo.com - 2016-05-27 07:55 -0700
  Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-05-27 08:50 -0700
    Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? lenona321@yahoo.com - 2016-05-28 09:49 -0700
  Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-05-27 23:59 +0000
    Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-10 02:32 +0000
      Re: "Space Child's Mother Goose" (1956) - do you know it? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 04:25 +0000

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