Does anyone remember this book, it was a kids book, filled with kinda odd nursery rhymes and superstitions. i read it when i was in the fifth grade, at the library, and can’t find it anywhere…i was in the fifth grade around 1984-85…but i think the book was kinda old by then. there was another book, by the same people, but i can’t even begin to remember the name of it…
as far as i can remember the book was called “Hodgepodge and other things”
one of the poems inside went something like this
“roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you…BUT, the roses are wilted the viloets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head”
i would appreciate any and all help
thanks
Duncan Emrich wrote (well, collected the material for) the Hodgepodge Book, along with a number of other folklore collections.
When I was a kid, I checked Emrich’s Hodgepodge Book, the Whim-Wham Book, and the Nonsense Book out of the library about a hundred times each. They all feature nonsense, jokes, riddles, rhymes, jump rope counts, superstitions, and too much other stuff to keep track of.
IIRC, they were all published in the early 1970s.
Duncan Emrich wrote (well, collected the material for) the Hodgepodge Book, along with a number of other folklore collections.
When I was a kid, I checked Emrich’s Hodgepodge Book, the Whim-Wham Book, and the Nonsense Book out of the library about a hundred times each. They all feature nonsense, jokes, riddles, rhymes, jump rope counts, superstitions, and too much other stuff to keep track of.
IIRC, they were all published in the early 1970s.