AN INVESTIGATIVE TRAIL OF FAVOURITE NURSERY RHYMES
By Tim Devlin
Illustrated by Katarina Dragoslavić
 
This book is for all lovers of Mother Goose rhymes, young or old - or any age in-between. There’s a mystery about each of the 14 you will read about if you buy this book. Could it have been about a historical person or event?
Which king was in his parlour counting out his money? Why and when did London Bridge fall down? Who was my fair lady or indeed the fine lady on a white horse at Banbury Cross?
The clues to some of the rhymes are still there!
Come with me to the Hertfordshire home where Little Miss Muffet probably saw the spider; the grand house in Devon where Old Mother Hubbard had her cupboard; the cathedrals that bear possible clues to the identities of Dr Foster and Hickory Dickory Dock; the town once spattered with blood around which the lion beat the unicorn and the Somerset manor where it can be proved that Little Jack Horner was not a thief.