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I decided to do my project over some nursery rhymes.  I choose a few different nursery rhymes after looking through The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright at Gutenberg.  It had so many different ones to choose from, I started out by picking a few favorites until I realized they all had something in common: the moon!

I think I will use the nursery rhymes as inspiration for a series of stories about the man in the moon.  He could even be the narrator, maybe having once been a great wizard who made his home in the sky.  I definitely have a lot of good ideas going!  The following are the three nursery rhymes I chose.

THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE

    Hey, diddle, diddle!
    The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
    The little dog laughed
    To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

OLD WOMAN, OLD WOMAN

There was an old woman tossed in a basket,
  Seventeen times as high as the moon;
But where she was going no mortal could tell,
  For under her arm she carried a broom.

"Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I,
  "Whither, oh whither, oh whither so high?"
"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky;
  And I'll be with you by-and-by."

THE MAN IN THE MOON

The Man in the Moon came tumbling down,
  And asked the way to Norwich;
He went by the south, and burnt his mouth
  With eating cold pease porridge.

The Man in the Moon from Scott Gustafson

Hey Diddle, Diddle from Galleryone