Directory of Rhymes Resources

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This category is for rhymes such as ball-bouncing rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, finger and toe rhymes, dandling rhymes (to bounce children on the knee), counting-out rhymes (to determine who will be "it" in games), and nursery rhymes. Rhyme is a basic stylistic device of verbal folklore, found in such genres as folk poetry, rhyming proverbs and riddles, games, and tales.

Subcategories

• Nursery
• Tongue Twisters
• Triads

Resources in This Category

• BBB is for BBBear

  http://www.kith.org/logos/words/upper3/BBBear.html
  An overview of rhythmic and/or rhyming schoolyard folklore.

• Jump Rope Rhymes

  http://www.gameskidsplay.net/jump_rope_ryhmes/
  Large collection of folk rhymes that American children chant while skipping rope and playing patty-cake.

• Jump Rope Rhymes

  http://www.aacs.wnyric.org/donius/jump_rope/rhymes.html
  Collection of jump rope rhymes.

• The Chinese Boy and Girl

  http://www.romanization.com/books/childrensgames/
  Describing Chinese children's nursery rhymes, games, toys, and tales, by Isaac Taylor Headland (1901).

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