Love of numbers is common in childhood -- and traditional nursery rhymes offer chances to know numbers as playmates and friends. "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie . . . The king was in his counting house . . ." and so on. In "The Story of the Ten Blackbirds" poet Millicent Accardi combines a portrait of an amazing story-telling aunt with a collage of childhood memories, counted and remembered.
The Story of the Ten Blackbirds by Millicent Borges Accardi
Blended at times into
The three little pigs
Or the Catholic Saints.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
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