Nursery rhyme rhymes became associated with the idea of political correctness. Most attempts to reform nursery rhymes on this basis appear to be either very small scale, light-hearted updating, like Felix Dennis's "When Jack Sued Jill – Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times" (2006), or satires written as if from the point of view of political correctness in order to condemn reform. The controversy in Britain in 1986 over changing the language of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" because, it was alleged in the popular press, it was seen as racially dubious, was apparently based only on a rewriting of the rhyme in one
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes State University of New York at Plattsburgh argues in "Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code" that the charm of "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes" lies in the illustrations rather than the text, and that the book (like other nursery rhyme collections) is not a sustained narrative but a series of short verses. Such collections are typically unified in style and design, but "Appley Dapply" lacks this unity because the illustrations range over a number of years in which Potter's style changed significantly. The illustrations for the opening verse about Appley Dapply, for example, date from 1891 and reveal an artist with an