You Read to Me, I'll Read to You You Read to Me, I'll Read to You You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together is the third book in the "You Read to Me, I'll Read to You" series. It is written by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Michael Emberley. The book is retellings of nursery rhymes. It has retellings such as Humpty Dumpty chatting with his doctor and Little Miss Muffet explaining 'curds and whey' to the spider. Other rhymes include "Old Mother Hubbard", "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater", "Simple Simon", and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". It was reviewed
Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs" (1870). The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266. The phrase "Jack and Jill" was in use in England as early as the 16th century to indicate a boy and a girl. A comedy with the title "Jack