Funny Nursery Rhymes

Charlie loves to rhyme, which of course made everything just perfect the day he met the Yums.

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This page is dedicated to, nursery rhymes child rhyme and learn rhyme as part of my,‘Write 4 Kids’, program.

A lot of my friends ask.

Hey Jonnie, how'd you do it? How'd you make it all ryhme like that?

The answer to that one is of course, with great difficulty!

When I first came up with the concept for, ‘Charlie and the Yums’, I thought. Wouldn’t it be great to have Charlie’s friends, ‘The Yums’, constantly talking and singing in funny nursery rhymes style, I could make it all so much funnier.

Funny nursery rhymes, good idea? Well I thought so until I actually got started.

The problem I now faced was, how do I integrate funny nursery rhymes style speech into everything the Yums say whilst keeping it both sensible, and amusing.

Sometimes it was easy and I’d find immediate funny nursery rhymes for what I was looking for. But then there’d be times when I’d sit for hours pondering one suitable child rhyme at a time. Then I had a brain storm.

My learn rhyme Technique

Now this is going to sound very complicated and time consuming. But please bear with me and read on, as it really does work with funny nursery rhymes and saves you hours of frustration when you're stuck on an appropriate child rhyme to complete your sentence.

First of all, you need to think about what is actually going to be said, and which of your characters is going to say it. Then you need to think about how it fits into the story line. Then you have to make it appropriate for your chosen character's personality, perhaps funny, silly or sweet. Then you need the all important words that rhyme to put in it, the hard part!

The technique I finally developed for finding a suitable rhyme word is as follows.

First of all, I make a vertical A4 list of the alphabet on my P.C. Then I print it out.

Example

A

B

C

And so on….

Then I write the word/words I needed to find funny nursery rhymes for, at the top of the page.

(Example below of words I needed to rhyme for, ‘The Fabulous Sock’)

“Don’t you worry Mister Snail, for find your home we SHALL. Because everyone KNOWS, we’re the very best TOES, and we always help a PAL.”

Example

TOES - PAL

A

B

C

And so on…

Then I’d list all, the possible combinations next to their corresponding letters.

Examples you’d find for, Toes.

Toes = Bows – Doze – Foes – Goes – Hose – Knows – etc.

In some cases, with some of the letters, you won’t find anything to rhyme, so just write the ones you can think of next to each letter on the list. Sometimes you’ll even find more than one choice of word per letter, this makes life a lot easier.

Choose the most appropriate words you find from your list and start building different sentences around them. In some cases you’ll need more than one rhyme word, depending of course on the length of the sentence, like the example above has two sets. In this case, just repeat the process.

Sometimes after going through the whole alphabet, you’ll find no possible rhyme, you simply have to accept this and change your initial choice of word or scrap the sentence altogether.

It won’t come to you in a flash, but stick with it and keep playing on words until you get the hang of it. It took me nine weeks to write, ‘The Fabulous Sock’, but only six to write Charlie’s second adventure, ‘The Cheeky, Chunky, Singing Pirates’, and it’s actually longer and a lot funnier. I’ve written five books in the series so far and they just keep getting easier.

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Well there you have it. But a word of caution for those setting out as I did. To write child rhyme or indeed a rhyme book for kids, takes at least two or three times longer than an ordinary children’s story and I think you definitely need a flair for it. So, try it first and see if you can make it work for you.

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