I read this book little by little.
Q1
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
what does your garden grow?
Spinich? Broccoli? Cauliflower?
To which Mary ansserd, "No!"
What is the silly part?
Does the questioner ask her the least favorite vegetables?
Q2
Peter, Peter, sugar eater,
always wanted food much sweeter.
Adding sugar was a blonder.
Now he is a toothles wonder.
Why the boy Peter is a toothles wonder?
He ate sweets too much, so his all teeth were gone by cavity?
Or luckily all his baby teeth have gone naturally without cavity to chane into adult teeth?
by Yuki
4 comments:
Hello! So the second one is just a rhyme. A boy liked to eat food that was super-sweet and as result he lost all his teeth. Sugar is very bad for teeth, right? SO he became a "toothless wonder". Wonder means "marvelous thing, the object of astonishment"- instead of having nice teeth he ended up with none! The little verse is easy to remember by children since it rhymes but it also may serve as a warning: if you eat too many sweets, you will lose your teeth and people will stare at you in an astonishment.
First one, seems like only part of the story... But: "Contrary" rhymes with "Mary". And "grow" rhymes with "no". Mary may not like those vegetables, indeed. But this is why I think it is only a part of the story- now it would make sense for her to say what she has in her garden instead of those three.
Oh, okay: I did google the rhyme about Mary! It makes more sense when one sees the original book illustration! They ask her what vegetables she grows in her garden and she says NO- and illustration shows lollipops and jelly beans (little candy). As a child, of course she would rather grow candy and sweets, and not vegetables! :)
thanks for your explain. I really understood it. I read into it too much thinking about baby teeth.
I have forgotten this is a picture book. As you said, the picture shows “no”. Thanks.
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