Here Comes a Chopper to Chop off Your Head Author: Liz Evers

ISBN: 9781784180133 Format: Hardcover Description: Today's parents are increasingly replacing nursery rhymes with the latest pop songs, and fairy tales - now thought too scary for little ones - with cute stories about farmyard animals and talking trains. Until recently, weird tales of fairy curses and flesh-eating ogres were considered suitable bedtime reading. And the strange-sounding and sometimes violent rhymes we rhymed off by rote were often taught to us in school. But have you ever asked yourself what on earth were they about? And what exactly were the morals and lessons we were meant to learn from them? Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head delves into the origins of the best-known rhymes and tales to uncover a legacy of folk superstition, rotten royal families, execution, child marriage, cannibalism, and the multitude of other random acts of cruelty that make up any classic treasury.

About the Author

Liz Evers is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. When a young niece first asked her to 'tell me a story - ' she started to wonder where all the peculiar tales and rhymes we share with children come from - and a quest to understand their origins began. Her previous books include titles on subjects as varied as Shakespeare, gallows humour, and time.

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