Book: Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose, Nursery Rhyme: There was a Crooked Man, New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985, page 24. Grades K-3
The crooked man was surrounded by all that was crooked including his house and cat who also caught crooked mice. This story is directed to attract a young child’s attention with its poetic and rhyming words and descriptive, colorful illustrations of the crooked man and his slightly unusual life.
Activity:
1. For an activity with young children I would read it with them and have them identify the words that rhyme. Then I would have them change the words around or find other rhyming words. They can even write another nursery rhyme about the crooked man or expand on this one. For example: What else could the crooked man have?
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