Scare young children and intimidate their parents when you take the humble nursery rhyme and transform it into a display of linguistic acrobatics. Why use one world when ten will do? If you want to sound as though you've swallowed a dictionary, here are 100 nursery rhymes and their verbose translations to memorise and regurigitate at all children's parties.
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Michael Powell is the author of several books both for children and adults, including High Society published by Prion in May 2002. Before becoming a writer he trained at RADA and spent several years as an internationally unknown actor and musical director. He lives with his wife and two children in Somerset.
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