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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Lewis Carroll (Creator)|Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Through the LookingAlice Glassin (Literature)Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]'', Alice meets up with Humpty Dumpty himself and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Resulting in her being quite [[Genre Savvy]]: she knows that the king has promised to send all his horses and men to help Humpty Dumpty, and she awaits the [[Ravens and Crows|crow]] with great anticipation, to break up the fight.
* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] wrote several "expanded" versions of nursery rhymes, filling in background to make them "reasonable". He attributed them to Bilbo and put one -- from "Hey diddle diddle" -- in Frodo's mouth in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.
** His rendition of "Hey, diddle diddle" is, in fact, a drinking song. [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|The musical]] does a rendition of it.
* Jack Spratt of Jasper Fforde's ''[[Nursery Crime]]'' books is himself a nursery rhyme figure and runs across several others. (Though his ambit includes [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]] as well.)
* Mrs. Wren in [[John C. Wright]]'s ''Chronicles of Chaos'' makes use of rhymes as enchantments. Taffy ap Cyrmu, in the same work, takes his name from one: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief."
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]'', nursery rhymes contain great secrets. One character jeers at the way ordinary people recite them to babies.
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story "The Case of the Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds" humorously places Mother Goose characters in a parody of crime noir, as "Little" Jack Horner, private eye, attempts to solve the murder of Humpty Dumpty.
* In [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''Deep Secret'', one of the Deep Secrets of the title is hidden in a nursery rhyme, and the hero has to interpret it in order to save the [[Love Interest]]'s life.
* [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] titled several novels after nursery rhymes. In ''A Pocket Full of Rye'', and more famously ''And Then There Were None'', victims are murdered in the manner of a nursery rhyme.
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s [[Allie Beckstrom (Literature)|Allie Beckstrom]] novel ''Magic to the Bone'', Allie uses "Miss Mary Mack" as her mantra
 
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