Little Jack Horner facts for kids
"Little Jack Horner" is a popular English language nursery rhyme that was first mentioned in the 18th century.
Lyrics and melody
The song’s most common lyrics are:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, "What a good boy am I!"
It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle, which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791.
The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870).
Images for kids
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The original melody, 1877
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The game of Little Jack Horner, marketed by the McLoughlin Brothers in 1888
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The rhyme used as the basis for a cartoon about a Japanese naval victory in the Russo-Japanese War
See also
In Spanish: Pequeño Jack Horner para niños
