{"id":2912,"date":"2015-04-30T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2015-04-30T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:09:33","slug":"the-farmer-in-the-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/the-farmer-in-the-dell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer in the Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2913\" src=\"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell.jpg\" alt=\"the-farmer-in-the-dell\" width=\"700\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell.jpg 990w, https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell-640x646.jpg 640w, https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell-150x152.jpg 150w, https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-farmer-in-the-dell-450x455.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Topp Twins (text), \u00a0 Jenny Cooper (illustrations),\u00a0<em>The Farmer in the Dell,<\/em>\u00a0Scholastic (NZ), \u00a01 December 2014, \u00a0$NZ 21.00(pbk), \u00a032pp., \u00a0ISBN 978-1-77543-195-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on nineteenth century folksong (most probably originating in Germany), the story of \u201c<em>The farmer in the dell<\/em>\u201d (and to an extent, a children\u2019s game that used to be played with it) has a courtship theme such that the farmer that takes the wife to the dell (or valley), the wife that takes the child, the child that takes the nurse, and the nurse that takes the cow; evokes something of the family hierarchy in those times. What the Topp Twins do with this song is, of course, excite the musical voice and imagination of the participating child. This is not a sit-on-the-couch-and-listen picture book, but either through the use of the enclosed CD or the strumming of a parent\/teacher\u2019s guitar, the child is invited to get up and dance! In that sense, it is a folksong that evokes a sense of community \u201cin the dell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The illustrations by Jenny Cooper are wonderfully quirky (it is a dog like a Great Dane that is strumming the guitar) with the dramatic use of comic exaggeration, cropping, frontal perspective and font style. Sure to please (and a good way to introduce<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_traditional_children%27s_games\" target=\"_blank\"> traditional games for children<\/a>. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p><em>reviewed by John Mckenzie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Topp Twins (text), \u00a0 Jenny Cooper (illustrations),\u00a0The Farmer in the Dell,\u00a0Scholastic (NZ), \u00a01 December 2014, \u00a0$NZ 21.00(pbk), \u00a032pp., \u00a0ISBN 978-1-77543-195-4 Based on nineteenth century folksong (most probably originating in Germany), the story of \u201cThe farmer in the dell\u201d (and to an extent, a children\u2019s game that used to be played with it) has a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[892,359,152,165],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Farmer in the Dell - Reading Time<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/readingtime.com.au\/the-farmer-in-the-dell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Farmer in the Dell - 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