Hot Cross Buns!

Visual Interpretations

Real Crosses Religious symbols

Happy Children Delicious buns

Slight Caricature Many buns

Puzzlement What's happening here?

Singing Salesperson Satisfied customers

Three Pennies Waiting Buns still hot

Textual/Historical Information

Music Textual and musical variations and differences

Sample Teaching Questions Complex questions on the street peddler and the relationship to Christianity.

Recipe Opportunity to bake the buns

Religious Significance and connections

Verisons and Variants

Textual Versions and Variants - A complete listing of the versions and variants of this rhyme

Visual Versions and Variants - A comparative listing of all associated images within Eclipse

Rhyme Specific Bibliography

Attwater, Donald, editor. A Catholic Dictionary The Catholic Encyclopaedic Dictionary. 3rd edition. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

Eliade, Mircea and Ioan Couliano. The Eliade Guide to World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1991.

Emerson, Sally, selector. The Nursery Treasury: A Collection of Baby Games, Rhymes and Lullabies. Illustrated by Moira and Colin Maclean. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Gottlieb, Gerald. Early Children's Books and Their Illustration. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, 1975.

Larrick, Nancy, compiler. Songs From Mother Goose: With the Traditional Melody for Each. Illustrated by Robin Spowart. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Myers, Robert J. Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

McDonald, Margaret Read, editor. The Folklore of World Holidays. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

Torrey, Marjorie, illustrator. Sing Mother Goose. Music by Opal Wheeler. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1945.

Weiser, Francis X. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs: The Year of the Lord in Liturgy and Folklore. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1952.