Introduction - King Cole illustrations

Big Fiddle - Pilgrim Cole

A Balancing Act - Cole’s on the ball

Royal Couch - Potato Satiated king

Dapper King - Roaring twenties

Christmas Cole - Fiddling angels

Oddly Amusing - Ironic athlete

Textual/Historical

http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/coelhnt.html Coel Hen or Coel the Old is known to most of us through the famous nursery rhyme "Old King Cole."

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Old_King_Cole This presents some alternatives in thinking about Old King Cole and origins.

http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1442.html Read a poem by Edward Arlington Robinson called "Old King Cole."

http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/years/1933/oldkingcole.html Disney production of "Old King Cole" in 1933 based on earlier "Mother Goose Melodies" produced in 1931.

http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/ Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/youth/stspta5.htm Health effects of smoking on young people presents a series of facts for young teens.

http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html Fact Sheet for the UK on smoking and young people. Although directed to British youth the strength of the report lies in it universal applicability.

Versions 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 within Eclipse

Rhyme Specific Bibliography

Briggs, Raymond. The Mother Goose Treasury . New York : Coward-McCann, 1966, p. 147.

Hill, C.F. The Truth About Old King Cole: And Other Very Natural Histories . Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London , England : Frederick Warne and Co., 1931, Frontispiece. {Originally published in 1910, reprinted with alterations and additions in 1931.]

James Marshall's Mother Goose . New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979.

Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery Rhymes . New York : Knopf, 1975.