How Many Miles to Babylon?

Visual Interpretations

A Bicycle Outing Is this strange family really going to Babylon?

Welcome Home! Could the seagull be signaling the end of a hazardous journey?

Dancing or Fleeing? Why are these two lines of girls going in opposite directions?

Off to Ancient Worlds? Is the desert a fit habitat for these rabbits?

Frozen in Mid-Step How did he get into such an awkward position?

Textual/Historical Information

Historical Conjectures What does it mean?

Failing Christian duty? Off to Babylon

As a Game? Traditional approaches to the rhyme

Further Clarification Another game

Thread the Needle Game Under the arch

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

Granfa’ Grig had a Pig: And Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose. Compiled and Illustrated by Wallace Tripp. Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co., 1976.

My Very First Mother Goose. Edited by Iona Opie; Illustrated by Rosemary Wells. Cambridge Ma: Candlewick Press, 1996.