Silly Question – Just Look Up

Mom’s Garden – Children Help

A Teacup – A take Off

Gloomy Garden – Morbid Mary

Flower Faces – Drowned Dolls

Textual/Historical Information

http://www.rooneydesign.com/MaryMary.html Mary Mary Quite Contrary is a rhyme with multiple interpretations including those presented in this site.

http://tudorhistory.org/poetry/marymary.html Very brief reference to Mary Stuart

In a theater production of The Secret Garden [Books and Lyrics by Marsha Norman, Music by Lucy Simon and Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett] performed at The Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA the use of the nursery rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary occurred several times.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,421562,00.htmlA lengthy article on Mary Midgley by Andrew Brown of the Guardian . He wrote: "One moment she sits by her fire in Newcastle like a round-cheeked tabby cat; the next she is deploying a savage Oxonian precision of language to dissect some error as a cat dissects a living mouse."

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23155 A further exploration of Mary Midgley's thinking on science and religion.

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/algebra/Units/marymary.htm Fascinating approach to Algebraic exploration and creation of patterns.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp TheTomb of Mary Queen of Scots is
in Westminster Abbey. Mary was executed in 1587, and at first buried in Peterborough
Cathedral. James I brought the remains to Westminster Abbey in 1612.

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

Dahl, Roald. Rhyme Stew Unabridged . London : UK :1998 audiobook on cassette. [A collection of poems for children and adults in audiobook form, which includes Dahl's version of "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary."]

Hayes, Sarah. Mary Mary. Illustrated by Helen Craig.New York: Margaret McElderry Books/Macmillan, 1990.

Nursery Rhymes Pop-Up Book - Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Other Rhymes.
Leicester, UK : Grandreams Ltd, 1999.

Willebeek Le Mair, Henrietta. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. (Golden Days Nursery Rhymes) Golden Books, 2000.