An Early Version The home of a haughty English
gentleman
The Rebus Version Another proud homeowner
Caribbean Flavor Did he build it for his lady?
The House on the Hill A simple and simply placed
house
The Haphazard House No wonder it’s for sale!
Not a House But a Theory The rhyme with new reason
A Precise Plan for Construction An elegant world
within
Jack Building in Counterpoint Colonizing New Zealand
The House That Crack
Built Features contemporary hip hop or rap rhythms and powerful
images to trace those involved in the drug trade and to emphasize that
all of society is affected by and forced to "live in the house
that crack built."
This Is the Hut That Jack Built in Australia : ( Calvert's
Australian picture books. Melbourne : Calvert, [c.1871] ) An animated
toy book presented with images and sound from the late 19 th century,
now housed in the State Library of Victoria. http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/collections/treasures/hutjackbuilt1.html
The Political House that Jack Built: 1819
This political pamphlet, published by John Hone, followed the events
of the Peterloo Massacre on 16 August 1819. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/distress/jack.htm
The Political House that Jack Built by William Hone with engravings
by George Cruikshank. (hypertext version) http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/hone/coverp.htm
Edward A. Shanken. “The House That Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of "Software" as a Metaphor for Art” http://www.duke.edu/~giftwrap/House.html
The House that Jack Built lantern slides. The Junior Lecturers Series was produced by W. Butcher & Sons, London (1870-1906) under the trade name of Primus. The slides were sold as a set of eight in a cardboard box. The prize of each set was initially about two shillings but at the end of World War I the price had more than doubled. Size of the slides: 8,3 x 8,3 cm (3 1/4" x 3 1/4"). http://www.luikerwaal.com/newframe_uk.htm?/catalogus_primus_uk.htm
Eleven pen and ink drawings illustrating this tale by MIchael Bolan. Rendered in finely detailed pen & ink. http://www.michaelmade.com/html/jack.html
A facsimile page of the maiden presented in Professor Vandergrift’s
Facsimile page: The Remarkable History of the House That Jack Built:
Splendidly Illustrated and Magnificently Illuminated by A Son of Genius.
London: Scolar Press, 1978. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/toy23.html
Andrews-Coebel, Nancy. The Pot That Juan Built. Illus. by
David Diaz. New York: Lee & Low, 2002.
Scieszka, Jon. The Book That Jack Wrote. Illus. by Daniel
Adel. New York: Viking, 1994.
Taylor, Clark. The House That Crack Built. Illus. by Jan Thompson
Dicks. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1992.
Underhill, Liz. This Is the House That Jack Built. New York:
Henry Holt, 1987.
Winter, Jeanette. The House That Jack Built. London, UK: Penguin/Puffin
Books, 2003.
