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Unlock Your Cell
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Imagine life sentenced to prison. No time to yourself to see the sun shining in the sky. Always under lock and key. No laughter or happiness to be found all around you. No smiles to be found in the cold prison life around you. This is a world without literature. The very basis of literature is not some complex document that master scholars are only allowed to read. In fact, the cornerstones of literature are the small rhymes and tales past down from generation to generation many years ago that were finally written down as The Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes. “This is the key to the kingdom,” says one of these old rhymes...for here is the dawn of humor and imagination; the first appreciation of the bite, beauty and bounce of the words, and the earliest evocation of the sad magic of the human condition. To all these kingdoms, Mother Goose is the key (17). The key to your jail cell lies inside the Mother Goose nursery rhythms. The very beginning of imagination lies in the Mother Goose stories and tales. Children first learn appreciation for words and imagination and beauty through these great works Poetry comes first to children when it is read and sung to them by adults (15).
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