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mater anserina: Poems in Latin for Children

Mater Anserina

Poems in Latin for Children, with audio CD

Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg

2006 • 1-58510-193-1 • hardcover with audio CD • 68 pages • 6 x 9 • $24.95

Mater Anserina is a delightful book of twenty-eight poems, many of them favorites from Mother Goose, rendered in Latin, with the English translation on facing pages. Designated specifically for early learners of Latin, the nursery rhymes are designed for reciting or singing, with the particular aim of giving young students an introduction to Latin pronunciation. The book comes with an audio CD of all rhymes in the book sung by William Du Casse and the authors. A set of 4 posters is also available.

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 Description                                               

Mater Anserina is a delightful book of twenty-eight poems, many of them favorites from Mother Goose, rendered in Latin, with the English translation on facing pages. Designated specifically for early learners of Latin, the nursery rhymes are designed for reciting or singing, with the particular aim of giving young students an introduction to Latin pronunciation. The book comes with an audio CD of all rhymes in the book.

 Authors                                                     

Milena Minkova teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. She has previously written a manual for Latin Prose Composition, as well as books on Latin inscriptions, and on the meaning of ‘ratio’ in medieval Latin.

Terence Tunberg teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. He has won international prizes in Latin Composition. He has published on Ciceronianism, and edited Latin texts. He has also translated stories by Dr. Seuss and other children’s books into Latin.

 Table of Contents                                     

Preface
Hey, diddle, diddle / Somnium fallit
Mary had a little lamb / Agnicellum habuit Maria
Twinkle, twinkle, little star / Splende, splende, stellula
Little Miss Muffet / De parvula Bella
Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush / Circa fruticem mororum
Itsy bitsy spider / De parva aranea textrice
It’s raining, it’s pouring / Non imber abivit
Hot cross buns / Crustula decussata
Jack and Jill / De Iuliana et de Ioanne
Little Bo Peep / De garrula parvula
Little Boy Blue / De puerulo coloris caerulei
Georgie Porgie / De Georgio
Humpty Dumpty / De Humphrido Dumphrido
Hickory, dickory, dock / Vox horarum
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake / Massam depsas
Ride a cock-horse / Equita Bannavenum
She’ll be coming round the mountain / Circa montem ducetur
Ring a-round the roses / Rosas circum ite
Doctor Foster / De medico Festo
Star light, star bright / Stellula princeps
What are little boys made of?…What are little girls made of? / Unde pueruli et puellulae facti?
Simple Simon / De Sardo Bardo
Hush, little baby / Tace infans!
One, two, buckle my shoe / Semel, bis…
Pussy cat, pussy cat / O, feles, feles
A man in the wilderness / Aenigma
Oh, the grand old Duke of York / De duce Eboracensi
Yankee Doodle / En Americanus huc equitavit
A Guide to the Audio CD

 Ancillaries                                                

Set of 4 Posters • 2006 • 978-1-58510-242-6 • 4 posters • 11 x 17 • $24.95

Full color posters for Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, Ring a-round the Roses, and Humpty Dumpty. Each poster has the image from the book along with the Latin version of the poem.