Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Bogeyman Blair has the right ingredients for winning rhyme

This may be the way our children's children remember Mr Blair.
A sawdust spinning pizza salesman.
Perhaps I should write a Rumplestiltskin with him spinning straw into gold for King George.

"Baker Tony's Pizza, victorious in the nationwide Time for a New Rhyme contest run by the children's digital television channel Nick Jr, portrays Mr Blair as a baker creating deceptively-attractive pizzas of dye and sawdust that "made all the children cry".

The judges of the competition, who included the poet Michael Rosen and the television presenter Lorraine Kelly, thought that the rhyme's "political undertones" reflected the contemporary social criticism of many much older verses familiar from the cradle or the playground.">Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Bogeyman Blair has the right ingredients for winning rhyme: "'Baker Tony's Pizza,' victorious in the nationwide Time for a New Rhyme contest run by the children's digital television channel Nick Jr, portrays Mr Blair as a baker creating deceptively-attractive pizzas of dye and sawdust that 'made all the children cry'.

The judges of the competition, who included the poet Michael Rosen and the television presenter Lorraine Kelly, thought that the rhyme's 'political undertones' reflected the contemporary social criticism of many much older verses familiar from the cradle or the playground."