The Nut That Fell from the Tree

This is the house where Jill plays.

This is the oak that holds the house where Jill plays.

This is the nut that fell from the oak that holds the house where Jill plays …

In the style of “The House That Jack Built,” here’s a cumulative, rhyming tale that follows an acorn on an arduous journey, as one animal after another steals it, drops it or tosses it, sending the acorn inside an old shoe, high above the trees...