Wee Willie Winkie (disambiguation)

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Wee Willie Winkie is a nursery rhyme. It may also refer to:

Wee Willie Winkie 1841 poem and nursery rhyme

"Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.

<i>Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories</i> book by Rudyard Kipling

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<i>Wee Willie Winkie</i> (film) 1937 film by John Ford

Wee Willie Winkie is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Ford and starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, and Cesar Romero. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Ernest Pascal was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. The film's story concerns the British presence in 19th-century India. The production was filmed largely at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, where a number of elaborate sets were built for the movie.

Treasure was a British educational magazine for young children published by Fleetway Publications which ran for 418 issues published between 19 January 1963 and 16 January 1971. The editor was Arthur Bouchier.

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<i>The Kin-der-Kids</i> comic strip

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