Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is an English nursery rhyme first published in the early 19th century. No clear origin of the poem is known, and it is theorized that the pumpkin could be an alteration made to an earlier poem for an American audience.

Adaptations

• Mother Goose Stories used the rhyme as the basis for an episode of the series. (Episode 30: Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater)

References

• Baby Kermit and Baby Piggy took on the roles of Peter and his wife in the book Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes.

• The Muppet Babies take on the rhyme again in the Big Book of Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales.

• Shadow tells the story of Peter in the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Falling for Fall."