to eat as well as marmalade, honey, and large amounts of porridge, as they have the same effect as drugs. Nursery rhyme/literary references Jack Sprat Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary The Gingerbread Man Goldilocks and the Three Bears Peter Piper Prometheus The Tempest Punch and Judy "The Quangle-Wangle's Hat" by Edward Lear Thursday Next Struwwelpeter Dorian Gray The Fall of the House of Usher External links Fforde Grand Central The official Nursery Crime Division website The Fourth Bear Special Features Novels by Jasper Fforde 2006 British novels British fantasy novels Metafictional novels 2006 fantasy novels Novels set in Berkshire Hodder & Stoughton books Works based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears