Editing Hey Diddle Diddle (section)

==In fiction==
In [[L. Frank Baum]]'s "Mother Goose in Prose", the rhyme was written by a farm boy named Bobby who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the Moon's reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into the brook.

In [[P. L. Travers]]'s first ''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]'' book, the titular character tells the children more about a cow they notice in the street, namely that she once jumped over the Moon to cure her dancing affliction, as advised by a king, who references an already-existing story of "the Cow Who Jumped over the Moon".

In [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]’s ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', the rhyme is said to be a remnant of "[[The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late]]", a much longer narrative poem written by the character [[Bilbo Baggins]].