The British Library holds this 1744 book of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, which was sold in London and is the oldest surviving published collection in the genre. Some of the rhymes ...

HARBOR SPRINGS, MICH. -- Fittingly, the idea to marry children’s nursery rhymes with constellations in the night sky came to author Mary Stewart Adams while waking from a dream. Sparked by learning a ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Virginia State University (VSU) professor’s new book, “Nursery Rhymes in Black,” has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The University of Alaska Press nominated ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...

This is the first post in a new blog series about encouraging a love of language in young children written by professional storyteller Peter Burns. Many years ago, just after my daughter Alice was ...

Jack and Jill went up in the hill anxious to lose their virginity, according to a social historian who has published a book documenting the real stories behind the nation's favourite nursery rhymes.

Baba Baa is a solo enterprise started by Lee Jiun, a Malaysian mother of two living abroad. She currently creates and sells children’s button song books with a focus on Malaysian, Indonesian, and ...