Historian Robert Lacey’s new book Nursery Rhymes with Pictures—in which he showcases 82 nursery rhymes originally illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser in the early 20th century—is a significant departure ...

WAYNESBURG – “Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock,” and so it went recently at a meeting of the Cornerstone Genealogical Society in the log courthouse on Greene Street. The meeting began ...

Lullaby World’s peppy playlist — Ultimate Nursery Rhymes Collection — is the perfect listen for November 14 a.k.a Children’s Day. Whether you’re looking forward to an afternoon of reminiscing about ...

Generations of children have learnt from nursery rhymes how to count, tell the time, name different colours and shapes – all sorts of things. And because the words are easy to remember, they love to ...

Jack Sprat first appears in print around 1569—it cropped up twice in an anonymously published morality play titled The Marriage of Wit and Science: “Heard you ever such a counsel of such a Jack sprat?

Edited by Chris Duffy, intro. by Leonard S. Marcus. Roaring Brook/First Second, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59643-600-8 In this easy-to-read and fun to read aloud collection, classic nursery rhymes get a ...

As evening sets in and parents put their children to bed, many resort to singing nursery rhymes to lull them off to sleep. But nursery rhymes are not just a good way of calming your kids, they also ...

Sing a Song of Sixpence, an eerie nursery rhyme where blackbirds are baked into a pie and a maid gets her nose cut off, has several dark readings. The simple rhymes and songs we know courtesy of ...

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 ...

Nursery Rhymes starring Isla St Clair, Floella Benjamin, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr, and a scheduled release date of March 31st, 2005. It received a ...