CANTON—Nursery rhymes are an oral and literary tradition that link us to the past and show the way language usage changes ...

Children look adorable when they recite nursery rhymes. While the pronunciation may not be clear or apt, the expressions of innocent kids can make up for the incorrect pronunciation most of the times.

The small format of Reinhart’s latest pop-up book belies the number of classic nursery rhymes he packs inside. A pop-up Humpty Dumpty falls from a red brick wall (and begins to crack up) as his spread ...

Need a nursery rhyme? Pick up The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes, illus. by Debi Gliori, and find one. Unique to this collection are the facts about the meanings behind the rhymes. For ...

“I Had A Little Nut Tree” is a British nursery rhyme from Tudor England that was first published in the book Newest Christmas Box in 1797. In his 1843 book The Nursery Rhymes of England, James Orchard ...

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?

A charity has defended using an alternative version of the popular children's nursery rhyme What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?, which removes alcohol and violence from the lyrics. The Scottish ...