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 most impressive part of Nursery Rhyme Comics might be its editor’s Rolodex. The book consists of 50 time-honored rhymes interpreted by some of the most popular and respected cartoonists in the ...

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 ...

While many of the nursery rhymes that have lulled children to sleep for hundreds of years have murky origins or meanings, Willow Glen couple Todd and Jackie Courtney recently published a series of ...

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 ...

The babes of former generations were certainly lucky, for they possessed quite the best book of nursery rhymes which has ever been published. "The Nursery Rhyme Book" by Andrew Lang and illustrated by ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the UC Davis Library accepted a gracious donation of more than 2,250 books about food from book collector and author Judith Herman. The donation includes books published as early as ...

While many of the nursery rhymes that have lulled children to sleep for hundreds of years have murky origins or meanings, Willow Glen couple Todd and Jackie Courtney recently published a series of ...