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 ...

Diz Wallis selects and illustrates a keepsake collection of 100 classics for the youngest audience, Ragged Bear's Nursery Rhymes. Along with ""Little Miss Muffett,"" ""Rub-a-Dub-Dub"" and ""Mary, Mary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We caught up with renaissance man Gris Grimly during the recent Monsterpalooza in Pasadena, and he let us know that the third installment of his Wicked Nursery Rhymes books is now available from Baby ...

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 ...

Choose me a nursery rhyme! If you're not sure what rhyme to sing or want to learn some new ones, try answering a few questions and let us choose. Why do we sing traditional nursery rhymes? Find out ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...