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 ...

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 ...

Medleys from our Nursery Rhymes collection: 60 minute, 30 minute and 20 minute medleys; lullabies and sleep-time songs; action songs; counting songs; and other medleys including CBeebies presenters ...

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 ...

1. The term nursery rhyme derives from the 1806 book Rhymes For The Nursery by Jane and Ann Taylor. 2. The Taylor sisters wrote Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star under the title The Star. Article continues ...

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 ...