Rhymes which have been passed down from parent to child for generations are being shunned for more fashionable modern alternatives, they said. A survey by the charity Booktrust revealed they are seen ...

Passing along traditional rhymes to a new generation of children is the focus of Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes, selected by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, English adaptations by ...

TRADITIONAL children’s nursery rhymes are being shunned by modern parents in favour of more fashionable alternatives, experts have warned. TRADITIONAL children’s nursery rhymes are being shunned by ...

Maggie Xu, mother of a 4-year-old in Beijing creates nursery rhymes by herself, sometimes with her daughter's help. "I create different stories, with her as the protagonist," Xu said. "It's easy for ...

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 ...

Andrew Ford, one of Australia’s best-known composers and musical commentators, has given beautiful new settings and accompaniments to familiar and neglected children's songs. ‘The variety was ...

Entertaining children armed with a stack of traditional nursery rhymes may conjure an image of perfect innocence. But one amateur historian claims those favourite verses sound more suited to the local ...

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 ...