The words to the nursery rhyme were familiar: “It’s raining, it’s pouring; the old man is snoring." But it wasn’t soothing. And it wasn’t putting anyone to sleep. Quite the opposite.

by Carin Berger, Sterling, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4027-6525-4 Classic nursery rhyme characters are recast in an eco-friendly platform. Yankee Doodle explores green transportation ("Yankee Doodle ...

Sinister rumors about the beloved cheery nursery rhyme “The Muffin Man” are being whisked around on social media, leaving a bad taste in slack-jawed mouths worldwide. “Which nursery rhyme ...

As a child, we all remember learning the words to nursery rhymes, but have you ever wondered what the popular song Ring a Ring o' Roses actually means? The song you may have sung with your friends ...

But that's not the only surprisingly creepy children's song or nursery rhyme. If you look into the origin of the songs we were encouraged to sing as children, it turns out a lot of them are way ...

We take a tumble down history to discover the origins, intriguing meaning and full lyrics of the traditional rhyme. ‘Jack and Jill’ is an 18th-century English nursery rhyme. It tells of a boy named ...

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a hue of mixed colours (purple-blue & green) and who engages in loud and constant chattering. The bird is also the subject of a nursery rhyme borrowed from the folklore of United Kingdom.

Every tree with a green ribbon tied around it will die because of damage done by the insect, which is headed this way and is likely already in the state. City and state staff have tied ribbons ...

"Drunken sailors" have been removed from the lyrics of a nursery rhyme in a government-funded books project. But the Bookstart charity says the re-writing of What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?

Sing along to your most-loved nursery rhymes with Mr Tumble and friends, click across the playlist to find your favourite songs! To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser ...