But this is no ordinary nursery rhyme. A lover of all things ... To avoid any legal issues, the book will not be published in print form. Instead, the book will be put up online for free as ...

Jack Sprat first appears in print around 1569—it cropped up ... an influential 18th-century book of nursery rhymes that helped popularize the Mother Goose figure. Each of the rhymes in this ...

The earliest print appearance of “Ring Around the Rosie” in English was in Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes in 1881. Of course, nursery rhymes and other forms of ...

Chances are you’re familiar with the nursery rhyme ... M.O. So if the rhyme isn’t about a Renaissance serial killer, where did it come from? The verse first appeared in print in the 1819 ...

Like the nursery rhyme in question here, the song is about the return of Jesus. The first time the song, “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain,” appeared in print was in Carl Sandburg’s ...

"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?

A new bilingual collection from Tuttle, "Japanese Nursery Rhymes: Carp Streamers, Falling Rain and other Traditional Favorites," delights with sound and color as a picture book, a Japanese ...