Recently, I found a beautiful 19th century children’s book called Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. In it, illustrator Kate Greenaway had drawn the demure expressions and swan-like curvatures ...

Tracey Rogers receives funding from ARC. Lucinda Chambers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...

Male leopard seals compose and sing their own songs to woo potential mating partners, scientists in Australia have found. The songs are structured much like nursery rhymes, making them easy to ...

South Africans have seen their share of financial fables, yet few have been sung so sweetly – or collapsed so quickly – as KleuterZone, the preschool “investment” empire now under provisional ...

"They’re really lovely songs, a lot of them. I just haven’t heard them in a lovely way before." When singer-songwriter Ollie Thomas started teaching early years children, he was disappointed at the ...

Jack Sprat first appears in print around 1569—it cropped up twice in an anonymously published morality play titled The Marriage of Wit and Science: “Heard you ever such a counsel of such a Jack sprat?

Forget 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' — today's tots are turning up the volume with AC/DC, proving even nap time needs a killer soundtrack. A recent survey has found that over a quarter of parents view ...

One of the best parts about modern music is that there are always new songs coming out every day. Pop music is always creating fresh tunes. But while there are new hot singles churning out regularly, ...

We all need reminders. In the 2000s, it was all about day planners. In the 1990s, it was Post-it sticky notes. At the dawn of time, it was cave drawings. But somewhere in between there, nursery rhymes ...