Most people who recite nursery rhymes to children aren't thinking about the politics, plagues, or executions that may have shaped those cheerful little verses. They're just trying to get a toddler to ...

We explore why nursery rhymes, designed for children, so often feel unsettling when placed in darker contexts. Tracing their ...

The thing about human beings is that we’re all flawed. No one is perfect, no one is infallible. We are all in this thing called life together not as finished products but as learning, seeking beings ...

Here's the story behind some creepy nursery rhyme lines "Hey Diddle, Diddle" may be a reference to the scandal between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester “Humpty Dumpty” was a ...

Jane Cobb. Black Sheep Press (www.blacksheeppress.com), $39.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-9698666-1-9 Children's librarian Cobb (I'm a Little Teapot! Presenting Preschool Storytime) presents rhymes ...

“It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring,” has been sung to children for generations. And you might have thought it’s just a wholesome nursery rhyme about weather and a clumsy man, but ...

Rhyme thrives at both poles of literature. It is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Sugar is sweet / And so are you”—and the high-tragic language of Racine. Rhyme ...