What's your first memory of being told a story? Chances are it was listening your parents or another adult read to you at bedtime. The way most people first experience fairytales and nursery rhymes is ...

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 ...

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

Mother Goose wants to write a nursery rhyme for Elmo. Mother Goose (Kate McKinnon) tries to write a nursery rhyme for Elmo but she doesn't know anything about him. With help from his friend Abby, ...

The life of a traditional nursery rhyme can be great theater. Something can start off dark, even heinous, written hundreds of years ago, and by the time it hits modernity, it’s as soft and fluffy as a ...

The lyric itself feels plush, cozy, like a big hug with an even bigger pillow. Dating back to the 1800s, “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is an American nursery rhyme from the nineteen century. The verse was ...

The Napping House Granny and all the critters in her house pile on her bed for a napuntil a little flea causes a big stir Somebodys got an itch Each Peach Pear Plum Children can play I spy by finding ...

“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 ...