Earlier this year, the UC Davis Library accepted a gracious donation of more than 2,250 books about food from book collector and author Judith Herman. The donation includes books published as early as ...

Generations of children have learnt from nursery rhymes how to count, tell the time, name different colours and shapes – all sorts of things. And because the words are easy to remember, they love to ...

Choose me a nursery rhyme! If you're not sure what rhyme to sing or want to learn some new ones, try answering a few questions and let us choose. Why do we sing traditional nursery rhymes? Find out ...

Edited by Chris Duffy, intro. by Leonard S. Marcus. Roaring Brook/First Second, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59643-600-8 In this easy-to-read and fun to read aloud collection, classic nursery rhymes get a ...

The British Library holds this 1744 book of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, which was sold in London and is the oldest surviving published collection in the genre. Some of the rhymes ...