Rosen (The Missing), who also contributes a thoughtful foreword, compiles a solid mix of nursery rhymes, mixing old favorites (“Miss Mary Mack”) and genuine head scratchers—at least for U.S. audiences ...

JAPANESE NURSERY RHYMES: Carp Streamers, Falling Rain, and other Traditional Favorites, by Danielle Wright and illustrated by Helen Acraman. Tuttle Publishing, 2012, 32 pp., $16.95 (hardcover) With ...

Need a nursery rhyme? Pick up The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes, illus. by Debi Gliori, and find one. Unique to this collection are the facts about the meanings behind the rhymes. For ...

HARBOR SPRINGS, MICH. -- Fittingly, the idea to marry children’s nursery rhymes with constellations in the night sky came to author Mary Stewart Adams while waking from a dream. Sparked by learning 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 ...

A Virginia State University professor is being recognized on one of literature’s biggest stages. Dr. Latorial Faison, chair of VSU’s Department of Languages & Literature, has been nominated for the ...