Nursery rhymes, songs, verse and lullabies are part of a child’s literary heritage. Passed down from parent or family member to baby or young child, they stretch back generations. No child should grow ...

In a move branded "woke" by critics, a raft of classic nursery rhymes - dating back hundreds of years - have been rewritten, with Baa Baa Black Sheep changed from the traditional 'Baa baa black sheep, ...

Nursery rhymes may not make sense to the 21st-century child. What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, ...

Wait a minute, what happened to Miss Muffet? She is no longer afraid of spiders, and she has become ecologically hip. That’s her image in the cleaned-up version of Mother Goose rhymes presented by ...