Early versions of the rhyme included the words ‘bloody’ and ‘blooming’—and sometimes didn’t feature a spider at all. ByM/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (spider), VladSt/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty ...

A wide range of cartoonists from Dave Roman to Mike Mignola have been recruited to update classic nursery rhymes in First Second’s Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated ...

I realized while baby-sitting my 2-year-old granddaughter that, silly as they are, I still know them by heart. The words of these old nursery rhymes remain with me, I think, because I learned them ...

Historian Robert Lacey’s new book Nursery Rhymes with Pictures—in which he showcases 82 nursery rhymes originally illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser in the early 20th century—is a significant departure ...

Nursery rhymes are short, fun poems or songs for young children. They often have simple words, catchy rhythms, and rhyming lines that are easy to remember. Many nursery rhymes have been passed down ...

Remember the first nursery rhyme or Mother Goose song you learned? Was it about Little Miss Muffet and that spider beside her? And Ring-a-Ring of Roses (also known as Ring Around the Rosies) has such ...

Like the stories and nursery rhymes that inspire the theme, the works at the "Mother Goose Reimagined" exhibition at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich are varied and colorful, humorous and serious, ...

In the canon of great horror writing, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley tend to dominate the craft. But Mother Goose isn’t too far behind. Yes, that ...

But despite the lack of a true survey like that, it can be pretty safely assumed that most people are familiar with the rhyme. But who among us knows the meaning of the long-sung work? That’s a ...

Nursery Rhyme Legends can rock, roll and rap? It’s true and Crib Rock Couture makes the concert tees to prove it. Children’s clothing line Crib Rock Couture whisks classic nursery rhyme characters off ...

Classic nursery rhymes have been rewritten by an animal rights group who have criticised the lyrics for encouraging "speciesism and cruelty to animals". People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ...