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 ...

The BBC has been accused of tinkering with traditional nursery rhymes to give them happy endings and avoid upsetting children. According to recent broadcasts, Humpty Dumpty was not irreparably damaged ...