Chances are that when you were a kid, your parents sang you nursery rhymes to get you to sleep. And if that was the case, it is very likely they sang old nursery rhymes that were passed on from ...

Finally, Lizzie Borden was acquitted for the murders, so it was never really proven that she did it. She certainly didn’t get ...

Almost everybody knows the rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe." But do you know where it came from? And have you heard this early version?

What's your first memory of being told a story? Chances are it was listening your parents or another adult read to you at bedtime. The way most people first experience fairytales and nursery rhymes is ...

Arriana Salisbury recalled looking at stars with her father and loving “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” as a child. Salisbury ...

Jane Cobb. Black Sheep Press (www.blacksheeppress.com), $39.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-9698666-1-9 Children's librarian Cobb (I'm a Little Teapot! Presenting Preschool Storytime) presents rhymes ...

The life of a traditional nursery rhyme can be great theater. Something can start off dark, even heinous, written hundreds of years ago, and by the time it hits modernity, it’s as soft and fluffy as a ...

What’s the deal with scary and/or kid inappropriate stories, songs and nursery rhymes? To use a common example, Hansel and Gretel. This fairy tale is presented as a children’s bedtime story and it ...