Nursery Rhymes & other songs and rhymes for kids     A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. In literature, Mother Goose is the archetypical countrywoman, the teller of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. The name Mother Goose has its origins in France, although the verses are British. Charles Perrault (1628-1703, a French writer, published a collection of eight famous folk tales in 1697: La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood), Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood, Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard), Le Chat botté (The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots), Les Fées (The Fairies), Cendrillon (Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper), Riquet à la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft, Le Petit Poucet (Little Thumb). This collection of tales was called "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye" or "Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose". These tales were translated into English in 1729. In 1765, John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody switched the focus from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, and in English this is still the prime connotation for Mother Goose. The name is now used as a generic title for collections of nursery rhymes, especially ones of a previous age. It is also the name of a pantomime featuring nursery rhyme characters. On these pages, you will find a selection of Nursery Rhymes as well as other rhymes and songs for kids.   Enjoy ! A Tisket, a tasket Alphabet Song Animal Fair Baa, Baa, black sheep Bingo Curly Locks Daisy, Daisy Do-Re-Mi Frère Jacques Hey Diddle Diddle Hickory, Dickory Dock Humpty Dumpty Hush Little Baby If You're Happy Itsy Bitsy Spider Jack and Jill Little Bo Peep Little Miss Muffet London Bridge Mary Had A Little Lamb Mary Mary Quite Contrary Old Mac Donald Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Pop Goes The Weasel Rain, rain go away Rock-A-Bye-Baby Row Your Boat Rub-a-Dub-Dub Ten little Indians There was an Old Woman... Sailing, Sailing This Little Piggy This Old Man Three Blind Mice Twinkle Twinkle Little Star What are little boys made of?     [ Site Index ] [ Home ] | Back to the Reading Corner Menu | This page was created on: April 14th 2003. Last updated on: October 6th 2005. ~ Graphics purchased at: Graphics by Irene & Country Patch Collections ~ ~ Backgrounds from My Little Squiggles & Digi-Ink Designs ~  The nursery rhymes on this pages are from the books "Holly Hobbie Nursery Rhymes Book". Platt & Munk Publishers. NY, 1977 & Christian versions from "The Christian Mother Goose Book of Nursery Rhymes". DECKER, Marjorie. Grosset & Dunlap. NY, 2001. Other rhymes and songs were found on the internet or copied from old notebooks. Information about nursery rhymes from Wikipedia.

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