The British Library holds this 1744 book of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, which was sold in London and is the oldest surviving published collection in the genre. Some of the ...

Before the nursery rhyme "Jack Be Nimble," jumping candlesticks was a form of sport-premonition, often at weddings or other ceremonies.

Previously released titles are brought to new life. Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems takes poems first published in the U.S. in 1932 as Fifty-One New Nursery ...