Most of the 1,000 or so American and British nursery rhymes that have come down through history are playful and silly nonsense, “Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,/Upstairs and downstairs in his ...

LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- A British historian claims traditional British nursery rhymes contain adult-themes and sexual references in his new book about the verses' origins. Chris Roberts, a social ...

Check out this list of children’s nursery rhymes and the stories behind them.

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Rub-A-Dub-Dub was a British nursery rhyme TV series animated by Peter Lang and Alan Rogers of the Cut-Out Animation Co. They were previously famous for Pigeon Street. The series was produced by David ...