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A Reason for Rhyme: Nursery Rhymes Introduce Toddlers to Literature

I am a small teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle; this is my front. When everything oozes out, listen to the cry Just let me sleep and pour. Great letter? Maybe not. However, this deceptively simple poem contains the basic structure of literature: character, plot, setting, and plot. Nursery rhymes are your children’s […]

The Origins of Famous Nursery Rhymes

If you delve deeply enough into stories by the Brothers Grimm, you will discover that a majority of their stories are about violence and horrible ways of getting murdered. Yet these stories are read to our children as “kid” stories, sometimes right before bed as bedtime stories. Many things that we deep to be childish […]