Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

The magazines were titled by the year of children's studies, which included Yoiko ( good children ), Yōchien ( nursery school ), and Shogaku Ichinensei ( first grade of primary school ) to Shogaku Yonnensei ( fourth grade of primary school ).

Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including " To market, to market " and " Cock a doodle doo ", which date from at least the late 16th century.

; " The Veldt ": A mother and father in a futuristic society begin to worry about their children's mental health when the three-dimensional nursery they bought for them begins projecting a veldt in Africa populated by hungry lions feasting on a set of carcasses.

The main building of the hospitium survived this demolition, and after various other uses, has now been incorporated into an office development, and is occupied by a children's nursery.

Southey is also credited with penning the popular children's nursery rhyme What are Little Boys Made Of?

The pirate captain was created for a front-cloth scene to be staged in front of the curtain while the set was changed from Neverland back to the Darling nursery, depicting the children's journey home.

Records at Chatsworth House show that the room was used intermittently as a children's nursery, undoubtedly for Lady Burlington's grand children and subsequently for the children of Georgiana and Elizabeth Foster.

A second memorial dedicated to Brooklands aircraft design and manufacturing heritage was specially designed and manufactured by British Aerospace in the late 1980s to mark the closing of its last factory there and takes the form of a large engraved acrylic panel displayed at the southern end of the old runway close to the entracne to the community park and a children's nursery.

His 1951 book of short stories, The Illustrated Man, includes a story called The Veldt, in which a children's nursery can create material objects based on thought.

‘ The Grand Old Duke of York ’ ( also sung as The Noble Duke of York ) is an English children's nursery rhyme, often performed as an action song.

" As examples Millington mentions " Rusalka ( 1983 ), with its Edwardian nursery setting and Freudian undertones, and Hänsel und Gretel ( 1987 ), its dream pantomime peopled by fantasy figures from the children's imagination ... Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( 1987 ) and Wozzeck ( 1990 ) exemplified an approach to production in which grotesque caricature jostles with forceful emotional engagement ".

It comprises recreational fields, an artificial lake filled with fish, a nursery for potted plants and a children's traffic playground.

The main lyric was cribbed from an old children's nursery rhyme:

In the Victorian household, the children's quarters were referred to as the ' nursery ', but the name of the responsible servant had largely evolved from ' nurse ' to ' nanny '.

Accentual verse is particularly common in children's poetry – nursery rhymes and the less well-known skipping-rope rhymes are the most common form of accentual verse in the English Language.

Sicilian influence is also evident in many of the local superstitions, in simple children's nursery rhymes, and in the devotion to certain saints, especially St. Agatha.

From soon after we have records of short children's rhyming songs, but most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century.

She later worked for some time in a children's home in York and worked at a nursery school in London.

One root of the name " pick-up sticks " may be the line of a children's nursery rhyme, "... five, six, pick-up sticks!

Her sons, Princes William and Harry, went to local nursery and pre-preparatory schools in Notting Hill, which is a short drive away, and were raised in Kensington Palace, which was a " children's paradise " according to Andrew Morton, with long passageways, a helicopter pad, and many outdoor gardens, including one on the roof where the family spent many hours.

One fictional legend averred that the children's nursery rhyme " Sing a Song of Sixpence " was really a coded reference used by pirates to recruit members.

After two wins, they would receive a prize package, sometimes consisting of an entire room of furniture, major appliances, a nursery for expectant or newlywed mothers, or children's items such as clothes, toys and games, or bicycles.

is a general term for nursery rhymes and children's songs.

This aspect of bean digestion is the basis for the children's rhyme " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit ".

Geisel published 46 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter.

vous dirai-je, Maman, was far from a children's rhyme.

Next, Burton wrote and produced ( but did not direct, due to schedule constraints on Batman Returns ) The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) for Disney, originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme.

There is a popular myth in Gloucester that the famous children's rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is about a battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the English Civil War.

* Little Jack Horner, a children's rhyme allegedly based on the episode.

The book takes its title from an old children's rhyme:

The foundry has produced a number of famous bells, including many of those in the London churches commemorated in the children's rhyme Oranges and Lemons.

* My Emperor's New Clothes-" set in the kingdom of Mango-Chutney, a one-act children's musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen story ( Shue works in some cross-dressing, as well as a rhyme for " orange ")"

In Britain the rhyme has been played as a children's game since at least the late nineteenth century.

The children's rhyme upon discovering a lost object is " Finders, keepers / Losers, weepers ".

The rhyme is often used in a children's singing game, which exists in a wide variety of forms, with additional verses.

A 1744 publication in England by children's publisher John Newbery called A Little Pretty Pocket-Book includes a woodcut of stoolball and a rhyme entitled " Base-ball.

The cockchafer is featured in a German children's rhyme similar to the English Ladybird, Ladybird:

On a 1947 trip to the Detroit children's zoo in Belle Isle Park, Oakland nurseryman Arthur Navlet saw a collection of small nursery rhyme themed buildings, and wanted to create something similar in Oakland's Lake Merritt Park.

An analogous example of such poetry in English might be the familiar children's rope-skipping rhyme:

A similar controversy emerged in 1999 when reservations about the rhyme were submitted to Birmingham City Council by a working group on racism in children's resources, which were never approved or implemented.

The Mars Volta's concept album Noctourniquet is inspired by the children's nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy, and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.

* The name of this episode derives from the old children's rhyme, " Friday's Child " The oldest version of the rhyme has " Friday's child is full of woe.