Arriana Salisbury recalled looking at stars with her father and loving “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” as a child. Salisbury now shares nursery rhymes with her two children and a stepchild. “At ...

“Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies. Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!” It’s a classic nursery rhyme that children often sing on the playground while spinning around. “Ring Around the Rosie,” ...

All over the world, parents sing songs and recite rhymes to their young children. Researchers have known for some time that this has a stimulating or calming effect on babies, but it turns out that ...

Nothing prevents us reading poetry year-round with children, but still it’s nice to have the spur of an official “poetry month.” In this regard, April constitutes an annual excuse to pull out old ...

"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

Most kindergarten readiness checklists lean heavily on early literacy skills like recognizing letters and beginning sounds in words, connecting letters to their sounds, and identifying or producing ...