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One in four Brits don’t know a single nursery rhyme
13th July 2007 New research reveals that the once familiar nursery rhyme is in danger of dropping out of modern culture. More than one in four UK adults were unable to remembera whole nursery rhyme, while 37 per cent of parents admitted they rarely sing to their baby or toddler. More than 1,200 UK parents were surveryed…
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Tagged Brits, Jack and Jill, Janine Spencer, Jill, Joanne Barlow, Literature, Nursery rhymes
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Nursery and creative books
Nursery Décor for beginners Coats & Clark Creative Publishing, hardback, 128 pages, £11.95 If you don’t like the nursery decorations available in the shops, have you thought about turning your hand to making your own? This book tells you how to create baby blankets – easy for even first-timers as long as you have access to…
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Tagged Bedding, Blankets, Embroidery, Folk art, Jill, Kathleen Hargreaves Rowan, Knitting, Linens, Mary Mary, Quilt, Quilting, Visual arts
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Nursery Rhymes more violent than TV
18th November A team of researchers say that children are exposed to far more violent incidents from their favourite nursery rhymes than from an average evening watching TV. The tongue-in-cheek study examined 25 popular rhymes including Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill which portray violent incidents such as Humpty cracking his head in a fall…
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Tagged Brian Harrison-Jennings, General Secretary, Jack and Jill, Jill, Literature, Nursery rhymes
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