Interesting Facts

According to the Times Online, the most popular nursery rhymes in the UK are:- 1) Twinkle, twinkle little star 2) Incey Wincey Spider 3) Round and round the garden 4) Baa baa black sheep 5) The grand old Duke of York 6) If you're happy and you know it 7) Humpty Dumpty 8) This little piggy 9) Ring a ring a roses 10) I'm a little teapot (What? No Lavender's Blue, Mary had a Little Lamb or Hey Diddle Diddle!)

According to the Institute of Education, more than a third of parents in the UK have never sung a nursery rhyme to their children. (Instead many parents prefer to sing pop songs to get their little ones off to sleep. I'm really glad my mother preferred "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", to "Like a bat out of hell".)