Many of us grew up singing the children's nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, the story of a giant egg who fell off a wall and cracked. Just to remind you how it goes: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty ...

A new campaign has been launched to save traditional British rhymes and songs amid fears they are dying out. The push follows sanitised, more upbeat versions of classic nursery rhymes, including ...

Turns out, our entire childhood is a lie. Humpty Dumpty is perhaps one of the most popular nursery rhymes that still has the power to throw Brits across the nation into a big-warm cuddle of fond ...

Scroll down to discover what the nursery rhyme Little Bo-Peep is really about WE’RE all familiar with the popular nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty, but we bet there’s something you didn’t know. It ...

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Humpty Dumpty is the main character of one of our most well-known nursery rhymes, but some people have been left stunned by a new revelation. The popular children's song has been sung all over the UK ...

Humpty Dumpty is not what he’s cracked up to be, according to one childhood dream killer. Popular YA author Holly Bourne scrambled the brains of many a social media watchdog Monday — by tweeting that ...

It's a nursery rhyme many of us know by heart. But a baffled author has sparked up a Twitter storm - questioning why we believe Humpty Dumpty is an egg. In a viral post, writer Holly Bourne, of London ...

If you've always considered lovely Humpty Dumpty to be a harmless egg, you might want to look away now. Equally, if you've got a much-loved book of illustrated nursery rhymes from your childhood, this ...