The Superior Express -

For years parents, grandparents, teachers and day care providers, have been encouraged to read books, stories and poems to children. My mother often read to me and sometimes when my father had time, he too would do so. I loved hearing all those stories but mostly for some reason I was drawn to the nursery rhymes. I don’t even know if those nursery rhymes are read today to children as I suppose some of them and their wordings are considered unacceptable for children’s ears, but for me and those children growing up a few years back, they hold such memories.

Most of the nursery rhymes were writte...