Brings together more than 500 rhymes and songs traditionally handed on to children, presents origins, oral and written developments, and first appearances in print or manuscript.

An illustrated collection of traditional verses, most of which have never been published before.

Arranged alphabetically according to their central idea or object and illustrated with a selection of quotations chronologically ordered to show the history and development of each belief, this dictionary presents superstitions from Great Britain and Eire surviving into the 19th and 20th centuries.

A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.

A collection of nursery rhymes featuring such little-known characters as the wee melodie man and Handy Spandy, Mrs. Whirly and little bonny Button-cap.