Rarely do classic nursery rhymes use words that most readers don’t know and have never heard before. But “Little Miss Muffet” is one of those rare exceptions. The short verse, about a young ...

We can recite them all: “Humpty Dumpty,” “Jack and Jill,” “Old King Cole,” “Little Miss Muffet,” etc. Yes, nursery rhymes. Even though we know the words to hundreds of them ...

Rarely do classic nursery rhymes use words that most readers don’t know and have never heard before. But “Little Miss Muffet” is one of those rare exceptions. The short verse, about a young ...

but other nursery rhyme characters such as Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Three Blind Mice, Little Miss Muffet and Old King Cole. "I definitely took license with each character," Sloan said.

I don’t know what prompted us to think of Little Miss Muffet, but we did. And so then we decided we might as well try to organize the books according to nursery rhyme. So that’s how we started doing ...