Take Little Miss Muffet, for example, who likes to sit on a hassock while eating cottage cheese. In "Once Upon a Rhyme," Miss Muffet is also a spoiled brat who has claimed a pair of Bo Peep's ...

Last week, I lived a nursery rhyme — with an Occam’s razor twist. I was a lot like Little Miss Muffet sans tuffet. In full disclosure, I had to look up tuffet just to be sure. (In case you ...

UPDATED versions of classic nursery rhymes such as Baa Baa Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffet have been released to "remove insensitive… Newsletters Reader Rewards ...

Little Miss Muffet’s first name was probably Patience. The heroine of the nursery rhyme is assumed to be Patience Moffat, the daughter of Thomas Moffat (d. 1604), an Elizabethan physician and… ...

Food may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nursery rhymes. But stop and run through some of them. * Wasn’t little Miss Muffet eating something when that spider &#822… ...

Nursery rhymes have been changed to reflect kinder attitudes towards animals; Little Miss Muffet is vegan, and parts of Three Blind Mice has been edited down; ...

Classic nursery rhymes have been rewritten by an animal rights group who have criticised the lyrics for encouraging "speciesism and cruelty to animals". ... The animal group turned Little Miss Muffet ...

Nursery rhymes, songs, verse and lullabies are part of a child’s literary heritage. ... There really was a Little Miss Muffet, daughter of Dr Thomas Muffet, ...

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 ...