The nation’s favourite nursery rhymes
It was National Bookstart day last week, and as part of the initiative designed to get all young children interested in reading books, the Bookstart organisation decided to try to establish the nation’s favourite nursery rhyme.
Over 2,500 were polled from all across the country, and ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ came out on top overall. It was the favourite amongst all the regions, with the exception of the North East, where the favourite rhyme was ‘Incey Wincey Spider’.
This is how the top ten looked;
1. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
2. Incey Wincey Spider
3. Round and Round the Garden
4. Baa Baa Black Sheep
5. The Grand Old Duke of York
6. If You’re Happy and You Know It
7. Humpty Dumpty
8. This Little Piggy
9. Ring a Ring a Roses
10. I’m a Little Teapot
The survey also indicated a decline in the use of nursery rhymes, and revealed that only 36% of parents used them regularly, or sung them with their children. With parents claiming they were simply too old-fashioned to interest their offspring.
Bookstart would like to reverse this apparent trend, and as a result, has made an exclusive free booklet of the nation’s favourite nursery rhymes available for download, in both English and Welsh.
They will also be printing one million books of the nation’s top eight rhymes for distribution, aimed at encouraging parents to fall in love with our once more popular rhymes, and perhaps give them confidence to share them with their children and include them on their children’s bookshelves.
Bookstart Rhymetimes will also be going on all over the country in libraries, nurseries, schools, early years centres, shopping centres and bookshops. If you are lucky the Bookstart Bear may even make an appearance at these events, and further the enjoyment of singing along.
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