Songs and games

Popular English nursery rhymes

Free Rhymetime songsheet downloadable from Bookstart website (UK). (PDF, 684Kb)

Books with rhymes and fingerplays

This little Puffin, Elizabeth Matterson, Penguin/Puffin
Invaluable book of rhymes, songs and games. Starts with games and fingerplays for babies and adds rhymes and fingerplays to do with the world around us.
Acker Backer boo
Illustrated book of rhymes and games from a variety of countries. Best for older pre-schoolers.

Nursery rhymes

Nursery rhymes can be used from babies’ earliest days to instill an understanding of rhythm, rhyme and storytelling.

Lucy Cousins book of Nursery Rhymes
Lucy Cousins, Macmillan
The Mother Goose Treasury
Illustrated by Raymond Briggs, Hamish Hamilton
The ABC book of Nursery Rhymes
ABC books
The Walker book of Read–Aloud Rhymes for the very young
selected by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Marc Brown, Walker