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