Top Of The Rhymes
A new survey reveals the nation’s favourite nursery rhymes
Posted: 8 October 2009
by Helen McKay-Ferguson
In a Booktrust survey of the nation’s favourite rhymes, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was named the top nursery rhyme in all regions, apart from the north east, where Incey Wincey Spider topped the charts. So what were the chart-topping nursery rhymes for 2009?
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
Illustration taken from My Favourite Nursery Rhymes by Tony Ross
(Walker Books)
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