Animals figure prominently in this collection of 40 nursery rhymes, distinguished by Morris’s dreamlike watercolor illustrations. For “Lavender’s Blue” and “Lilies Are White” a king and queen ride a ...

And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of ...