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However, there is a lot more that nursery rhymes can offer… Tuneful repetition is a brilliant learning tool and there is much more for a young child to learn from nursery rhymes than you might ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.