Science tells us that babies develop best when they are spoken to, sung to and read to. Even when they’re tiny, the sound of their parents’ voices helps babies make sense of the world and feel comfortable with new people and places – and this beautiful book brings you best-loved nursery rhymes and songs in one handsome volume, including:

Five Little Ducks; Once I Caught A Fish Alive; Round and Round the Garden; The ABC Song; Teddy Bears Picnic; She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain; If You’re Happy and You Know It; Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes; I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; Rain, Rain, Go Away; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Ten in the Bed; Dingle Dangle Scarecrow; 10 Green Bottles; B-I-N-G-O; A Sailor Went to Sea; Ring Around the Rosie; The More We Get Together; Five Little Monkeys; Finger Family; Wind the Bobbin up; Polly Put the Kettle On; Do Your Ears Hang Low?; The Ants Go Marching; Grand Old Duke of York; Apples and Bananas; Kookaburra; Teddy Bear; Skidamarink a Dink a Dink; The Wheels on the Bus