Sing & Learn: English Nursery Rhymes

Eight months of daily use and the sound still works perfectly. No fading, no distortion, no dying batteries at the worst moment. The reliability of this book is something I have come to genuinely depend on and it has never let me down. That kind of quality is rare in this product category.

My two-year-old quoted Hickory Dickory Dock to a stranger in the grocery store last week. The woman laughed and was delighted. My son seemed to understand he'd done something impressive and stood very tall. Watching a toddler discover the social power of language was a genuinely beautiful moment.

My husband and I both speak English as a second language and we were careful about the pronunciation models we expose our daughter to. The diction on this book is clear and careful without being robotic. She's picking up correct sounds and patterns and that is exactly what we needed.

Every time the Jack and Jill rhyme plays our dog comes running and sits next to my daughter. She now plays it specifically to summon him. It has become their whole thing together. A book that creates family rituals you didn't plan is a very good book.

We lived in three countries before settling here and I always worried about cultural rootedness for my children. English nursery rhymes are such a fundamental piece of the cultural fabric and this book gave my daughter access to them in a warm, accessible way. A small thing that means a lot.