He was always smart: Before he was the GZA, he could recite nursery rhymes backward and forward.

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The record is an 11-track foray into theatrical, space-themed chamber pop that falls somewhere between the score of a Broadway musical and a collection of sweet and playful nursery rhymes.

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It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.

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He lightheartedly recalled a "man with a high mission" who also enjoyed playing Stratego, a board game drawing on Napoleonic history, and belting out "La Marseillaise" and French nursery rhymes when the two companions found themselves in trying circumstances.

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According to mills, he believes the ke Nursery Rhymes by Storytimey to Nursery Rhymes success was not only the craft and love behind creating it in the first place, but the Storytime feature which allows users to remotely read to their kids.

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So clapping and singing nursery rhymes with babies and toddlers may not only be what many parents do naturally but might also protect children against the effects of dyslexia further down the road a hypothesis it is hard to imagine having developed without the insights that came from peering directly into children's brains.

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