Listen and act along with the famous American nursery rhyme. I'm A Little Teapot. This nursery rhyme was written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley in 1939, for the Shirley Temple Radio Show. Nursery rhymes offer numerous developmental benefits for young children from language and literacy skills to cognitive and social, emotional development. Repetition of these short little rhymes has big impacts on our little ones so no wonder they have stood the test of time.