Listen to It's Raining, It's Pouring! A classic nursery rhyme about an old man who bumped his head. The first few lines of the rhyme were first published in a book called ‘The Little Mother Goose’ in 1912. 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.