Dr. Moore quoted in The Dallas Morning News!

In the April 10th, 2002 issue of The Dallas Morning News, Dr. Moore talks with reporter Jean Nash Johnson on messages delivered by children's nursery rhymes. Here's an excerpt:

Children's recording artist and author Dr. Thomas Moore says many nursery rhymes he grew up with were rooted in Anglo-Saxon history and did not include other cultures.

His Humpty Dumpty Dumpty (McGraw Hill, available this spring) is an illustrated songbook and cassette recording in which a community comes together to fix Humpty, and the community is made up of people representing all ages and backgrounds.

"We are constantly giving children messages about the world we live in," he says. "All we think about is the brokenness [instead] of the community thinking that we can all come together to put him back together again. Also, because the king's horses and king's men were known as the experts, the message could be that we should sit back and let the experts take care of it instead of everyone picking up the pieces."