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This week, Netflix unveiled a bigger play for young audiences with the launch of a games app for kids, the renewal of two preschool series and a new show based on one of the most enduring nursery rhymes of all time.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
The three-minute-plus earworm is more of a bombastic wakeup call than a nursery rhyme.
—Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
In one video that’s supposed to be a nursery rhyme about cars, children ride without a seatbelt and walk in the middle of a road with moving cars behind them.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
The classic nursery rhyme is being sung by a young woman named Evy Babic (Nina Kiri) to her terminally ill mother (Michèle Duquet), who lies wordlessly in bed in what a hospice nurse warns Evy over the phone are likely the last days of her life.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
The three-minute-plus earworm is more of a bombastic wakeup call than a nursery rhyme.
—Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
In one video that’s supposed to be a nursery rhyme about cars, children ride without a seatbelt and walk in the middle of a road with moving cars behind them.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
The classic nursery rhyme is being sung by a young woman named Evy Babic (Nina Kiri) to her terminally ill mother (Michèle Duquet), who lies wordlessly in bed in what a hospice nurse warns Evy over the phone are likely the last days of her life.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Nursery rhyme.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursery%20rhyme. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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