There are many ways in which fiction can impact the lives of the people who consume it. Sometimes, the imagined world can ...

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. He fell off the wall - from the highest high - so high!

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.