Rub-a-Dub-Dub as a children’s rhyme first showed up in the late 18th century when a version of it was featured in the second volume of English composer James Hook’s A Christmas Box, alongside ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men In a Tub" is on the docket today. In other words, it's time for another Reason Behind the Rhyme. ELLIOTT ...

The Meaning . The nursery rhyme, which was first published in the late 1700s in the second volume of Hook’s Christmas Box under the name “Dub a dub dub,” has, over time, become a common ...

Braider was commenting on our recent deconstruction of the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub." Special Series From Our Listeners. Opinion Letters: Deconstructing Nursery Rhymes. ...

London librarian Chris Roberts fills Debbie Elliott in on the three men in the tub as a series on the real meaning of nursery rhymes continues. Roberts is the author of <EM>Heavy Words ...

The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. Rub-A-Dub-Dub was animated in a similar way, yet all the characters were anthropomorphic animals. It ran in 1983, completing 30 episodes.