Meet familiar friends and new neighbors in this playful collection of nursery rhymes.
On a misty, moisty morning, we meet the snoring old man, and by evening we're running through the town with Wee Willie Winkie in his nightgown. A day full of nursery rhyme enchants, delights, and enlightens young readers.
Gorgeous illustrations paired with quintessential nursery rhymes introduce familiar friends like Little Bo Peep, Georgie Porgie and the Grand Old Duke of York, as well as meet new neighbors, including Little Polly Flinders, Honest John Boldero and Little Tommy Tucker.
An attractive and easily giftable collection of tried and true favorites.
Alan Marks is the illustrator of many books for children, including High-Tide for Horseshoe Crabs, Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle, Little Lost Bat, and A Mother's Journey; and Storm (Heinemann). Alan lives in Kent, England.
Show moreMeet familiar friends and new neighbors in this playful collection of nursery rhymes.
On a misty, moisty morning, we meet the snoring old man, and by evening we're running through the town with Wee Willie Winkie in his nightgown. A day full of nursery rhyme enchants, delights, and enlightens young readers.
Gorgeous illustrations paired with quintessential nursery rhymes introduce familiar friends like Little Bo Peep, Georgie Porgie and the Grand Old Duke of York, as well as meet new neighbors, including Little Polly Flinders, Honest John Boldero and Little Tommy Tucker.
An attractive and easily giftable collection of tried and true favorites.
Alan Marks is the illustrator of many books for children, including High-Tide for Horseshoe Crabs, Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle, Little Lost Bat, and A Mother's Journey; and Storm (Heinemann). Alan lives in Kent, England.
Show moreMeet familiar friends and new neighbors in this playful collection of nursery rhymes.
Alan Marks is the illustrator of many books for children, including High-Tide for Horseshoe Crabs, Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle, Little Lost Bat, and A Mother's Journey; and Storm (Heinemann). Alan lives in Kent, England.
Over the course of one day, readers are introduced to some familiar
and not-so-familiar nursery rhyme characters. The day starts with
"Gregory Griggs" and his 27 wigs (though he is pictured in only
one) and ends with a princess going "Rock-a-Bye, Baby" in a green
cradle. The titles of the 26 rhymes can only be found, miserly
enough, in the table of contents. The rhymes themselves range from
four-line snippets to a five-stanza version of "Little Bo-Peep."
But though the concept is clever, the placement of the poems can be
a puzzle, as the progression from sunrise to sunset is not always
clear. Instead of starting off this slim collection with the "Old
Man in Leather" rising on a "misty, moisty morning," Marks uses the
aforementioned rhyme about wigs. As the day winds down, the author
inexplicably sandwiches "Georgie Porgie" between "Wee Willie
Winkie" and "Honest John Boldero" and his candles. The dreamy
pencil, ink, and watercolor drawings nostalgically portray costumes
and people (mostly, though not universally, white) from
approximately the 18th century to the early 20th. Marks' sense of
whimsy is clear in the maniacal stare of a cat giving tiny "Jerry
Hall" a ride past a rat with dinner on its mind, and readers can
empathize with "Little Tommy Tucker" standing on a wooden crate
with the absolute rigidity of stage fright. Ultimately, the uneven
presentation makes this Mother Goose collection a supplemental
purchase.
- Kirkus Reviews
Marks gathers 26 people-centric nursery rhymes, including
well-known figures like Jack and Jill, Doctor Foster, and Little
Bo-Peep. Expressive, slightly caricatured ink-and-watercolor
illustrations match the old-fashioned air of the enduring rhymes,
but Marks incorporates some fun details, too. The "grand old Duke
of York" is a boy riding a rocking horse, Peter Piper is a jester
balancing a pumpkin on his nose (one that looks to be home to Peter
Peter Pumpkin Eater's wife), and the modern-looking children on a
city sidewalk seem almost aghast that nightgown-clad Wee Willie
Winkie thinks that they ought to be in bed by eight o'clock.
- Publishers Weekly
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