Getting Started with Nursery Rhymes (page 4)

Cover art for MY VERY FIRST MOTHER GOOSE

CHILDREN'S

Released: Sept. 1, 1996

edited by Iona Opie, illustrated by Rosemary Wells

"There's little point in pretending that even prodigious collections of nursery rhymes can do without this one—it's a must. (index) (Poetry. 2-8)"

My Very First Mother Goose ($19.99; Sept. 1996; 108 pp.; 1-56402- 620-5): One glimpse of the merry Wells (The Language of Doves, p. 1159, etc.) characters that caper through these pages—a cast of hundreds—one flip through the pages where Opie (I Saw Esau, 1992, etc.) has arranged almost 70 familiar and not-so-familiar rhymes to an effect of unabashed glee, and readers will be in love again with the original Mother Goose. Read full book review >

Cover art for THE INNER CITY MOTHER GOOSE

CHILDREN'S

Released: May 1, 1996

THE INNER CITY MOTHER GOOSE

by Eve Merriam, illustrated by David Diaz

The Inner City Mother Goose ($16.00; May 1, 1996; 70 pp.; 0-689- 80677-9): First published in 1969, Merriam's collection of urban rhymes has not only held its power, but some of the pieces are even more resonant. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Sept. 1, 1995

SKIP ACROSS THE OCEAN

by Floella Benjamin, illustrated by Sheila Moxley

"The bonus is the design of the endpapers, comprised of a riotous patchwork quilt of images. (Picture book. 2- 6)"

Exuberant childlike paintings glow and almost run away with this eclectic grouping of 32 nursery rhymes. Read full book review >

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