EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM

by Janet & Allan Ahlberg ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1979

The Ahlberg penchant for playing with nursery characters (Jeremiah in the Dark Woods, 1978) has issue this time in a more traditional, pastoral-pretty nursery book. ""Each Peach Pear Plum/ I spy Tom Thumb,"" reads the first couplet (of what was originally a counting-out rhyme), while opposite Tom sits half-hidden in a tree; ""Tom Thumb in the cupboard/ I spy Mother Hubbard"" shows him in plain sight and--look sharp!--only her posterior, looming in the picture's corner. And so it goes, with a new character named--and cleverly half-concealed--at each of the openings. Youngsters will enjoy spying them out and appreciate their comical faces until at the finale--""Plum Pie in the sun/ I spy. . . EVERYONE!""--they all spring out from concealment and sit down to a picnic feast. Once you've seen it, true, there are no surprises but, for the very young, there's another sort of satisfaction from knowing what's coming next.

Pub Date: March 1, 1979

ISBN: 0670287059

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1979

Categories: CHILDREN'S