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Title: Little Boy Blue: And Other Rhymes by Iona Archibald Opie, Rosemary Wells ISBN: 0-7636-0354-6 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Cute book, but the rhymes aren't as we remembered them
Comment: My daughter was given a few of these Opie and Wells books andthey fare about "average" in her collection.

We (parents)would like them better if the verses weren't changed from what we remember. For example, instead of "Hickory Dickory Dock," they use "Dickory dickory dock."

An informal search on [a website] shows >1600 matches for "Hickory" and 9 for "Dickory," so the former is clearly more common. As best as we can determine, the original was published in 1744 as "Hickere, Dickere, Dock" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book II by Mary Cooper. The French version has its opening: "Digerie, digerie, doge.")

Layout of some of the verses could be improved. For example, the first few times we read "The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh," we didn't 'get' the rhythm because the verse is written vertically with awkward spacing. (In this instance, it's best to sing it as a song.)

On the plus side, we hadn't seen the "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton" rhyme before. Our daughter seems to like filling in the "fifteen miles."...

Rating: 5
Summary: My one-year old loves this book!
Comment: This book of simple rhymes and funny pictures can be read over and over. My one year old laughs out load, even though we've read the book hundreds of times.