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Title: My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Archibald Opie, Rosemary Wells ISBN: 1-56402-620-5 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of class - superb
Comment: Iona Opie spent her life collecting children's folklore. The selection of nursery rhymes in this book shows the knowledge of what children really have an affinity for that she gained over that time. This is not a collection of what adults think children ought to lie - it's a collection of what they do like.
The illustrations and the layout of the book continue the quality of what children like. The layout gives no more than one rhyme per page. This limits the contents of the book but matches the attention space of the age the book targets. The illustrations are not of humans but of animals in the lineage of Richard Scarry, the Bernsteins, etc. This gives the book a cozy, lap feeling that is age appropriate.
Grandchildren and grandnieces/nephews have all received this book. In all cases it became the Mother Goose of choice for parent and child. That is the best recommendation the book could have.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Mother Goose to Own
Comment: As the mother of four, I think I've read Mother Goose rhymes probably tens of thousands of times over the years. We've checked many Mother Goose books out of the library, but (thanks to my mom), this is the one we own. We return to it time and time again for several reasons. First, of all, it's big, which I really like because it means that I don't have to read the same rhymes night after night after night. There's ample room in it to poke around (also its size has allowed Opie to include in it some we didn't know - but quickly learned. My favorite of these is "Wash the dishes, Wipe the dishes, Ring the bell for tea; Three good wishes, Three good kisses, I will give to thee.") I also really like Opie's selection of rhymes. She's left out some of the grimmest, which makes the book appropriate for even the smallest of readers. This is not to say, however, that this a bland book. For Opie has included many really fun pieces. And this leads me to comment on Rosemary Wells' illustrations, which are warm and funny, in the most beautiful colors. She lends her own touch to this book. Sometimes she offers a new interpretation of a rhyme (see, for example, Humpty Dumpty, which it turns out in Wells' world really concerns a small bunny not very fond of boiled eggs). In other pictures, she simply adds hilarious, unexpected, fascinating detail. My daughters Rose, 2, and Daisy, 6, and I laughed and laughed over this book today, turning a sad sick morning into a happy time. I regularly find Rose, who is generally given to activities like bouncing, sitting quietly, poring over this book. This is the one to buy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very good nursery rhymes book
Comment: My son loves this book, he is 4 and have most of them memorized, we borrowed it at first at the library, he loved it so much that I had to get him his own.I like it for it's simple and easy to remember lines, we read a couple of different nursery rhymes books, that I find is a little too much to remember for his age.If you buy this book be ready to keep reading it, 'cause your little one will be asking you again and again.
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Title: Here Comes Mother Goose by Iona Archibald Opie, Rosemary Wells ISBN: 0763606839 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants: Over 700 Selections by Pamela Byrne Schiller, Pam Schiller, Jackie Silberg, Deborah C. Wright, Debbie Wright ISBN: 0876592671 Publisher: Gryphon House Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Goodnight Moon Board Book by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd ISBN: 0694003611 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by MARC BROWN, JACK PRELUTSKY ISBN: 0394872185 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399226907 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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