Author: Sylvia Long
Title: Mother Goose
Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1999.
Grade Level: PreK-2
Summary: An illustrated collection of nursery rhymes filled with animal characters.
Strengths: Long is able to colorfully and creatively revamp familiar nursery rhymes. By using animals to illustrate the nursery rhymes, those rhymes that sometimes are scary or confusing are more easily understood by children. Long's double page illustrations are creative and relate wonderfully to the text. Also, Long has hidden illustrated connections from each page to the next which helps older readers have an added enjoyment of these rhymes. For instance the spoon in"Hey, diddle, diddle!" is the same spoon Little Miss Muffet uses to eat her curds and whey. They are a lot of fun to look for!
Classroom use: This version of the Mother Goose rhymes can be used in a study of other versions of Mother Goose rhymes. It is always interesting to see how authors and children interpret rhymes in different ways. This book may also inspire teachers to have children illustrate their favorite nursery rhymes as they visualize them.
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