Other Goose: Re-Nurseried!! and Re-Rhymed!! Childrens Classics

Other Goose: Re-Nurseried!! and Re-Rhymed!! Childrens Classics

It's Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet, Little Boy Blue, and more, like you've never seen them before! Renowned artist J.otto Seibold re-nursuries and re-rhymes over the Mother Goose classics in this must-have collection. Featuring recurring characters and an ending that brings everyone back for a showstopping finale, this book is the most fun dear old Mother Goose has ever had! Kindergarten-Grade 5—With its color-saturated pop-art cover featuring a modish Mother Goose wielding a can of spray paint, this is not your traditional nursery rhyme book. And that's unquestionably the point. Several dozen familiar nursery rhymes have been "re-nurseried, re-rhymed, re-mothered and re-goosed" to produce "Little Asleep Bo Peep," "Mary Had a Little Band," "Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away," "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Sneaker," and so on. The fractured rhymes are hip and jokey but presuppose familiarity with the original versions for readers to appreciate them, and the poetic underpinnings of meter and rhyme sometimes lapse. Indeed, these modernized rhymes serve primarily as a vehicle for the wildly detailed artwork, which is the real strength here. Bold and richly hued illustrations, both computer-generated and produced using spray paint on wood panels, drench every page with jazzy, chaotic, and contemporary detail and visual gags. The multitudes of cartoonlike characters, some rather sinister looking, bear the artist's trademark elliptical black bug eyes. There's nothing overly warm and fuzzy here—these rhymes are a sophisticated riff that will appeal to some children but possibly more to adults.— Kathleen Finn, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, VT (c) Copyright 2011.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. “There was an old woman / who lived in a sneaker. / She had a great big stereo speaker.” In the spirit of Mother Goose rhymes, many of which started as parodies, the silly rhymes and wild, vibrantly colored pictures in this picture-book collection bring the nonsense up-to-date with technological and cultural references kids will recognize and silliness that is universal. Kids will enjoy the new twists on familiar scenes that range from Humpty Dumpty at the mall to Jack Splat, whose paintings are abstract, while his wife’s are country scenes. “It’s raining, it’s boring,” is for all ages, but most of the farce and the wordplay are for sharing and reading aloud with older grade-schoolers, who will best appreciate the satire and puns as well as the busy, full-page computer graphics. As Seibold says about nursery rhymes, “The rhyme gets stuck in your head,” and these selections will make great partners with the classics. Grades 2-5. --Hazel Rochman "...brings the nonsense up-to-date with technological and cultural references kids will recognize and silliness that is universal....these selections will make great partners with the classics."--Booklist "...brings the nonsense up-to-date with technological and cultural references kids will recognize and silliness that is universal....these selections will make great partners with the classics."--Booklist "...brings the nonsense up-to-date with technological and cultural references kids will recognize and silliness that is universal....these selections will make great partners with the classics."--Booklist J.otto Seibold has illustrated, and in some cases also written, 15 books for children, including Vunce Upon a Time, Penguin Dreams, the Mr. Lunch books, and Olive, the Other Reindeer. He lives in Oakland, California.