Mother Goose's Little Treasures (My Very First Mother Goose) - Hardcover
The world’s most respected Mother Goose folklorist reunites with one of the great illustrators of our time to present a rare selection of rhymes to share and treasure.
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Iona Opie (1923-2017) was considered the world's leading expert on children's lore and literature. She edited many acclaimed books, including I Saw Esau, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Of Mother Goose's Little Treasures, she said that the rhymes "are the most mysterious fragments from our shared memory: long-ago laughter of little meaning and echoes of ancient spells."
Rosemary Wells is a well-loved and prolific creator of picture books with a career that spans more than thirty years. Her books include the famed Mother Goose anthologies and Felix and the Worrier. She lives in Connecticut.
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Rosemary Wells is a well-loved and prolific creator of picture books with a career that spans more than thirty years. Her books include the famed Mother Goose anthologies and Felix and the Worrier. She lives in Connecticut.
PreS—This third collection by Opie and Wells includes 22 less-familiar rhymes. According to Opie's introduction, "...the little treasures in this book...are the most mysterious fragments of our shared memory." Some rhymes are silly ("Little old dog sits under a chair,/Twenty-five grasshoppers/snarled in his hair....") Others are surreal. For example, "Mother, May I?" poses the question, "Mother, may I go out swimming?," which is answered, "Yes, my darling daughter;/Hang your clothes on a hickory limb,/But don't go near the water." Meanwhile, the picture shows a little girl, waist-deep in a pool, pulling a little boat and holding a doll that looks just like the little girl, which does transform this playful verse into something, yes, mysterious. Many of the characters make multiple appearances, and many are Wells's characteristic rabbits and cats. The very nature of this book makes it a less-essential purchase than this team's My Very First Mother Goose (1996) or Here Comes Mother Goose (1999, both Candlewick), so possibly only larger collections or libraries with lots of Rosemary Wells fans will want it.—Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 076363655X
- ISBN 13 9780763636555
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages56
- IllustratorWells Rosemary
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