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libraryalexa's review against another edition
Read 6/4/15
All of the old rhymes and jingles that were from childhood paired with pictures
All of the old rhymes and jingles that were from childhood paired with pictures
maidmarianlib's review
4.0
Old fashioned rhymes, some familiar others not so much. Complex water illustrations.
jmshirtz's review against another edition
5.0
Definitely one of my favorite Caldecott winners! The illustrations are perfect and precious. It's all very cute-sy, but I love that. It's amazing how much a simple nursery rhyme can change since 1945, but it was great fun reading a previous version of many of them. My favorite would have to be:
"Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was black as tar.
And everywhere that Mary went
They thought it was a b-a-a-r."
Love it!
"Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was black as tar.
And everywhere that Mary went
They thought it was a b-a-a-r."
Love it!
emkoshka's review against another edition
3.0
A fun collection of traditional American rhymes and jingles, beautifully illustrated in the soft tones and style of the day (1940s). Some of these were familiar to me from my childhood but most were, understandably, foreign in their Americanness. It made me marvel at how we seemingly absorb playground rhymes by osmosis; I don't remember anyone ever reading them to me and yet I started school prepared to play.
libscote's review
2.0
This is the other of the Caldecott Medal books that I've read so far that I didn't really enjoy. The rhymes are very old-fashioned, and some of them don't even make sense any more.
beecheralyson's review against another edition
4.0
I need to figure out how to incorporate this one into the curriculum. So many of my ELL's have no clue of these traditional rhymes and yet there are references throughout our language and language arts curriculum.
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