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Denslow's Mother Goose by W.W. Denslow

simona_cristea's review

2.0

This made me a bit uncomfortable while reading it. Probably because it was written in the 1900s but I felt like some of the things in there had a racist undertone (there is a drawing of a maid and she is of color) and I also didn't like that at the end there is a boy clipping a goose's wings (don't see the reason why or what good thing it can teach a child). I wouldn't read this to a kid.

t2p's review

2.0

This compilation of 42 classic nursery rhymes and poems features artwork by the original illustrator of L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. The stylized images, while likely considered colorful and whimsical in 1901, seem muted and odd by modern standards. Among the pictures are several that are racially and culturally inappropriate, including a depiction of an Indian man in “There was a fat man of Bomaby,” a black servant in “Poor old Robinson Crusoe,” and Native Americans in “Hush-a-bye, baby.”