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Marguerite De Angeli's Book of Nursery & Mother Goose Rhymes
One of the finest nursery rhyme books ever. Several beautiful color illustrations and many, many pencil illustrations: 192 pages of rhymes. I doubt there is any you can name that are not included.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
August 23rd 1954
by Doubleday Books for Young Readers
(first published 1954)
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A big book of nursery rhymes (some familiar, some not) with pencil illustrations, some in color. The sheer volume of rhymes included in this volume is impressive, but the formatting was a bit strange. The rhymes were arranged all over the pages. There was a small duck illustration (perhaps Mother Goose?) that seemed to serve as a visual barrier between rhymes, but more than once I found myself following the wrong path while reading and had to backtrack a little for things to make sense. There wa...more
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli (1954), a Caldecott Honor book, is an anthology of 376 rhymes with more than 260 beautiful illustrations for children of all ages. This is the most complete and traditional collection of nursery and Mother Goose rhymes, but it is not arranged in chapters. Throughout the book can be found examples of all poetic devices – alliteration, consonance, assonance and repetition, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper” (69), imagery, l...more
K-6th grades
Marguerite DeAngeli does such a wonderful job of compiling this awesome book of poems and rhymes. This book would appeal to anyone who has a fondness of poetry and nursery rhymes. This large book is full of words that use a musical and rhythmic patterns. It has all the elements of poetry, including rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. The book also has free verse as well as non verse. The text is slightly small, but many of the pages are covered with negative space, leavi...more
Marguerite DeAngeli does such a wonderful job of compiling this awesome book of poems and rhymes. This book would appeal to anyone who has a fondness of poetry and nursery rhymes. This large book is full of words that use a musical and rhythmic patterns. It has all the elements of poetry, including rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. The book also has free verse as well as non verse. The text is slightly small, but many of the pages are covered with negative space, leavi...more
Whoa! This isn't the best or the worst Caldecott, but at 188 pages it sure is the longest. And I finished it! It nonetheless is a treasure for all the rhymes gathered together in this anthology. I remember some of them from my childhood, while some are complete strangers and others are dark and/or weird. The illustrations feel like they're from a different era, which fits the book, but they aren't an asset to the reading. My favorite illustrations accompany "Old Mother Hubbard." Favorite rhyme i...more
While reading this book, it made me laugh a bit, there were times that I had to read some of the poems to one of my roommates. Then there were some poems that I thought that were not very nice especially for children, I do not know the name of the poem but it was about one bird killing another bird and different birds were doing to do different things, like an owl was going to dig the Robin's grave, a fish was going to get the bird's blood and so on. It was a poem that I do not know how I feel a...more
This book was going to get two stars because it isn't bad (could use some organization) but not really my cup of tea. Then I found this:
They that wash on Monday
Have all the week to dry;
They that wash on Tuesday
Are not so much awry;
They that wash on Wednesday
Are not so much to blame;
They that wash on Thursday
Wash for shame;
They that wash on Friday
Wash in need;
And they that wash on Saturday,
Oh! they're sluts indeed.
Which made me laugh out loud, which I really needed and if there is another meanin...more
They that wash on Monday
Have all the week to dry;
They that wash on Tuesday
Are not so much awry;
They that wash on Wednesday
Are not so much to blame;
They that wash on Thursday
Wash for shame;
They that wash on Friday
Wash in need;
And they that wash on Saturday,
Oh! they're sluts indeed.
Which made me laugh out loud, which I really needed and if there is another meanin...more
I liked most of the nursery rhymes, familiar and unfamiliar. For the most part however, I do not think it is appropriate for children-which is strange because mother goose and nursery rhymes are supposed to be for young children
A large book with plenty of nursery rhymes, spread out over the pages. The pictures are quite old-fashioned and many are not in color. This is definitely an older book, and it may not appeal to some kids today.
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Illustrations were okay. Had a huge number of rhymes, some of which I didn't realize were Nursery/Mother Goose rhymes, (fox went out on a chilly night, froggy went a courtin')
Have a first edition copy of this book signed by the author in 1959. Remember reading it as a kid and I do love the nursery rhymes. It's a great book for kids.
Quite a fun collection of nursery rhymes - I ran into a good handful I'd never heard before as well as many familiar favorites.
Beautiful collection.
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Read for #nerdcott. Reviewed in Caldecott Challenge Post #79: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
1955 Caldecott Honor
Favorite illustration: The black and white illustration for Little Bo-Peep
Kid-appeal: This is a giant volume at close to 200 pages that packed with lots of familiar and many lesser known rhymes will most likely enchant young readers. Each page has lots of illustrations either larger sketches, or smaller ones interspersed with the text. A few color plates are scattered throughout, but I actually prefer her black and white sketches. I think this would make a lovely gift for a y...more
Favorite illustration: The black and white illustration for Little Bo-Peep
Kid-appeal: This is a giant volume at close to 200 pages that packed with lots of familiar and many lesser known rhymes will most likely enchant young readers. Each page has lots of illustrations either larger sketches, or smaller ones interspersed with the text. A few color plates are scattered throughout, but I actually prefer her black and white sketches. I think this would make a lovely gift for a y...more
Reading it to my babies is a joy!
My favorite nursery rhyme book.
A classic!
Caldecott honor.
Caldecott honor.
My very first book!
May 01, 2013
Amanda
marked it as to-read
Apr 25, 2013
Emily Kennedy
marked it as to-read
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