Mother Goose's Playtime Rhymes

Axel Scheffler's Mother Goose

by Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)

Once there was a mother goose who had three little goslings, Boo, Lucy and Small. Her playful young family could be a handful at times but luckily Mother Goose soon discovered that they loved listening to traditional nursery rhymes.

Now all the goslings' favourite playtime rhymes are collected in this book for you and your family to enjoy.

Genres: Picture Books, Poetry, Childrens

31 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2008

About the author

Axel was born in Hamburg, Germany. At school he was good at art, but didn’t think of a career in illustration until he won a cuddly purple cow in a drawing competition.

He moved to England in 1982 to learn English and study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art and then set up home in London. Axel illustrated a number of books for various publishers, and in 1993 Kate suggested him as the illustrator for Julia Donaldson’s first picture book text, A Squash and a Squeeze. This was the start of a hugely successful partnership: their bestselling modern classic, The Gruffalo, has sold over three-and-a-half million copies worldwide, and the TV animation was broadcast on Christmas day 2009.

Axel has illustrated a number of other highly successful books, including Muddle Farm, and his books have been translated into 42 languages.

Axel lives in London with his partner and young daughter.

from http://nosycrow.com/authors-etc/axel-...

Reviews

[Gerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boo, Lucy and Small are Mother Goose's three goslings and they have a lot to learn so, as well as teaching them to swim and to fly, Mother Goose also spends playtime telling them some of her favourite rhymes.

And here is a collection of those rhymes, exactly as told to Boo, Lucy and Small and many of them as told to us as young children. It is a pleasure to relive them, especially with Axel Scheffler's superb illustrations.

Included are Georgie Porgie who is still kissing the girls and making them cry, Jack and Jill who tumbles down the hill because one of Axel Scheffler's frogs appears on the sill of the well, The Grand Old Duke of York with his 10,000 men, Mary who takes her lamb to school, Humpty Dumpty who still falls off the wall plus two with which I was not familiar, 'As I Went to Bonner' and 'Froggy, Froggy'. And there are other old favourites to complete the collection.

Alison Green also provides a storyline thread about the goslings as they grow up that runs through the book in between the rhymes .

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Не в захваті, чесно кажучи, від перекладу (хоча є вдалі знахідки), але обожнюю оригінальні віршики і ілюстрації пречудові. Чітаріум як завжди молодці)

[Gerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Axel Scheffler's book begins with Mother Goose having laid three eggs and when her goslings hatched she called them Boo, Lucy and Small. They were playful little goslings but the thing that they loved best of all was when Mother Goose told them nursery rhymes. Mother Goose knew all sorts of rhymes, noisy ones, quiet ones, rhymes to lull them to sleep and rhymes to read together. This set a trend and it wasn't long before other mother geese started to tell the rhymes to their own goslings.

And so, the rhymes are now gathered in this book for parents and children to join in the fun and read them, preferably aloud, together. There should be a CD with this volume so that readers can hear them, too, but my book has the CD missing so I have to make do with my own voice! Axel Scheffler has provided brilliant illustrations to accompany the rhymes that perhaps many of us will not have heard since we, or our children, were young.

There's little Miss Muffet who was frightened away, Jack and Jill who still fell down the hill, The Grand Old Duke of York who was marching his men up and down a hill, Polly who puts the kettle on, Old King Cole who was, as we all know, a merry old soul, Humpty Dumpty who was in pieces when he fell off the wall, a Mulberry Bush that we all went round, Sing a Song of Sixpence featuring a pie set before a king, Monday's Child through to Sunday's child and finally Mary who was quite contrary.

They are all worth reading out aloud, especially to, or with the children and Axel Scheffler's illustrations make it a delightful book to be enjoyed by children and adults alike.

[Matthew Juffs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of nursery rhymes - many I'd forgotten, some I hadn't even heard! They're punctuated with an ongoing story about Mother Goose and her three goslings, who are fascinated with the world around them and the rhymes.

My only criticism and the reason I've put 4 stars, is that some rhymes seem cut short from what I remember.

[Isobel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good rhyming book to read with reception children and it can be used to introduce children to the form of poetry.

[Jacques Retief · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brought back a lot of childhood memories. Some rhymes i remembered, some i didn't. Reliving my youth!

[Fiona place · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my nieces favourite books

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bedtime stories count towards my 2025 reading goal right?

[VBergen · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a good book to read and watch with the little ones, but not to give them on their hands because the pages are sharp. It has lots of nice and colorful images.