Enchants my 2-year-old every day, for 30-45 minutes

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	• My Very First Mother Goose (Reading Together) Iona Opie Walker Books Ltd, 2001 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews
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Most of the good mother goose rhymes but...

This has most of the good mother goose rhymes, but isn't the rhyme- hickory dickory dock- not dickory, dickory dock? That one rhyme seems to be misspelled. Everything else is good. SOme of the ryhmes I've never heard of, but they seem to be the old English ones.

Mom's favorite "big" book

Of the larger books I read to my daughter (now 7 months), I grab this one most often. Each rhyme has such unique illustrations that I spend extra time on each page pointing out the images to my daughter. Many of the characters are adorable. The book is long enough that we get through only a fraction of the book at each sitting, yet it's not so heavy as some larger books. Many of the nursery rhymes are unfamiliar to me, which also makes it interesting for me.

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Perfect for the younger ones!

My daughter is two and a half and loves this book! It is perfect for bed time reading because you can read a lot or a little of the book. The illustrations are beautiful and reminiscent to me of some of the books I loved as a kid.

Enchants my 2-year-old every day, for 30-45 minutes

My son first latched on to this Mother Goose collection at about 21 months, and for the last 3 months, we've read the whole thing through nearly every day. He'll spend 30 or 45 mintues with me, reading the rhymes, enjoying the songs (there are several for which the tunes are fairly well known), and looking forward to the ones such as "patty cake" which have a game attached to them. While he's got a pretty decent attention span for his age, this is by far the activity he'll do for the longest time. He's starting to learn the rhymes himself now, and it's become a very participatory activity to read it with him. I'm enjoying it tremendously, with the warm and fuzzy, family-celebrating illustrations, the inclusion of many of my childhood favorites, and some old rhymes which are new to me, and very charming (Wibbleton to Wobbleton, for example, and The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley Oh). I've hidden the other Mother Goose collections we were given as gifts, because I find this by far the most appealing, in its choices of rhymes and songs, the charm of its illustrations, and its uncrowded layouts which don't squeeze too much text onto the pages.

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non-smarmy, non-creepy illustrations

Rosemary Wells's pictures are cute without being smarmy or excessively detailed. I find I don't get sick of the illustrations the way I do with other artists' renditions.

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