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My Very First Mother Goose (Reading Together)
Iona Opie

Walker Books Ltd, 2001 - 32 pages

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Dickory Dickory Dock?

I was brought up with the rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock" but it appears in this book as "Dickory Dickory Dock". Perhaps someone out there could explain this different version.

Overall, I like the lovely illustrations, large collection of rhymes (some I have never seen before) and creative layout of the words, however my toddler prefers the Lamaze boardbook of Mother Goose with its durable, easy-to-flip pages. Also, the illustrations, though lovely and imaginative, are a bit sophisticated for the youngest readers. For instance, Humpty-Dumpty is not an egg-shaped character but a tiny, faceless, edible white-shelled egg. Jack and Jill are rabbits not children as are most of the other traditionally human characters.

My advice is to buy this book for its extensive collection of rhymes and beautiful and artistic illustrations, BUT you may want a simple, traditional Mother Goose on hand as well for daily reading.


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The best Mother Goose we've seen

We have several different collections of Mother Goose rhymes, and this is by far the best, both in terms of its illustrations and layout and in terms of the rhymes chosen. Our 22-month-old son loves this book -- he calls it "Mama Guck" (his version of "Mother Goose") and both he and we recommend it highly.

I think it's especially nice that this book contains none of the more ugly and/or overly violent Mother Goose rhymes which sometimes turn up in other collections (those icky ones with lines like "Taffy was a Welshman/Taffy was a cheat", "And whipped her little daughter/For spoiling her nice new clothes", etc.) -- all the rhymes here are ones I really want my son to know.


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Apparently toddlers LOVE repitition

My 14mo old daughter will bring this book to me 3-4 times a day so I can read it to her. She absolutely loves it, and doesn't seem to get tired of the rhymes. I may have to buy another copy soon as she's not real gentile with books, but it will be money well spent. This beats a Barney or Teletubbies video hands down for educational value, and lives WITH her toys, not up on some bookshelf. I highly recommend it.






Best of class - superb

Iona Opie spent her life collecting children's folklore. The selection of nursery rhymes in this book shows the knowledge of what children really have an affinity for that she gained over that time. This is not a collection of what adults think children ought to lie - it's a collection of what they do like.

The illustrations and the layout of the book continue the quality of what children like. The layout gives no more than one rhyme per page. This limits the contents of the book but matches the attention space of the age the book targets. The illustrations are not of humans but of animals in the lineage of Richard Scarry, the Bernsteins, etc. This gives the book a cozy, lap feeling that is age appropriate.

Grandchildren and grandnieces/nephews have all received this book. In all cases it became the Mother Goose of choice for parent and child. That is the best recommendation the book could have.


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Sweet, Fun Mother Goose for Little Ones

My son is 18 months old and absolutely loves this wonderful book. He enjoys having any book read to him, but Mother Goose's frequent references to the sun, moon, stars (all favorites topics to my son)and Rosemary Wells' charming illustrations of bunnies, kitties, etc. add up to pure reading fun at our house. These nursery rhymes aren't too intense (some Mother Goose can be downright scary), and are just the right length for a 1- to 2-year old's attention span. And I enjoyed getting to know some nursery rhymes I missed out on as a child (Wibbleton to Wobbleton is a hoot). A few of the book's pages have been ripped in my son's enthusiasm for the subject matter, but this book is a nice change from our dozens of board books at home. I highly recommend this book for toddlers who enjoy being read to and for parents who love to do the reading.


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