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mrsbond's review against another edition
3.0
Collection of common and not so common nursery rhymes. Brightly colored illustrations.
cetaylor05's review against another edition
4.0
Based wherever possible on the classic rhymes as collected by Peter and Iona Opie, dePaola opens his own collection with the tale of Old Mother Goose and her hapless son Jack. Thereafter, longer tentpole tales are spaced regularly throughout, separated from one another by shorter stories, with some taking up a page with text and illustration while other tiny verses are arranged several to a page, sometimes spanning openings with similarly-themed illustrations. dePaola’s illustrations are filled with simple, muted hues with a distinct lack of shadow which, in combination with a use of line, promotes the human scale of the narratives -- fuzzy even at its sharpest -- and creates an atmosphere of gentleness which would seem to suit the familiar and often archaic lines even when they veer into the horrific. The young reader will be drawn in by the friendly, engaging, and expressive images, and is likely to construct expectations of the stories before beginning to read them. However, reading from Mother Goose may prove challenging despite the simple diction and rhyming structure due to the frequent use of approximate rhymes and dated cultural references. Nonetheless, the collection fittingly concludes with a series of time-honored lullabies.
panda_incognito's review against another edition
3.0
The illustrations are lovely, and I enjoyed the book for them and my favorite classic nursery rhymes, but I forgot how many Mother Goose entries are complete nonsense or totally violent.
bookdingo's review against another edition
4.0
The kids love it...so long as you sing the rhymes. Otherwise, gtfo.
booksnwhiskey's review against another edition
4.0
I love Tomie dePaola's illustrations which are covering each page with a nursery rhyme. There are many, many rhymes of which I have heard over and over, and some I have never heard at all. It is not a heavy large book so this is a perfect collection in my eyes.
nikkigee81's review against another edition
4.0
Some very familiar, as well as not-so-familiar, nursery rhymes in this collection, pulled at random from a library shelf; we are discussing nursery rhymes this week in class discussion. This is a beautiful, old-time collection with fantastic illustrations that look like paintings. There is an index by first line, but no titles on the rhymes/poetry themselves, although they seem to have an organizational structure.
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