Michael Foreman's Mother Goose
by Michael Foreman
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Author: Michael ForemanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-09-15
ISBN: 0152558209
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Book Reviews of Michael Foreman's Mother Goose
Book Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
The kids & I truly enjoy this book. We read a few pages each night.
This book has over 150 pages of children's poems. Some we're familiar with such as: Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle cam to town,
Riding on a pony.
He stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni
Others I'd never heard of: I Can
I can tie my shoelace
I can comb my hair
I can wash my hands and face
And dry myself with care.
I can brush my teeth, too,
And button up my frocks:
I can say, How do you do?
And put on both my socks.
As the poet John Clare said in 1825, nursery rhymes "live on as common to memory as the seasons, and as familiar to children even as the rain and spring flowers."
Everyone is familiar with the efficacy of Little Jack Horner's thumb, the sad state of Mother Hubbard's cupboard, and the inadequate reason for the quarrel between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, so that a passing reference to any of these characters requires no further explanations. Wherever the English tongue is spoken, the "lingua franca" of nursery rhymes has been used to tell jokes and sell merchandise. Poets, too, have borrowed the old magic of phrases like "Over the hills and far away" to launch themselves on fresh odysseys.
To a child, nursery rhymes are full of satisfactions: other people's misdemeanors (Little Boy Blue) and disasters (Dr. Foster), romances (Lilies are White, Rosemary's Green): amazements (Robin & Bobbin) and mysterries (Ladybug, Ladybug): irrefutable logic (Jumping Joan) and happy accompaniments to the first steps in learning (A was and Apple Pie: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe). Their charm lies in their poeticality, and in the effortless absurdity with which porridge and pipes and pussy cats appear in improbable contexts.
To an adult, the rhymes are, above all, serviceable. Some can lull or excite the smallest infant, others can transfix a two-year old in mid-rampage, as well as distract him. On dismal gray afternoons a nursery rhyme book can hold spellbount a whole houseful of malcontents -
Especially, if, like this book, it is illustrated by an artist who possesses tremendous talent. The artwork is fantastic. There's a water color drawing for & related to each poem.
Summary of Michael Foreman's Mother Goose
This Mother Goose collection contains more than two hundred of the best-known and best-loved rhymes. Each double-page spread presents thematic groups of rhymes that have clever visual links to the ones that follow. ?If a bookshelf has room for only one Mother Goose, this volume should be a top contender.?--Publishers Weekly
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