A traditional cumulative rhyme, featuring wonderful detailed illustrations, evokes the sounds of the farmyard that steadily build as the animals are fed by a young girl.
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From Publishers Weekly
Morley (Dots and Spots; The Tapestry Cats) offers a stylized, elegant version of the cumulative rhyme also known as "Cat Says Fiddle-i-fee." Farmyard animals are introduced one by one, along with their corresponding sounds: "I had a hen and the hen pleased me/ I fed my hen by yonder tree;/ Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck,/ Cat goes fiddle-i-fee." Cut-paper compositions are at once primitive and delicate, a juxtaposition that in itself creates an appealing whimsy. Morley's human characters (the narrator seems to change from verse to verse) are slim and elongated, and dressed in a variety of arrestingly patterned garments; her animals are placid, even decorous creatures of similarly high design. Visually entrancing-however, the deliberately refined approach mutes the rhyme's inherent boisterousness, a considerable price to pay. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Pre-K?In this straightforward presentation of the traditional song (no sources cited, and no music provided), "Pigs goes griffy, gruffy," "Hen goes chimmy-chuck, chimmy-chuck," and, of course, "Cat goes fiddle-i-fee." Children used to "Old MacDonald" may well wonder about the uncharacteristic farmyard sounds mingled with the more familiar ones in this cumulative, nonsense chant. Morley's artsy illustrations show elongated figures, interestingly balanced in dynamic symmetry, floating in large areas of white. The highly decorative patterns incorporate swooping lines, tendrils, squiggles, abstract flowers and trees, and minimized animals. Greens, blue-greens, tans, and red-browns dominate but are sparked occasionally with spots of bright pink, purple, orange, and yellow to enhance the energy of the work, which is elegant and unusual. A visual treat for small groups or one-on-one sharing.?Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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