Little Boy Blue: and Other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose) [Board book]

Iona Opie (Editor), Rosemary Wells (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 0 and up | Series: My Very First Mother Goose

Inspired by our exciting new Gift Line.

Resized and featuring new covers, these bright board books based on MY VERY FIRST MOTHER GOOSE the award-winning modern day classic, bring timeless poems to the youngest children. Each of the four enchanting board books contains eight favorite rhymes collected in their most perfect form by folklorist Iona Opie. Every rhyme is accompanied by the incomparable art of Rosemary Wells, illustrations that THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW called "irresistible." Large letters and sturdy board pages make these treasures indispensable for any nursery.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS--Sixteen selections included in My Very First Mother Goose (Candlewick, 1996) are presented in board-book format. The lively watercolor-and-ink illustrations are identical to the original and often larger, although some pictures have been omitted in a few instances to avoid overcrowding the smaller space. Each rhyme appears in a double-page spread on a colored background that picks up a tone in the illustration. The print is smaller than in the original, but the text is laid out in much the same way or in logical phrases. Libraries that own the earlier book may still wish to purchase these sturdier, smaller books for their youngest patrons.

Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community-Technical College, CT

Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 0 and up
  
• Board book: 16 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick; Brdbk edition (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076361629X
• ISBN-13: 978-0763616298
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,466,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute book, but the rhymes aren't as we remembered them, May 29, 2000

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Jim Carson "http://www.jimcarson.com" (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Boy Blue: and Other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose) (Board book)

My daughter was given a few of these Opie and Wells books andthey fare about "average" in her collection.

We (parents)would like them better if the verses weren't changed from what we remember. For example, instead of "Hickory Dickory Dock," they use "Dickory dickory dock."

An informal search on [a website] shows >1600 matches for "Hickory" and 9 for "Dickory," so the former is clearly more common. As best as we can determine, the original was published in 1744 as "Hickere, Dickere, Dock" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book II by Mary Cooper. The French version has its opening: "Digerie, digerie, doge.")

Layout of some of the verses could be improved. For example, the first few times we read "The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh," we didn't 'get' the rhythm because the verse is written vertically with awkward spacing. (In this instance, it's best to sing it as a song.)

On the plus side, we hadn't seen the "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton" rhyme before. Our daughter seems to like filling in the "fifteen miles."...

5.0 out of 5 stars My one-year old loves this book!, October 31, 1999

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Bruce Biewald (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Boy Blue: and Other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose) (Board book)

This book of simple rhymes and funny pictures can be read over and over. My one year old laughs out load, even though we've read the book hundreds of times.