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Generations of children have grown up with "The Bear Went over the Mountain," "Lazy Mary," and "Yankee Doodle." here is a collection that includes these, and many more of the favorite playtime rhymes that are a lasting part of America's -- and childhood's -- heritage.
Maud and Miska Petersham's classic illustrations bring this "American Mother Goose" to life, in a way sure to charm both children and adults.
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Patty-cake, patty-cake, Baker's man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it up and roll it up.
And put it in the pan.
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider and sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
Copyright © 1945 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © renewed 1973 by Miska F. Petersham
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Famous and not-so-famous rhymes, many uniquely American.,
By R. D. Allison (dallison@biochem.med.ufl.edu) (Gainesville, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rooster Crows : A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (Paperback)
A very nice collection of rhymes for children, most of which are uniquely American. This is not only a nice little book for children and for the serious student of children literature (it won the 1946 Caldecott Medal for best illustration in a book for children), it is also a source of Americana.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Peas with Honey,
By teachuh (Chicago, Il USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rooster Crows : A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (Hardcover)
This book was the staple of my rocking chair reading as a child, and it spurred my imagination in a dozen ways. First my mother read them to me, then the book became my own. Thirty years since I last pressed my face to its pages, I raised it with my Creative Writing students this morning in modeling a poetry exercise about how words first impact our lives. There is something other-worldly about the illustrations here, too -- surreal perhaps, even unsettling in the way the best art is. I don't pretend that the verse or the images are cutting edge, or high art, but there is in them something wonderfully off-kilter, and soothing at the same time.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A wonderful collection,
This review is from: The Rooster Crows : A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (Paperback)
I love this book and enjoy reading it to my daughter. She loves it, because she has a sense of reading, having memorized many of the verses. It is a wonderful collection of children's rhymes and verses. I feel a real continuity between my own childhood and my daughter's by sharing these with her, as my own mother and grandmother shared these same rhymes with me. A treasure to keep.
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