A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) [Hardcover]

Kate Greenaway (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics

This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.

Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence–an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities–that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.

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About the Author

Kate Greenaway (1846—1901) was an English illustrator and watercolorist famous for her fanciful, humorous drawings of child life.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (November 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375415114
• ISBN-13: 978-0375415111
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.5 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #647,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important children's illustrators ever, December 16, 2005

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kaream - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (Hardcover)

While I'm not familiar with this specific Alfred A Knopf/Borzoi/Everyman's Library/Children's Classic edition, I do have an earlier edition of Kate Greenaway's "A Apple Pie", as well as copies of most of her other work for children. Together with Randolph Caldecott she was one of the most important and influential illustrators of young children's books and rhymes of the late 19th Century, and indeed of all time.

All of these Everyman's Library/Children's Classic books are sturdily bound with sewn sections that will not crack apart like so many books more cheaply constructed, and are an excellent value.

A minor note of clarification for anyone reading "A Apple Pie" aloud who may stumble at the "E - Eat" entry: like all the other verbs used to dispose of the Apple Pie down through the alphabet, this is a past tense form. Here "Eat" is an archaic form of "ate", and is properly pronounced "et" rather than "eet". Of course "Ate" doesn't work as an example of the letter "E".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous illustrations, classic nursery rhymes, March 11, 2007

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This review is from: A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (Hardcover)

This slender volume contains a number of well known--and some lesser known--nursery rhymes with Greenaway's justifiably famous illustrations, in addition to her fully illustrated A Apple Pie book. This is very much worth it and was my son's favorite book for several months!