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

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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".

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!