Customer Reviews

A Treasury of Mother Goose

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My children, now 10 & 8 loved this book. It has all the nursery rhymes I had forgotten and more.

My mother ordered this book for my sister's baby because she wanted a good source of Mother Goose Rhymes (every child should know them!). Unfortunately, this book does not fit the bill. The rhymes are all there, but the illustrations are definitely lacking. Some are not even colored and are too small to see. My mother was profoundly disappointed, and I was too when we saw the book. I know there's a good Mother Goose book out there. This one is not it.

My three-year-old daughter loves this book! She loves the illustrations. One problem - she doesn't know what a lot of them mean, and truthfully, sometimes neither do I. While some of the characters are mainstays of our culture, like Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater and Jack Sprat, others could be very easily forgotten.

I read this book to all four of my children. It is fantastic and has more nursery rhymes than most other books. My children have loved it so much, they are now ordering it as adults. Our book has fallen apart from so much use. I read it to the children I babysit, and they love it. A must for any child to learn to read and develop a love of reading. Reading, the fundamental building block of a good education.

I had this book when I was a kid and spent some time trying to find it for my own son and future children. It has tons of nursery rhymes and fantastic illustrations. The hardcover and thicker pages are great when little hands get a hold of it. I was very pleased to find this book and even more happy that I found the book that 20 years ago kept me entertained and taught me how to read.

This is a pretty little book, although I wouldn't read most of them to my little girl because I had no idea what the "real" mother goose stories were like!

My memories of Mother Goose Rhymes are colorful. If yours are the same you might not like this book, as only every other double page is colored. The pages that are colored are beautiful. Perhaps you would enjoy coloring it yourself, as I have considered. If you have a child or grandchild who would like to share time with you coloring the pages as you read/discuss the rhymes, this is the book for you, otherwise there are many colorful alternatives available. Wish I had heeded the reviews.ccccccccc

This is a wonderful book for reading to children. I purchased this from Amazon.com because I was unable to find it in stores where I live. I will be ordering again.

I was so excited to have ordered this book, and then when it finally arrived, I was sorely disappointed. The illustrations are too scary for my 4 year old, especially the man in the moon, which I had to black out with a permanent marker. I wish I wouldn't have bought this.