Customer Reviews

Dan Yaccarino's Mother Goose (Little Golden Book)

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My one year old daughter really loves this book. Usually she is bored after several pages, but she wants me to read every page of this book. I wish Little Golden Books would publish a series.

Googling "Mother Goose" yields conflicting factoids. Maybe she was a colonial housewife who collected and edited old English rhymes. Maybe she was a French Queen with webbed toes (all that royal inbreeding, I guess) who loved a good story ... or the rhymes were or weren't meant as political satires. The explanation I found most satisfying is that these remnants of longer folk tales and narrative rhymes were passed down through countless generations and translated across languages and cultures.

Yaccarino brings a selection into our post-modern world with `50s-retro illustrations and a 21st century sensibility. Peter Piper picks chili peppers and Mary's little lamb stalks her by taxi. I would've loved more - where's the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker? And Mother Goose's poem is truncated to a single stanza. Maybe he thought little kids wouldn't sit still for more. Generations have proved him wrong.

I decided to buy this book for my daughter a few months ago because she really enjoyed "Unlovable", "Every Friday", and a couple others. It is a very good purchase for the price. Yaccarino has a great knack of detail in each story and it continues to grab the attention of any child that I read this to. If you are a fan of any of Yaccarino's work, you will enjoy this Little Golden Book.

Mother Goose Golden Book is excellent. I bought it to read to my 10 month old grandson and he loves it.

Golden boooks are the best for little ones!