Author: J.otto Seibold
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publish Date: September, 2010
Hardcover, 80 pages
ISBN 10: 0811868826
ISBN 13: 9780811868822
GoodReads description:
It's Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet, Little Boy Blue, and more, like you've never seen them before! Renowned artist J.otto Seibold re-nursuries and re-rhymes over the Mother Goose classics in this must-have collection. Featuring recurring characters and an ending that brings everyone back for a showstopping finale, this book is the most fun dear old Mother Goose has ever had!
My Take: I was lucky enough to win this book as part of a children's book prize package from Debbie's World of Books. Before I could get the books catalogued (Goodreads, LibraryThing, Shelfari) and put away for Christmas presents for the Grandbebes, Bebe Boy James saw them. AND he took two of them for himself, including this one!
BUT the grandbebes were all visiting yesterday, and they wanted Gigi Storytime, so James brought this book out for us. Grandbebes' ages: 5, 4, 3, and 1. The older girls oohed and aahed over the cover ("It has sparklies on it, Gigi!") and they kept feeling it up (because it's textured too). Grandbebe Girl Makayla thought it tasted pretty good, as she kept trying to chew on the corner of the cover, and Grandbebe Boy JoJo: "Cool pictures, Gigi!". That was all before I even got to open the book!
Finally, after a number of ominous threats about them NOT being able to see the INSIDE of the book, I was able to get the grandbebes all to sit down in a floor circle (well, arc), while I, Queen Gigi Storyteller, FINALLY opened the book.
The book opening caused all of my storytelling planning to go out the window, as four little ones scrambled up so they could touch the book again. "Pretty pretty pictures, Gigi!" As the older tots pushed in, Grandbebe Girl Makayla was once again able to get a good taste, since she was in the front and her face was kinda squished against the cover of the book.
It took a while to get through this one. "OOH, look at that bird!" "THAT'S not how you say that rhyme; HERE'S how you say it!" "Look at what they're doing to that shoe!" ... but I think they liked it, as they wanted me to read it AGAIN.
THEN their moms started in. "Mom, why don't you give ME that book?" "NO! I asked first!" "No; your brother saw it and claimed it already" .. and ... sigh ... well, I live in a real house, with real bebes and grandbebes. I always have this wonderful, serene picture in my head of quietly attentive grandbebes sitting in a circle and pointing from afar at the pictures while I read. Wouldn't THAT be lovely?
So, anyway, this book is gorgeous. The illustrations are lavish and richly colored and just plain awesome. The rhymes are indeed re-mastered, and I'm not really certain that the grandbebes understood all of them, but it's big and it's pretty and they all want it, which means that I have to buy at least two more copies for Christmas (one for each household).
I think you should buy it too.
Book Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (only because some of the rhymes were 'over the heads' of the grandbebes)
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2 comments:
Yay! So glad it was a hit.
Sounds like a fun book for the wee ones for sure!
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