Green Tiger's Illustrated Mother Goose

Book Overview

The nursery rhymes which we attribute to a mythical Mother Goose are the anonymous poems which have survived hundreds of years because of their popularity with small children, and the ease with which... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883211859
• ISBN13: 9781883211851
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Laughing Elephant
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

One of my daughter's favorites

I received this as a gift at my daughter's baby shower and instantly fell in love with the illustrations. I started reading it to her when she was an infant. She is 19 months old and still loves it. She'll sit on my lap from first page to last and want to know about everything on each page. It also gives me something to recite during the day and on long car rides. Now I buy it for shower gifts for all of my friends and family.

A beautiful book to treasure!

This Green Tiger's Publication of Mother Goose Rhymes is my 2 year old's favorite book to read. It has a great selection of nursery rhymes, and some have several verses. Each nursery rhyme is given two pages, with two accompanying vintage illustrations for each rhyme. My daughter loves to gaze at the old-fashioned paintings and woodcut illustrations while I read the rhymes. She never gets tired of it! It was given to us as a gift when my daughter was born, and I'm now purchasing several copies to give to my friends babies. Highly recommended.

Mother Goose

Beautiful vintage illustrations that make the perfect gift for a new grandchild. I was very pleased with this book. All nursery rhymes are presented beautifully in alphabetical order. I would purchase this book again for a keepsake gift.

Wonderful Edition of Mother Goose

My wife and I had been searching for a high-quality, hardback edition of Mother Goose both to read to our daughter and to treat as a keepsake, and we struggled to find something we were happy with. This edition ended our search - it is just fantastic. It has a great range of nursery rhymes - all the traditional ones and plenty of less common ones; and each nursery rhyme is accompanied by two beautiful illustrations (that come from notable illustrators from the turn of the century through the 40's and 50's). The production quality is very high for the whole book - especially the illustrations. And my daughter loves it...she asks for it every night, stares intently at the illustrations, and has started repeating the rhymes throughout the day. The book has preserved the traditional language of the nursery rhymes as well, for better or for worse depending on what you are looking for. Some of the language is very British, and there has been no modern updating of either language or themes for any of the nursery rhymes - something that some Mother Goose books have taken on. All in all, we have just been thrilled with this book. It has absolutely served the purpose of being fun and readable and being a special, high quality edition worthy of treating as a keepsake/special book.

A Classic to Keep For Years

This is a truly beautiful book. The illustrations are museum like quality -- no amateur artists here. The selection of Mother Goose tales is impressive. The paper is thick stock, high grade. This is a book that you will want to keep for many years, that both children and adults will enjoy.