The Neighborhood Mother Goose

by Nina Crews

Book Overview

Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060515732
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Neighborhood Mother Goose

This is the fifth copy of this book that I have purchased for myself and as gifts. I am a mother, grandmother as well as being a preschool teacher for 30 years. The children in my class just love nursery rhymes and repeat them and fill in the word if I pause at the end of a line. I just love the pictures and this makes the rhymes more realistic in this day and age.

Multicultural

Excellent multicultural pictures - all shades of children and a nice collection of rhymes.

Making nursery rhymes relevant in my 21st-century classroom

As a music teacher in a city school, I have used this book to introduce children to nursery rhymes and to give those who already know them a new understanding. The photo illustrations are beautiful and depict the text using modern city-scape images. My students can interpret the meaning of these treasured old rhymes by looking at illustrations of kids who look just like they do. The book features photographs of children with different skin and hair colors, styles of dress, and kids of various ages.

Modernizing Mother Goose

Old nursery rhymes with a new look. If your child has ever wondered what "pickled peppers" were, pick up this very contemporary look at favorite rhymes. Illustrations are an update to the old style that left young ones wondering what some of the rhymes were about. Crews gives Mother Goose a new look that was long overdue. Kids love this one!

Everything Old Is New Again

We all know and love them, those little rhymes and verses we learned as children. Nina Crews brings new life to these timeless treasures in her book THE NEIGHBORHOOD MOTHER GOOSE. In the book, which includes over 40 rhymes and verses, she pairs such verses as "This little pig went to market," "Rain, rain, go away," and "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe" with her stunning photographic creations. The photographs feature children from a variety of cultural backgrounds, and as a result any child that reads the book is sure to find someone on the pages that look like them. I also liked the fact that the photos included both mothers AND fathers interacting with children in a positive way. This is a book that I highly recommend, because it can serve as a way that parents can share a part of their childhood with their children. Many of the collections of nursery rhymes that I have encountered include dated photographs that are not particularly exciting for today's children. The eye-popping and intricate photography is worthy of endless discussion in its own right. This book is definitely a must have for any young child's library. Reviewed by Stacey Seay of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers