The real Dada Mother Goose : a treasury of complete nonsense
Record details
- ISBN: 0763694347
- ISBN: 9780763694340
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Physical Description:
72 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright." |
Summary, etc.: | The classic nursery rhymes we know and love--upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds--as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism’s rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright’s The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or not quite together) in every clever way possible. One by one, cherished nursery rhymes--from "Humpty Dumpty" to "Hickory Dickory Dock," "Jack Be Nimble" to "Mother Hubbard"--fall prey to sly subversion as master of fracture Jon Scieszka and acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman refashion them into comics strips, errant book reports, anagrams, and manic mash-ups. Playfully reconstructed, the thirty-six old-new rhymes invite further baloney, bringing kids in on the joke and inviting them to revel in reimagining. Featuring robust back matter, this irreverent take on the rhymes of childhood is a great gift for child readers, a rich classroom resource across grade levels, and a love song to a living language. |
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Subject: | Nursery rhymes, English Juvenile fiction Nursery rhymes Juvenile fiction Children's poetry Juvenile fiction Fairy tales Wit and humor, Juvenile |
Genre: | Fairy tales. Nursery rhymes. Picture books. |
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- 26 of 27 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
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Rowayton Library | J SCI (Text) | 33625122948289 | Juvenile Red Dot | Available | - |