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Meet familiar friends and new neighbors in this playful collection of nursery rhymes. On a misty, moisty morning, we meet the snoring old man, and by evening we're running through the town with Wee Willie Winkie in his nightgown. A day full of nursery rhyme enchants, delights, and enlightens young readers. Gorgeous illustrations paired with quintessential nursery rhymes introduce familiar friends like Little Bo Peep, Georgie Porgie and the Grand Old Duke of York, as well as meet new neighbors, including Little Polly Flinders, Honest John Boldero and Little Tommy Tucker. An attractive and easily giftable collection of tried and true favorites.

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Over the course of one day, readers are introduced to some familiar and not-so-familiar nursery rhyme characters. The day starts with Gregory Griggs and his 27 wigs (though he is pictured in only one) and ends with a princess going Rock-a-Bye, Baby in a green cradle. The titles of the 26 rhymes can only be found, miserly enough, in the table of contents. The rhymes themselves range from four-line snippets to a five-stanza version of Little Bo-Peep. But though the concept is clever, the placement of the poems can be a puzzle, as the progression from sunrise to sunset is not always clear. Instead of starting off this slim collection with the Old Man in Leather rising on a misty, moisty morning, Marks uses the aforementioned rhyme about wigs. As the day winds down, the author inexplicably sandwiches Georgie Porgie between Wee Willie Winkie and Honest John Boldero and his candles. The dreamy pencil, ink, and watercolor drawings nostalgically portray costumes and people (mostly, though not universally, white) from approximately the 18th century to the early 20th. Marks' sense of whimsy is clear in the maniacal stare of a cat giving tiny Jerry Hall a ride past a rat with dinner on its mind, and readers can empathize with Little Tommy Tucker standing on a wooden crate with the absolute rigidity of stage fright. Ultimately, the uneven presentation makes this Mother Goose collection a supplemental purchase.- Kirkus Reviews

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Alan Marks is the illustrator of many books for children, including High-Tide for Horseshoe Crabs, Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle, Little Lost Bat, and A Mother's Journey; and Storm (Heinemann). Alan lives in Kent, England.

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