Mary Middling, and Other Silly Folk Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems - Hardcover

Fyleman, Rose; Philip, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618381414 ISBN 13: 9780618381418

Verlag: Clarion Books, 2004

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Book by Fyleman Rose

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Críticas:

Fyleman, best known in the US for her poem "A Fairy Went A-Marketing," was a well-known children's writer and editor in England in the first decades of the 20th century. This volume of her original nursery rhymes includes 20 of her rhyming poems taken from a larger collection published in 1931. Included is her widely anthologized poem about mice, as well as short, humorous rhymes about farm animals and colorful characters such as Mary Middling, Lanky Lawrence, and a purple-clad witch who drinks "vinegar, blacking, and good red ink" (labeled as poison in the illustration) while she flies. Several of the rhymes have some British vocabulary (marmalade, treacle, washing peg) or rhyming pairs requiring British pronunciation that will be puzzling to children without adult interpretation. The heavily outlined illustrations have a flat, naive style suited to old-fashioned nursery rhymes, with cobblestone streets, aproned farm girls, and tidy villages. All in all, the rhymes aren't particularly funny or memorable-a middling sort of collection in a crowded genre. (Picture book. 2-5) (Kirkus Reviews)

Reseña del editor:

Short, catchy verses and whimsical illustrations present comical poems about such characters as a man who eats upside down, a king and queen who do nothing but argue, and a naughty girl who throws things at her teacher.

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• Verlag: Clarion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618381414
• ISBN 13: 9780618381418
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Zeichner: Bandlow Katja