My Very First Mother Goose by Rosemary Wells

Title: My Very First Mother Goose
Editor: Iona Opie
Illustrator: Rosemary Wells
Reading Level: Baby - Preschool
Hardcover: 108 pages
Publisher: Candlewick

Winner of numerous prestigious awards including ALA Notable Children's Book Award and Parents Choice Award.

Having Origins dating back as far as the 17th century, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes have been recited, memorized and passed down for generations and generations. The Well-loved Rhymes are silly, wise, funny, witty, rhyming and just purely magical! They have endured through the centuries for a good reason. We all grew up reciting Mother Goose Rhymes at one time or the other and it is imperative that we expose our child to the world of Mother Goose through songs and books. Apart from the fact that it promotes early literacy skills, it also helps the children bond with their parents. Come on, who wouldn't like to go for a ride on Mommy's lap for "To market, To market" or dance with Daddy for "Dance to your Daddy" or play "Pat-a-Cake" or cuddle up for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"?

We own a few different versions of mother goose books (including this) and we borrow several from the local library, but I think this book is by far the best out there. Its a chunky collection of over 60 Rhymes, divided into four chapters, with a Rhyme or two on each page. It has numerous illustrations of bunnies, cats and pigs and mice to entice the little ones and uses extra-large fonts for texts. My daughter loves Mother Goose Rhymes and we have many favorites including "Pat-a-Cake", "Humpty Dumpty", "Cackle Cackle Mother Goose", "Trot Trot to Boston", "Cobbler, Cobbler" and so on. Its impossible to list them all. Whether its looking at all different shoes for the "Cobbler" song, or trying to find her own thumb for the "Little Jack Horner" or playing patty cake with playdoh for "Pat-a-Cake" or bouncing on my lap for "Trot Trot to Boston" rhyme she has heck a lot of fun with this book. A few popular ones like "London Bridge Is Falling", "Little Miss Muffet", "This Little Piggy" are missing in this book. But, adding some rarely heard ones like "Mrs Mason bought a basin", "Whose Little Pigs are these these these?", "Wibbleton to Wobbleton" makes up for it nonetheless. Even though we have read several Mother Goose books, we come back to this one particular book all the time!! Highly Recommended!

My Rating: 5/5