Tomie's Little Mother Goose

I've got a review I want to share.  If you don't like it, don't despair. You can always come back another day -- and if you don't I never liked you anyway!!!

THREE PROS

*Can't think of a book that does a better job of cramming in all the classics (and a few super obscure ones as well) into one spot

*Some of the quatrains are even better when accompanied with a visual (like fitting a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker into a wooden tub)

*"Tickly, tickly on your knee, if you laugh you don't love me" might be my new fave game (I'm gonna have to wait about a year before it makes sense to my little guy)

THREE CONS 

*There are a few strange substitutions to the classics (hush-a-bye baby in the tree top?) that I just assumed were the original ways of reciting them; that is until I saw Yanke Doodle going to town (instead of the correctly spelled Yankee Doodle)

*I never thought I'd ever say this, but c'mon, how many cats can you put in here that have nothing to do with the story

*I would have left out any nursery rhyme involving diddling your son John with his trousers on

ONE DAD'S OPINION

It's tough to argue with a book that packs in this much content.  It's not perfect, but it's definitely worthwhile.  I would have liked to have seen it divided into two sections that separated the known ones from the randoms, but that's a lot of wishful thinking on my part.  I don't know -- I guess my main issue with it is that it needs some pauses between stories since it all kind of runs together. [Which makes my usage of the term cram that much more appropriate.]                         

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