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Mother Goose Remembers HC w CD
Item Description
Cackle, cackle Mother Goose, Have you any feathers loose? Truly have I, pretty fellow, Half enough to fill a pillow. Here are quills, take one or two And down to make a bed for you. For over three centuries, Mother Goose has delighted children with nonsense rhymes, cautionary tales, and singsong verses. With the many renderings of Mother Goose that have appeared over the years, it's hard to imagine a strikingly original version. Yet with Mother Goose Remembers, Clare Beaton strides into entirely new territory. Selecting many of her own childhood favorites, Beaton illustrates them with her hand-sewn designs, using antique fabrics, felt, beads, braids, lace, buttons, and bric-a-brac. The result is a truly charming treasury of poignantly old-fashioned portrayals of "The Queen of Hearts," "To Market, to Market," "Polly Put the Kettle On," "Little Jack Horner," and heaps more. The downy illustrations seem to leap out at the reader, who will want to touch the paper just to be sure it's not actually made of fabric and gewgaws. The title of each rhyme is sewn onto the soft-colored background in big, loose stitches, evoking bygone days when a child's education included embroidery and recitations. Onto each scene floats a single stitched feather for young readers to discover, providing a fun challenge as they "fill" a goose-down pillow for bedtime. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter
Product Details
- Author: Clare Beaton
- Publication Date: 2006-09-01
- Publisher: Barefoot Books
- Product Group: Book
- Manufacturer: Barefoot Books
- Binding: Hardcover, 64 pages
- Features:
- ISBN13: 9781846860034
- Condition: New
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- Item Dimensions:
- Dimensions: 1054L x 926W x 62H
- Weight: 136
- Package Dimensions:
- Dimensions: 1030L x 910W x 60H
- Weight: 95
- List Price: $19.99
- ISBN: 1846860032
- ASIN: 1846860032
Customer Reviews
Average Amazon User Rating:
Nursery Treasure
2008-10-17
Reviewer: Bonnie Neely
Mother Goose Remembers by Clare Beaton This beautiful book of the author's (and yours) favorite nursery rhymes is illustrated with her wonderful felt and bric-a-brac embroidery embellished pictures which you and your children will adore looking at as you try to find the single floating feather on each page (to make your feather pillow). You can read the familiar rhymes with your child or enjoy singing them with the sing-along CD which comes with the book. An excellent gift for any young child.
4 years later, still use the CD
2008-07-07
Reviewer: Blueflower
Both my kids love this CD and its NOT annoying to listen to like some other kid CDs. Its actually a pleasant CD to listen to for adults. Have used it for 4 years and still using it.
Beautiful book
2008-02-26
Reviewer: M. Heiss
This book has it all.
Great visuals -- the illustrations are jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Great auditory -- the nursery rhymes are just as you remember -- no revision, and they just pour off your tongue.
Great tactile -- this book feels luxurious, with its hard cover and its thick pages.
We haven't listened to the CD yet -- the kids just want me to read it to them again and again. I would choose this book for myself -- the illustrations are simply unbelievable.
Clare Beaton is amazing.
Great book for Pre-Schoolers.
2007-02-12
Reviewer: E. Brandwein
I am a Pre-K teacher and it never ceases to amaze me that most 4-year olds do not know any nursery rhymes. This book has an excellent collection of nursery rhymes plus the most amazing illustrations. My own 4-year old asks for this book almost every night and she can even recite some of them.
My favorite book
2002-09-15
Reviewer:
This is such a beautiful book, it sits on MY bookshelf. I do LOVE to read this with our children, 6, 3, 1, years old. Mother Goose offers something to all age groups. All of the familiar poems and stories are here, as well as a few not-so-familiar entries. The best part of the book, however, is the illustrations. The book is exquisitely illustrated with the look of felt patchwork pictures. We all Really Do Love this Book!
