The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Module 4

Crews, Nina. 2004. The neighborhood mother goose. New York: Greenwillow Books.

Crews has put together a collection of some of the most well known traditional nursery rhymes. Children have enjoyed the rhythm, rhyme and humor of these verses for hundreds of years, but she puts them in a new light with delightful, full color photographs. Children in modern day, urban and multicultural settings illustrate the age old verses. One beautiful photograph of a father counting his daughter's toes, illustrates "This little pig went to market" and shows the real joy of parent-child interaction. A small boy looking sadly out of a window shows the emotion of "Rain, rain go away, come again another day". Other photos are digitally manipulated to create humorous pictures such as the one illustrating "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe." This collection puts a different spin on favorite nursery rhymes and is recommended for preschoolers and early elementary children.