Baby Goose - Hardcover

McMullan, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786804300 ISBN 13: 9780786804306

Publisher: Hyperion, 2004

Synopsis

Hark, hark the dogs do bark, The babies are heading for home, Some with hats, and some with cats, And one with a brush and a comb. From beloved author Kate McMullan and illustrator Pascal Lemaître comes the perfect collection of nursery rhymes for the bouncing baby in any family. Kate has selected rhymes with the most baby appeal, and then replaced the traditional hero or heroine with a baby. The result is utterly irresistible. Divided into sections and illustrated with Pascal's boisterous little ones, this makes a wonderful first introduction to Mother Goose and is a perfect gift for the mom-to-be, newborn, or young child.

About this title

About the Author:

Kate McMullan is the author of more than over one hundred children's books, including the popular Dragon Slayers' Academy series and, stories for new readers about Fluffy, the classroom guinea pig. She and her husband, noted illustrator James McMullan, have created several best-selling picture books. Their homage to the lowly garbage trick, I Stink!, was selected as on eof the Ten Best Picture Books of the Year by The New York Times and was a Publishers weeekly "Best Book of the Year." Kate lives in Sag Harbor New York, with her husband, a cat, and two bulldogs.

From Publishers Weekly:

This Mother Goose collection answers the burning question: Just how cute would it be if 27 nursery rhymes became completely baby-centric? Loosely sorting the verse into four sections that correspond to the arc of a baby's day, McMullan (If I Were Your Bunny) takes certain liberties with the verse as she casts infants in the title roles. For "Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York," she installs "the Baby Duke of York" to command 10,000 men. The three men in a tub are similarly deposed, as "Baby Splasher, Baby Slosher/ Baby Soapy Face Washer" replace the butcher, baker and candlestick-maker. While there's no denying that the target audience is notorious for its egocentrism, the rhymes rarely gain anything in this translation: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" is no more meaningful when the second line reads, "Babies wonder what you are." And often, something feels lost—those references to enchanted places, odd people and long ago times that give nursery rhymes their magic. But the results never turns twee, thanks to the irresistible, round-headed charms of Lemaître's (who collaborated with McMullan for Supercat) diapered cast. Precociously dramatic, the babies scamper about the pages on chubby little legs, gleefully running with the hounds on "Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark," and riding a cockhorse to Banbury Cross. Ages 6 mos.-3 yrs.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0786804300
• ISBN 13: 9780786804306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Lemaitre Pascal