The Helen Oxenbury Nursery Story Book - Hardcover

Oxenbury, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394875192 ISBN 13: 9780394875194

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1985

Synopsis

Includes ten familiar folk tales, such as "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The Elves and the Shoemaker," and "Little Red Riding Hood"

About this title

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-K An inviting collection of ten familiar nursery tales that will find a place in most libraries. All of the stories are available individually, but Rojankovsky's The Tall Book of Nursery Tales (Harper, 1944) and Rockwell's Three Bears and Fifteen Other Stories (Crowell, 1975) are the only two anthologies that contain many of them. These retellings have more explanations than other versions of the same tales, but since these stories were not originally intended for the nursery school audience, this consoling tone seems appropriate. (The three bears were kind and would not have hurt Goldilocks; the people who pulled up "The Turnip" "weren't hurt a bit" when they fell.) However, the omission of the "trip-traps" from "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" is almost heretical! The full-page, full-color illustrations of dot-eyed human and animal characters convey a cheerful witlessness. Oxenbury's visual style is extraordinarily comfortable and will be enthusiastically welcomed by young listeners. Dana Whitney Pinizzotto, The Parish Day School of the Church of the Transfiguration, Dallas
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Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394875192
• ISBN 13: 9780394875194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 72