Iona Opie (1923-2017) dedicated her life to collecting
and preserving children’s rhymes as an art form and believed that
“nursery rhymes are good for you.” In partnership with her late
husband, Peter Opie, she edited many acclaimed books of children’s
folklore, including The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery
Rhymes.
Rosemary Wells is the author and/or illustrator of more
than 120 books for young readers. She has won many awards,
including more than twenty American Library Association Notable
Book citations, a New York Times Book Review Best
Illustrated Book of the Year Award, and a Boston Globe–Horn
Book Award. She lives in a small town in New England.
A lovely 20th-anniversary edition of the acclaimed 1996
collaboration between illustrator Rosemary Wells and editor Iona
Opie. Here some 60 classic nursery rhymes are set amid
ink-and-watercolor pictures as quirky as they are cozy.
—The Wall Street Journal
It's been 20 years since world-renowned folklorist Iona Opie and
beloved illustrator Rosemary Wells (who Opie firmly believes is
Mother Goose's second cousin) published the ultimate—and
award-winning—nursery rhyme collection My Very First Mother Goose.
With this anniversary edition (sporting a fetching new pale-yellow
cover), another generation of young children will clap their hands,
wiggle their toes and sing-song along to 60 "eccentric, funny,
goluptious, haphazard" rhymes...Every household needs this
book.
—Shelf Awareness for Readers
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