The classic nursery rhymes we know and love - upside-down backward in gibberish and fresh
out of bounds - as only Jon Scieszka could stage them.Mother knows best but sometimes a little
nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism's rejection of reason and rational thinking and in
cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright's The Real Mother Goose this anthology of absurdity
unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or not quite
together) in every clever way possible. One by one cherished nursery rhymes - from Humpty
Dumpty to Hickory Dickory Dock Jack Be Nimble to Mother Hubbard - fall prey to sly subversion
as master of fracture Jon Scieszka and acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman refashion them into
comic strips errant book reports anagrams and manic mash-ups. Playfully reconstructed the
thirty-six old-new rhymes invite further nonsense bringing kids in on the joke and inviting
them to revel in reimagining. Featuring robust back matter this irreverent take on the rhymes
of childhood is a great gift for child readers a rich classroom resource and a love song to a
living language.
