Rhyme Time is an unconventional illustrated book for children and all those with a healthy
relationship to their inner child. Imaginatively combining retro images with new rhymes the
book brings visual nostalgia and the traditions of children's verse up to date. The
illustrations are 1960s line drawings Packham carefully colored-in as a child in 1988 now
more than 30 years later he has rearranged these vibrant images into playful stories and
captured them in rhyme. The unexpected results are both original tales like that of Humphrey
who chased a pesky elf from his garden with a cricket bat and tongue-in-cheek
reinterpretations of beloved fairy tales and nursery rhymes-if Snow White isn't actually the
fairest in the land then who is? And why did Jack and Jill really climb that steep and nasty
hill?
