Hey Diddle Diddle [木板书]

For hundreds of years, these two nursery rhymes have delighted children. Now Jeanette Winter's warm, evocative illustrations make these classics as delightful to look at as they are to share with little ones, who will be eager to hear--and to see--them again and again.

This chunky board book joins several others by Jeanette Winter (Rock-A-Bye-Baby, The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). The format is different in that each image fills two pages and the book must be held in a vertical position. The nursery rhyme is familiar and there is a lot of humor in her treatment of it. Bold illustrations with a cow in a skirt and a cat dressed to the nines playing a fiddle will elicit plenty of giggles while kids wonder about the dish running away with the spoon. 1999, Red Wagon Books/Harcourt. (Children's Literature )