Rock A Bye Baby (Board Book) [木板书]

For hundreds of years, these two nursery rhymes have delighted children. Now Jeanette Winters 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 (Hey Diddle Diddle, 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 rhyme is familiar, but in this case, the story in the pictures is different from the text. Baby is taken into the treetop by a stork and placed in its nest which serves as the cradle. The bough breaks and the stork's chicks and the baby all fall down only to be safely caught by their respective mothers, albeit the human one has the nest on her head filled with the birds. The rhyme has always been a bit of a mystery to me, and this fanciful version adds a bit of humor through its illustrations. 1999, Red Wagon Books/Harcourt, Ages 6 mo. to 3. (Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot )