You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together [精装]

Join the fun as 17 familiar nursery rhyme characters take starring roles in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Designed with budding readers in mind, each of the tales is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together. Whether it's Humpty Dumpty negotiating with a doctor to fix his cracked shell, Little Miss Muffet inviting the spider to share her curds and whey, or Old King Cole enjoying a feline fiddle recital, these tales with a twist will delight and amuse young readers.

From Booklist
Growing up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1964, Blessing, 12, hears his Shona pastor father preach about peace. Evan, his white best friend, also has a minister father (he works for the American Mission) who echoes the messages of Gandhi and Dr. King. But Blessing feels pressured to join the militants and fight for freedom from colonial rule, while Evan hears the racist diatribes in his segregated school (“we built this civilized country”) and trains as a cadet to fight the “Communist” agitators, even though he recognizes the injustices of the white government. Told in the alternating third-person viewpoints of the two young people, the political divisions among the huge cast are not easy to follow. It is the friendship drama that will hold readers, along with the confusion, conflict, and betrayal within family, church, and community. Is Evan a Judas? Is the Mission a Communist hotbed? The connections with the civil-rights struggle in the U.S. will also touch readers. Grades 5-8. --Hazel Rochman

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