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The pleasure of rollicking rhyme: a passel of poems for children. (Cool Stuff).

Publication: Mothering
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1038 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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"April is the cruelest month," wrote T.S. Eliot. His followers tried to improve the situation by declaring April National Poetry Month. Here, then, in honor of April, are books that place the best words in the best possible order: some poetry, some books in rhyme. We begin with those for the very young and travel upward.

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, by Al Perkins, illustrated by Eric Gurney. Even the preverbal crowd is charmed by Gurney's hipster beatnik monkeys as they drum their way through this board book. The text sings and swings ("Hand, hand, fingers, thumb / Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum"), and the pictures will make you smile. Baby to Preschool. Random House, 1998.

The Lucy Cousins Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Lucy Cousins. There are dozens of illustrated Mother Goose collections; hardly a master has not tried his or her hand at it. My favorite is this collection by Lucy...

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