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The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense



by
Jon Scieszka
illustrated by
Julia Rothman

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Candlewick
Imprint
Candlewick
ISBN
9780763694340
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The classic nursery rhymes we know and love—upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds—as only Jon Scieszka could stage them.

Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism’s rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright’s The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or not quite together) in every clever way possible. One by one, cherished nursery rhymes—from “Humpty Dumpty” to “Hickory Dickory Dock,” “Jack Be Nimble” to “Mother Hubbard”—fall prey to sly subversion as master of fracture Jon Scieszka and acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman refashion them into comics strips, errant book reports, anagrams, and manic mash-ups. Playfully reconstructed, the thirty-six old-new rhymes invite further baloney, bringing kids in on the joke and inviting them to revel in reimagining. Featuring robust back matter, this irreverent take on the rhymes of childhood is a great gift for child readers and a rich classroom resource across grade levels, and a is a love song to a living language.

Notes on the featured forms and variations. “Mother Goose History.” Information about Blanche Fisher Wright and  bibliography. Information about Dada. Full-color mixed-media illustrations. 

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Details

Format

Print

Page Count

80

Trim Size

9 1/2" x 7 1/2"

Dewey

E

AR

0: points 0

Genre

Fic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Dec 2022

Book Genres

Humor, Nursery Rhymes, Picture Books for Older Readers

Topics

Fairy tale and folklore adaptations. Nursery rhymes. Dadaism. Wordplay. Humorous stories. 

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Praise & Reviews

School Library Journal

School Library Journal

Library Journal

K-Gr 3—The off-kilter table of contents clues readers in to a less-than-conventional approach as Scieszka "play[s] around" with familiar characters and rhymes such as Humpty Dumpty, Jack Be Nimble, Old Mother Hubbard, Hey Diddle Diddle, Hickory Dickory Dock, and Twinkle Twinkle. Each of them is followed by several variations, including "censored" versions, a (failed) multiple choice test, a comic strip, haiku, Spoonerism, a recipe, a news report, and more. At the end, readers are invited to participate: "One, two, buckle my shoe./ Now YOU make these old rhymes new." Back matter includes note on Egyptian hieroglyphs, various codes, anagrams, and puzzles, Mother Goose history, and copyright; Rothman created the art for the book using collage and Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. As the Little Dog says in the news report, "It was crazy, I just had to laugh." VERDICT Come for Scieszka; stay if you have readers with a particular sense of humor, or need silly story times and curriculum tie-ins.—Jenny Arch

Praise & Reviews

School Library Journal

School Library Journal

Library Journal

K-Gr 3—The off-kilter table of contents clues readers in to a less-than-conventional approach as Scieszka "play[s] around" with familiar characters and rhymes such as Humpty Dumpty, Jack Be Nimble, Old Mother Hubbard, Hey Diddle Diddle, Hickory Dickory Dock, and Twinkle Twinkle. Each of them is followed by several variations, including "censored" versions, a (failed) multiple choice test, a comic strip, haiku, Spoonerism, a recipe, a news report, and more. At the end, readers are invited to participate: "One, two, buckle my shoe./ Now YOU make these old rhymes new." Back matter includes note on Egyptian hieroglyphs, various codes, anagrams, and puzzles, Mother Goose history, and copyright; Rothman created the art for the book using collage and Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. As the Little Dog says in the news report, "It was crazy, I just had to laugh." VERDICT Come for Scieszka; stay if you have readers with a particular sense of humor, or need silly story times and curriculum tie-ins.—Jenny Arch

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