Cat and the Fiddle and More, The($40.08Value)

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Presents new variations on the traditional rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" Grade 1-3-- As he did in The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock (Atheneum, 1990), Aylesworth takes a familiar nursery rhyme and expands it, adding 13 verses to "Hey Diddle Diddle." Since each verse has the same structure and similar phrasing ("The little rabbit girl, worm, lizard, colt, snake, etc. laughed/ To see such sport . . . "), it grows monotonous when read straight through; at the end, the author invites readers to make up their own variations, but many children may already be weary of the game by that point. Hull's full-spread illustrations have a grainy, lithographic look, and are packed with rubbery, stick-limbed figures hurling themselves madly about, their silly gestures and expressions tempting children to linger over each scene long enough to make sense of the chaos. Frenzied and overelaborate, but certainly a cut above Hickey's Mother Goose and More (Additions, 1990). - John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Used Book in Good Condition