Hickory, Dickory, Dock: & Other Mother Goose Rhymes
James Marshall
Board book
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), April 4, 2003)
Beloved rhymes, drolly envisionedOld Mother HubbardWent to the cupboardTo fetch her poor dog a bone;But when she got thereThe cupboard was bareAnd so the poor dog had none.With deadpan hilarity, Marshall has rounded up some of the usual suspects of nursery-rhyme notoriety – Little Boy Blue, Old Mother Hubbard – and introduced a supporting cast of cats, mice, geese, pigs, dogs, and a couple of chickens to join in the fun.
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