Definitely one of my favorite Caldecott winners! The illustrations are perfect and precious. It's all very cute-sy, but I love that. It's amazing how much a simple nursery rhyme can change since 1945, but it was great fun reading a previous version of many of them. My favorite would have to be:
"Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was black as tar.
And everywhere that Mary went
They thought it was a b-a-a-r."

Love it!

Nice collection of rhymes and finger games from early America. Some were very familiar, others quite different from what I learned. Really like this version of Mary had a little Lamb.

Read 6/4/15
All of the old rhymes and jingles that were from childhood paired with pictures

1946 Cladecott winner

I had a wonderful time reading the rhymes in this book. They certainly brought back childhood memories. When I was little, an aunt that lived far away made a cassette recording for me that had many of these rhymes on it. There are many silly well known rhymes and the pictures are certainly sweet.

Caldecott winner, 1946.
short poems, rhymes, jingles about historical american life.

I don't think I'm a very big fan of classic rhymes and American jingles. And I'm really not sure how much modern children will enjoyed them and/or understand them. The illustrations are night, but it does feel dated (copyright 1945). Interested to see what comments my students make. Some of the rhymes are kind of funny, some are downright sad, and some are just, well, kind of dumb.

The subtitle is: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. And that’s what it is, a collection of rhymes and jingles. Most were familiar to me from my childhood. There really is no story arc, though there is some effort to group them by categories, e.g. jokes/riddles. I’m not sure I would have sat still to have this read to me even as a young child.

The illustrations are wonderful, however. Very detailed and clearly support the rhymes and jingles. So 2 stars for that.

Nice collection of nursery rhymes, jumping rhymes, and finger games. The illustrations are beautiful, and do a great job in several cases of illustrating lyrics that do not make immediate sense to children. It is interesting, too, to see the kind of classic works that were awarded early on in the years of the Caldecott awards, and to see the different versions or evolutions of some of these rhymes.