This would be a great book to use to teach dialogue and setting. Plus it's a fun way to teach Nursery Rhmyes. Too many students today are unfamiliar with traditional nursery rhymes.

What a fantastic collection of the best cartoonists today and their personal takes on classic nursery rhymes - so fascinating with who went traditional and who went with a completely different interpretation.

It’s no secret we are living in the age of superstar team-ups. With Watch the Throne on the top of the Billboard charts, The Miami Heat making waves in the NBA, and The Avengers one of the most highly anticipated films of 2012, it’s hard to say otherwise. The beautiful Nursery Rhyme Comics is a superstar team-up of a different kind. No less than 50 of our best cartoonists and illustrators have contributed their interpretations of classic (and a number of lesser-known) nursery rhymes. While this

It is so fascinating how different illustrators decide to depict these nursery rhymes. While the rhymes stick to the traditional words we all know, many of the illustrations are wildly interpretive.

I think it's safe to say that most American children have experienced their fair share of nursery rhymes. I have memories of reciting them in preschool, and reading from a large hardcover book that collected and illustrated many of the most popular rhymes. Nursery Rhyme Comics takes the idea of the classic collection of nursery rhymes and updates it for our current graphic-novel hungry generation of youngsters. Each nursery rhyme is presented in comic strip form and runs from one to three pages

Nursery rhymes. What's up with that? (I feel like a stand up comedian when I put it that way). They're ubiquitous but nonsensical. Culturally relevant but often of unknown origins. Children’s literary scholar Leonard Marcus ponders the amazing shelf life of nursery rhymes himself and comes up with some answers. Why is it that they last as long as they do in the public consciousness? Marcus speculates that “the old-chestnut rhymes that beguile in part by sounding so emphatically clear about thems...

This is such a kool book. Classic Nursery Rhymes and Comics all in one. I love it and so does my son, definitely one for his/my collection :)

I got a copy of this book through the Amazon Vine program. It was a very fun read and something that I think kids of all ages and adults will both enjoy. There are a number (fifty to be exact) of nursery rhymes illustrated and retold in various ways. Some of them are just beautiful renditions of the nursery rhymes, some of them are ironic retellings, and some of them are fantastic re-imaginings.For example Jack Be Nimble has a little boy making asides about how stupid you would have to be to jum...

I don't love all the cartoons but my kids are really into this book. It is a fun take on old nursery rhymes--some of which are quite creepy.

I simply adore "Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists". I love the artwork and the rhymes reminiscent of childhood. My favorites are Eleanor Davis's "The Queen of Hearts" (I love the color scheme) and Laura Park's "Croak, Said the Toad" (I think the artwork just looks really cool). I also enjoyed Nick Bruel's "Three Little Kittens" just because I had read it so many times as a child. I would recommend this collection to cartoon/comic and nursery rhyme enthusiast...

Title: Nursery Rhyme ComicsAuthor: Chris DuffyIllustrator: Various illustrations for each nursery rhymeGenre: Book of Nursery RhymesTheme(s): Rhyming, Comics, AnimalsOpening line/sentence:Worlds collide: two art forms that kids love come together in this inspired collection of classic nursery rhymes interpreted by comics.Brief Book Summary: This book is a compilation of 50 nursery. Young children can read as many or as little as they want. Kids can see their favorite nursery rhymes in comic form...

"Great fun."A year after posting my succinct review, I've picked up this nursery rhyme cartoon anthology again at the library and still think it's wonderful, as do my children -- we definitely need our own copy. My hands down favorite rendition is Cyril Pedrosa's "This little Piggy." A few of the entries are a shade ho-hum, but that just makes one appreciate the quirky ones more. Keen scrutiny of Craig Thompson's "The Owl and the Pussycat" reveals that the runcible spoon is in fact a spork; that...

I’m not a big reader of graphic novels although I’ve been trying to remedy that. And, one of the standout writers of that genre has been Gene Luen Yang of “American Born Chinese” and “The Eternal Smile”. It was while checking on what other things he’s written that I ran across “Nursery Rhyme Comics”.This is an anthology where cartoonists had free reign to re-imagine nursery rhymes. I was surprised by how many illustrators I recognized- like Patrick McDonnell, Nick Bruel, Jules Feiffer, Craig Tho...

There are 50 Nursery Rhymes in this collection by 50 different artists. It's a fun book that tells the classic rhymes, some of them in an updated setting. Many of these I have forgotten and I certainly didn't remember. It's a nice book that kids will enjoy seeing the pictures that go with the rhymes.They have a companion called Fairy Tale Comics with the same format. First second pushes boundaries. They are a great company and this is for younger kids. They have older comics as well.

Everyone knows what a nursery rhyme is; many of us can still remember a number of them, or at least what they were about; and still a few more of us can recall certain nursery rhymes word for word; but ask any of us what they mean or how they got made up, and you’ll be greeted with a look of dumbfoundedness. What exactly is the deal with an egg falling off the wall, or two kids falling down a hill, or even a cow jumping over a moon?In Nursery Rhyme Comics, the artists explore these familiar nurs...

Such a cute book. I love such clever comics which helps relive my childhood! I esp love the illustration on 'There was an Old Lady who lived in a Shoe'. Such a cool spin. Every rhyme is so beautifully illustrated. I havent shared it with my toddler yet. Maybe when the time is right, she will love it too.

Title: Nursery Rhyme ComicsAuthor: Chris DuffyIllustrator: Different illustrators for each nursery rhymeGenre: Book of nursery rhymesThemes: Rhyming, comics, animalsOpening line/sentence: Worlds collide: two art forms that kids love come together in this inspired collection of classic nursery rhymes interpreted by comics.Brief Book Summary: This book has 50 nursery rhymes included in it. However, these nursery rhymes are illustrated differently than normal. All of the nursery rhymes included in

I've updated my review to include my initial thoughts and my "I'm done with the book now" thoughts... :)I liked what I read on my first night of reading this book, but I somehow expected more. The comics are from a variety of styles, some more enjoyable than others. Some of the comics are very basic: just drawn to match the rhymes; while others are more fleshed out: these cartoonists really put their imaginations to use. I'm enjoying these the most, as with the Queen of Hearts by Eleanor Davis:

5* art5* conceptNursery rhymes are strange things. Part poetry, part history (what is peas porridge? or a posie?), part vocabulary lesson, part introduction to all the literary genres, and all weirdness. Squirt has never been very interested - until this book, and he just couldn't get enough of it. Each rhyme is illustrated by a different artist, and their take on it is individual and modern and sometimes very funny. Squirt's favorite by far is the "Jack Jumped Over a Candlestick" one. Only one

Read the review and others like it on my blog:Tim's Book ReviewsPremise: What happens when you take fifty of today’s cartoonists and you have them interpret and illustrate fifty classic nursery rhymes? You get a collection like this of re-imagined stories for people of all ages.You’ll see familiar stories such as Hey, Diddle Diddle, Little Boy Blue, and Jack and Jill, along with not so familiar (at least to me) such as The Donkey and For Want of a Nail, but each one puts a fresh spin on a classi...