Schoolyard Rhymes: Kids' Own Rhymes for Rope-Skipping, Hand Clapping, Ball Bouncing, and Just Plain Fun
Kindergarten-Grade 5–Sierra has selected some of the funniest and most memorable schoolyard rhymes available in this appealing collection, including such old favorites as Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, Lady with the Alligator Purse, and Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. Kids will also howl over other offerings that may be new to this generation: Ladies and jellybeans, hoboes and tramps,/Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow-legged ants and Tarzan, Tarzan, through the air,/Tarzan lost his underwear. The rhythms and nonsense rhymes are irresistible, compelling memorization and participation in the fun. Tried-and- true wordplays will tickle young readers, such as the one that begins Splickety-splat,/I saw a dead rat,/and I 1 it./Say you 2 it and eventually leads to the delightfully disgusting conclusion, I 8 it. Sweet's animated watercolor-and-collage illustrations fill the pages with expressive faces, thin lines of verse shaped into jump ropes and borders, and hilarious interpretive scenes from the rhymes. This is a definite winner, as it will be enormously popular with children.–Lee Bock, Glenbrook Elementary School, Pulaski, WICopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.