Texas Mother Goose
Kindergarten-Grade 2–Hush, little young'un, don't you squall;/Papa's gonna teach you the Texas drawl. Davis has lassoed the familiar rhymes and filled them with a plethora of places and folklore, from Galveston to Ft. Worth. Bluebonnets, the State Fair's Big Tex, oil wells, the Alamo, armadillos, San Antone, tacos, and tortillas all find a place with Mother Goose as she saddles her magic bird,/Wearing cowboy boots and silver spurs,/With twinkling stars to herd under the Texas sky. Engaging watercolor cartoon illustrations accompany the verses. Padre Pedro picked a passel of peppers on the Pedernales and Jack and Jill strike oil while drilling for water. This compilation might find a home in comparative studies classes.–Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TXCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.