Schoolyard Rhymes Selected by Judy Sierra, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Remember jumping rope or doing different pat-a-cake games with those silly rhymes like “Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack”?
I wish I could go hang out at the playground at school during recess to hear and see if the kids do any of these fun rhymes anymore. Perhaps when we move to a neighborhood (ahhhh – to dream) our kids will have many afternoons and evenings with other kids to play all those silly games that we used to. The rhymes Judy Sierra selected are very good; some familiar, some not; some long, some short. Melissa Sweet has done a beautiful job illustrating – lots of details and lots of fun. The illustrations make you want to jump into the pictures (like they do in Mary Poppins) to play with the chlildren she has drawn.
Melissa Sweet was the visiting author at my daughter’s school last year. We also met her at a book fair in Westport, CT. She is petite and full of energy – very Katie Couric looking. She was a joy to be around and the happiness she exudes definitely comes out in her illustrations. (http://www.melissasweet.net/index2.php)
