The Real Mother Goose

by Aaron W on 2011-06-07
Our children LOVE this book so much I am back for another copy several years later. They love everything about this book: huge hardback, artwork, and especially the fun rhymes! If you didn't hear these rhymes as a child, that might be why you wouldn't enjoy this book. Children always stop to listen to these rhymes. Read with enthusiasm to see how they enjoy it, and as they do, you might have fun too.

by KIMBERLY Q on 2010-10-05
I have to say I'm not sorry they're getting rid of this book- I just wish they did it before I ordered my core! I like that these are classic poems but the illustrations are wretched ("classic reprints" or not,) and we are so far removed from the culture that inspired the poems that I have no clue what they mean. I short biograph with each entry would have been nice. All in all I think I'll have to pull out something else. I don't think the goal is for your 5 yr old to say " Aww Mom, I hate Mother Goose!!"

by JOY E on 2010-02-02
Really? Is it really necessary for my children to endure these in order to receive a good education? A few make sense and a few teach a lesson, but most are just silly or nonsense. I remember disliking them even when I was a kid. We've stopped reading it and just reread "The Llama Who Had No Pajama" because we love it so much.

by ALICIA H on 2009-10-10
I like that the book contains most of the poems I remember my mom reading to me as a child. I love that I can share them with my children also. Of course there are poems we don't care for, but isn't that how most poetry books are? My kids love most of the poems and I think this was a good purchase for our family.

by AMANDA M on 2009-10-09
Sorry, this one just has not done it for us. We read them in chunks, not one/ day as listed in the IG, and still my 5yr old just kind of endures them because he likes books so much. This would not be a book to try to instill a love of poetry in the 5 yr old. The poems are odd at best and sometimes I can't work at the rhyme and meter of the stanzas. I've yet to understand any of the poems fully. Kind of sorry to have spent $8.00 on it.

by REBEKAH M on 2009-09-11
THere are much better Mother Goose books out there. This book is dry and the illustrations aren't great. It would be nice to have a reference to help explain some of the rhymes. I feel obligated to read them, but maybe I should just chuck this book. It is teaching my kids to not like Mother Goose.

by LISA W on 2008-12-16
I do not like this book! I tried to like it but just could not. I thought the poems were strange at the very least and many of them did not make any sense and more importantly a lot of them just send the wrong message to our children - e.g. The Bird Scarer. I did not read this one to my children, but if I had I would then have to get into a discussion about guns and then explain why it is wrong to shoot birds or anything for that matter. I would not recommend this book.

by KRISTEN O on 2008-09-23
We have been skipping these readings. Doesn't make sense unless you know and explain the back ground, which can sometimes be inappropriate.

by CHRISTIE B on 2008-09-19
not big poetry fans here i guess, we have this one and the one from core b. some are favs of my daughter but for me the reader i do not like this book. we do read through them though and mark our favs, we did this last yr in the other mother goose book also. we go back and reread those only christie

by JENNY R on 2008-06-08
The only reason I gave it one star (instead of zero) was because there was the occasional poem that I recognised from my childhood, and then I finally had all the words to it. Otherwise, the kids did not really like or understand a lot of the poems. I liked the other K poetry book far more.(The llama who had no pyjama)