The Real Mother Goose

by BONNIE V on 2009-10-27
This is not the Mother Goose that I remember. Most of these are dry and/or unusual. Maybe I'll just sort through and find my favorites to read to him. The illustrations aren't great, either. I know there has to be a more chaming book out there.

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)

by ELISSA C on 2008-06-06
We find ourselves commenting at the end of many of the poems "that's not very nice". We are going to skip this book and find another book of poems to read to our youngest child.

by LINDA S on 2008-04-10
Mixed review here. Basically, my dd enjoys many of the poems, and I have concern about the meanings of many poems. The POSITIVE: Contains excellent poems/sayings, Many poems have been passed down through the generations, Colorful pictures that spur imagination, Learning of older customs & Old English words/expressions. NEGATIVE: Possible origins & the meaning of a lot of poems/sayings very negative in nature. The flip side of the negative is that dd & I discuss what & why something is not right & then the reversal of what would make it good.