![]() ![]() Children’s literary scholar Leonard Marcus ponders the amazing shelf life of nursery rhymes himself and comes up with some answers. Culturally relevant but often of unknown origins. What's up with that? (I feel like a stand up comedian when I put it that way). We've now moved on to revisiting the companion volume, Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, which isn't quite as delightful, but still well worth perusing. ![]() For my part, I've become somewhat more well read in graphic novels in the intervening years, so it was fun to recognize more of the contributors' names and drawing styles this time around than I had in the past. And as we still read together every night, it was a really refreshing change of pace from our usual picture book fare. What was I waiting for? It made a great birthday present for my son with autism who just turned 16. Once again edited to add: Many years after writing the above, I've at last acquired a copy for my family. Keen scrutiny of Craig Thompson's "The Owl and the Pussycat" reveals that the runcible spoon is in fact a spork that explains so much. My hands down favorite rendition is Cyril Pedrosa's "This little Piggy." A few of the entries are a shade ho-hum, but that just makes one appreciate the quirky ones more. ![]() A year after posting my succinct review, I've picked up this nursery rhyme cartoon anthology again at the library and still think it's wonderful, as do my children - we definitely need our own copy. ![]()
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