Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for our Fragile Times Review

PUB DATE: August 2007

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Artist and designer Barbara Wyn Klunder takes on classic nursery rhymes and turns them on their heads, adding her own quirky twist to familiar favorites. Rock-a-bye baby laments the loss of her treetop to logging. Old Mother Hubbard must resort to a food bank. Jack and Jill discover that their well water is polluted, and Mary watches her garden flourish with weeding and fertilizing. Second-hand smoke, recycling, allergies, logging, pollution, oil spills, gasoline shortages and crooked politicians are all treated with Klunderesque whimsy and wit. Graphically striking, spiky, engaging black-and-white illustrations drive the point home — what are we doing to the planet?

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:

The book is filled with classic nursery rhymes such as Little Miss Muffet, Hey Diddle Diddle, Star Light Star bright and twenty others but they are all redone in a modern twist that cover enviromental issues, money and others.

This was a cute and funny book with great illustrations to go along with the rhyme.

I have to say my favorite was this one:

Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey, diddle diddle,
The cat played the fiddle and
The cow recorded the tune.
The laughing dog
Sent out his blog
And the dish sailed right past the moon.

Michael got a kick out of the rhymes he thought they were funny and laughed the whole time.

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