Calling Kid Comedians
Get ready to laugh!
This brightly illustrated book is filled with more than 50 nursery rhymes! The fun, colorful illustrations present the traditional stories that you have heard before come alive in a new, often silly way.
Cousins, Lucy (1995). The little dog laughed. Illus. by Lucy Cousins. London, England: Puffin Books. p. 64.
In this book, the author rewrites the traditional nursery rhyme to make the reader laugh with new titles such as, "Blah Blah Black Sheep," "There Was an Old Lady Who Lived In a Sneaker," and "It's Raining, It's Boring." You can choose to read some or all of the nursery rhymes in this crazy, colorful book filled on every page with detail-packed illustrations, but make sure to read the "Grand Finale" that brings all of the characters together in one silly place!
Seibold, J. Otto. (2010). Other goose: Re-nurseried!! and re-rhymed!! childrens classics. Illus. by Amelia Walsh. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. p. 80.
This fun and funny book follows a young child who is working around the farm with all of the different, silly farm animals. The illustrations in this book make the rhyming lines even more fun with the cat playing the fiddle throughout the book and the addition of more crazy, colorful farm animals with the turn of every page.
Sweet, Melissa. (2002). Fiddle-I-Fee. Illus. by Melissa Sweet. New York, NY: Little, Brown. p. 22.
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Denslow, William Wallace. (1901). Denslow's Mother Goose : being the old familiar rhymes and jingles of Mother Goose. Illus. by Willam Wallace Denslow. New York : McClure, Phillips. p. 96. Retrieved from http://read.gov/books/mother-goose.html