Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Common Sense Note
It's hard to beat Beatrix Potter and Mother Goose for immersing young children in high level language with a rhyming, metered format which entrances them. Because the language is so rich, it's also good for beginning readers.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Jennifer Gennari
"Appley Dapply has little sharp eyes / And Appley Dapply is so fond of pies!" Potter's nursery rhymes for the very young show off her talent with words..
Each stanza is illustrated with a watercolor in a formal square or a soft circle. The pictures, unfortunately, are clumped two and three per page in this large collection.
Another book about hedgehogs is Can You Do This, Old Badger?
From the Book:
Appley Dapply, a little brown mouse,
Goes to the cupboard in somebody's house.
In somebody's cupboard
There's everything nice.
Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits,
--All charming for mice!
Plot Summary:
Potter's original nursery rhymes about mice, rabbits, pigs, and hedgehogs are illustrated in fine detail..
The seven rhymes range in subject from a mouse's hairstyle to Potter's take on a certain shoe-dwelling elderly lady.
Related Books:
Beatrix Potter Also Wrote
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
Books With Similar Themes
Can You Do This Old Badger?
Here Comes Mother Goose!
My Very First Mother Goose
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
Mother Goose
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