PICTURE BOOK - The Read Aloud Treasury Compiled by Joanna Cole & Stephanie Calmenson

This book is an "oldy but goodie" and out-of-print (though there are many used copies to be had at a very reasonable price.  This book is a great book for a new baby!
Illustrated by Ann Schweninger

1988, Doubleday Book for Young Readers

256 pgs.

Goodreads rating:   4.17

My rating:  5

Endpapers Speckled pale sage

My comments: 32 nursery rhymes, 30 poems for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers, 13 stores that are actually the original books with the original illustrations (Little Bear Goes to the Moon, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Angus and the Cat, Cordouroy, and traditional stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff....and so much more.  A delightful book.

Goodreads:  The "Read-Aloud Treasury" makes finding good children's literature easy. It includes over thirty popular Mother Goose rhymes; poetry from renowned authors like Arnold Lobel and Jack Prelutsky; world-famous picture stories, many with their original illustrations. "A lively and surprisingly inclusive treasury... Schweninger's full-color illustrations complement and enhance the positive and inviting tone of this collection." -- "Publishers Weekly."

The Popcorn Hop

Put your popcorn
     in a pot.
Wait till it gets
     really hot.
When you start to
     feel the heat,
Listen for the
     popcorn beat:
Pop-pop-POP-pop,
     pop-pop-POP!
Come and do the
      popcorn hop!

          Stephanie Calmenson

Rain

The rain is raining all around,
     It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
     And on the ships at sea.

          Robert Louis Stevenson

Mud

I like mud.
       I like it on my clothes.
I like it on my fingers.'
         I like it on my toes.

Dirt's pretty ordinary
          And dust's a dud.
For a really good mess-up
          I like mud.

               John Smith

Barnyard Chat

"Honk, honk."
"Oink, oink."
"Meow, meow."
"Neigh."

Cluck, cluck."
"Woof, woof."
"Gobble, gobble."
"Bray!"

"Baa, baa."
"Hoot, hoot."
"Cckle, cackle."
"Moo.,"

"Quack, quack."
"Peep, peep."
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!"

                Stephanie Calmenson

A House is a House for Me

A hill is a house for an ant, an ant.
A hive is a house for a bee.
A hole is a house for a mole or a mouse
And a house is a house for me!

A garage is a house for a car or a truck,
A hangar's a house for a plane.
A dock or a slip is a house for a ship
And a terminal's a house for a train.

The cookie jar's home to the cookies.
The breadbox is home to the bread.
My coat is a house for my body.
My hat is a house for my head.

A glove is a house for a hand, a hand.
A stocking's a house for a knee.
A shoe or a boot is a house for a foot
And a house is a house for me!

                        Mary Ann Hoberman

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear;
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzz,
Was he?

               Traditional

PICTURE BOOK - After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat

Illustrated by the author

2017, Roaring Brook Press

$17.99 HC

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating: 4.52

My rating:  4

Endpapers: Morning view/evening view from the top of the wall

1^st line/s:"My name is Humpty Dumpty.
This was my favorite spot, high up on the wall.  I know, it's an odd place for an egg to be., but I loved being close to the birds."

My comments:  Limping around after his horrific fall, Humpty Dumpty has become anxious and especially afraid of heights.  But he overcomes his fears and the climax is even better than he ever imagined.  Great illustrations, and a wonderful moral-based story.

Goodreads:  Everyone knows that when Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. But what happened after?
          Follow Humpty Dumpty, an avid bird watcher whose favorite place to be is high up on the city wall―that is, until after his famous fall. Now terrified of heights, Humpty can longer do many of the things he loves most.
          Will he summon the courage to face his fear?

PICTURE BOOK - What REALLY Happened to Humpty?: From the Files of a Hard-Boiled Detective by Jeannie Franz Ransom

Illustrated by Stephen Axelsen

2009 Charlesbridge

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating: 3.90

My rating: 5

Endpapers

Title Page

Illustrations

1^st line/s:  "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall./ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall./Humpty Dumpty was pushed."

My comments:  This book cracks me up every time I read it (I love all the word play) and it works perfectly as an introduction to the mystery genre for my fourth graders.  This goes into my picture-books-with-a-little-more-intricateness/intricativity (how's that for taking a little touch of freedom with words? Try saying intricativity three times fast!)

Goodreads:  Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or, as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks, was he pushed? This case isn't all its cracked up to be. Suspects are plenty (as are the puns) in this scrambled story of nursery rhyme noir. Was it Little Miss Muffet? There's something not right about her tuffet. Or could it have been Chicken Little, who's always been a little cagey? Or was it the Big Bad Wolf, who's got a rap sheet as long as a moonless night? Joe's on the beat and determined to find the truth. Readers of all ages will delight in the word play and hilarious illustrations in this mystery of what really happened to Humpty Dumpty on that fateful day.