Usborne Illustrated Book of Nursery Rhymes

This book is a delight. The front cover has a slight padded feel to it and the characters are in a glossy print contrasting with the matt blue of the book cover. There are over 100 nursery rhymes and all are illustrated in a watercolour format. Some are very familiar and others not so. If you can't remember the 'tune' of the rhyme you can make up your own.

A really lovely nursery rhyme book. I bought it to read the rhymes with my baby when he was just a few weeks old, and it's a book that we'll continue reading for years to come, and hopefully when he's older he can join in with the rhymes! He's 4 months old at the moment and seems to enjoy listening and looking at the pictures. Good points: - Nice padded, squashy cover - Large selection (over 100) of rhymes which include famous sayings and lullabies as well as nursery rhymes, from long ones such as 'The Owl and the Pussycat' to short rhymes just a couple of lines long. I've added photographs of the Index pages of the book so you can see the full selection. - a nice size - quite small, so easily portable - I've added a photograph of the book next to a sheet of A4 paper for an idea of the size. - Lovely illustrations throughout the book to accompany the majority of the rhymes. Before I purchased this book, I read a review which was disappointed with the illustrations, but I was pleased with them. Not every rhyme/page is illustrated with pictures - some pages are simply decorated with swirly patterns (as in the photograph I've added of the page featuring 'Solomon Grundy' and 'Thirty Days...') but the vast majority of rhymes have accompanying illustrations - some are illustrated/more colourfully decorated than others (such as the photo I've added of the double page featuring 'The Owl and the Pussycat').

Brightly coloured, lovely illustrations and covers most of the well known rhymes with a few new ones too.

Remembered from several decades ago, I bought this book for my new grandson as the traditional nursery rhyme these days seems lost in masses of celebrity or TV series based story books. I was pleased to see nearly all the old favorites in there. It was also interesting to note that several consist of first verses only. I thought it was my memory that I could never remember what came next but it seems, no, that is all there was to learn when reading for the first time. It's worth looking some up just for interest. A great reference for over a hundred mainly traditional rhymes with good rhythm and cadence which is great for getting young babes interested. Try Ride a Cock Horse while bouncing your youngster in time and see.

Lovely traditional book . Lovely illustrations.

Beautiful book

Bought this for my gt gt grandaughter who's four,really lovely book of old and new nursery rhymes.great value for money. I find it strange that the hard back version was cheaper than the paper back.

This book has all the nursery rhymes you could want

Colourful book with wonderful drawings! Not only for children, it’s a pleasure for adults too.

Beautiful selection of favourite nursery rhymes.

dessins un peu simplistes et peu nombreux. Pour un enfant qui ne sait pas lire une belle illustration est indispensable, je pense qu'il y a mieux, pas de cd comme j'ai acheté un cd sans livre cela tombe bien, je vais mettre le CD avec les principales comptines y sont (mais il manque old mc Donald que j'adore)il y en a 98

i love this book. it has a wide range of beautiful rhymes

It's got so many of them, just as I remembered them. Beautifully illustrated.