Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason

by Wallace Tripp and Mother Goose

Book Overview

A selection of Mother Goose rhymes including "Old King Cole," "Jack Be Nimble," and many other well- and lesser-known verses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316852821
• ISBN13: 9780316852821
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 12

Customer Reviews

One of the best Nursery Rhyme Books out there

My Grandparents bought this book for me when I was born. Even when I was very small, nursery rhymes had little interest for me. However, the illustrations in this book always held me riveted. Unfortunately, that book was lost in a move at some point. Now that I have a boy of my own, I'm buying a copy of it for him. If you want your child(ren) to be prolific readers, the first step is buying books with detailed, interesting illustrations. This is a great place to start. I highly recommend it.

Great Rhymes, Great pictures, Great puns

This is a book for the nursery rhyme set that erudite parents will enjoy as well. It has one or two standards (some not so standard) per page, cleverly illustrated with a wide range of the cutest anthropomorphic animals since Walt Kelly's "Pogo". The rhymes and pictures alone would make it a three-star book, a good standard collection. But there's more. Mr. Tripp has his animals make little asides, much like the penguin in "Oliphant", and scatters sight gags liberally throughout his illustrations. For "Higglety-pigglety, my black hen, she lays eggs for gentlemen", for instance, a happy bear admires the hen and says "egg-squisite".A list of four dozen contestants at a pie eating contest includes "Sally Forth" and "Robin Banks". Scattered about the clouds for "There was an old woman tossed on a blanket" are a pretty complete set of milestones from aviation history; spitfire, sopwith camel, X-1, mercury capsule, and a fellow with a dozen swans in a silken harness.I was glad I bought the hardcover edition; the paperback would have worn out.