The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose: Enhanced Edition, with Five Full-Color Prints Added

by Edward Nudelman and Jessie Willcox Smith

Cherished for their sensitive and detailed depictions of children, the works of Jessie Willcox Smith are some of the most recognized and remembered images of youth for adults today. One of America's foremost book and magazine illustrators of the early twentieth century, Smith saw in children a unique quality of innocence that she brilliantly portrayed
through the creative use of color and a keen sense of the personality of the child. This edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882898442
• ISBN13: 9780882898445
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.2" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Beautifully Illustrated!

This is a lovely book that I look forward to reading to my first grandchild due to be born in August, 2007.

Sumptuous Illustrations Accompany Historical Nursery Classic

This splendid book should be in every nursery library. It contains hundreds of nursery rhymes, some very well known to American children and some not so familiar including the 51 rhymes with morals found in the original Mother Goose collection that was printed by Isaiah Thomas in Massachusetts in the years just following the Revolutionary War. The book is printed on high quality silk-smooth paper and is printed in large clear type with charming black and white accent illustrations of children and characters from that era. Familiar and well-known Mother Goose verses as well as perhaps unkown verses are included. Many beautiful illustrations by the amazing Jessie Willcox Smith enhance this volume, a few in black and white, but most in full color, full page glory. Smith, born in 1863 is, in my opinion, one of the finest illustrators of children ever. She never used professional models and preferred to search out the right child for the picture. As a result her illustrations bring images to us straight out of history and capture with an appreciative heart the sweetness of childhood, unsurpassed. This book is truly a treasure, one that is sure to be enjoyed for many years to come.