At last I’ve found a nursery rhyme book that’s like the one I remember as a child. This beautifully produced book, with its silver-edged pages, promises so many delights inside. The 29 nursery favourites include ‘Jack and Jill’, ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’, ‘Polly, Put the Kettle On’ and even all the verses of ‘Old King Cole’. I think my favourites are ‘Oranges and Lemons’, which used to be sung at school as a playground game, and ‘A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go’, which takes up three pages!

The gorgeous artwork in this book is by Dorothy M Wheeler, who was Enid Blyton’s illustrator and it’s her artwork from the original book in 1916 that is featured again in this edition.

And if that isn’t enough, you also get the music to every nursery rhyme so that you can have a sing-a-long around the piano.

As Chris Riddell, UK Children’s Laureate, says in his foreword: ‘This beautiful edition of nursery rhymes is a lyrical echo of a bygone era.’

Reviewd by Merle Morcom
Age guide minus 9 months+