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A treasury of traditional nursery rhymes includes favorite characters like Humpty Dumpty, Three Blind Mice, and Little Miss Muffet.
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Set in a close-knit, city neighborhood, this collection offers young readers a modern twist to more than forty classic rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty and Wee Willie Winkie.
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Guided Reading Level: NR

Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and many others fill the pages of this richly illustrated collection of Mother Goose tales for young readers of all ages.
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Guided Reading Level: NR

The acclaimed illustrator presents fifty of his favorite Mother Goose rhymes and illustrates them all with lively, detail-filled, full-color paintings, from “Jack and Jill” to “Old King Cole.”
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The beloved illustrator of such books as The Velveteen Rabbit and The Teddy Bear’s Picnic presents an adorable collection of his favorite Mother Goose rhymes accompanied by his trademark teddy bears, including “Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Bears in a Tub” and “Little Bear Blue.”
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Designed with budding readers in mind, each of these tales starring familiar nursery rhyme characters is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together.
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Guided Reading Level: J

An illustrated collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including well-known ones such as “Bah, Bah, Black Sheep” and “Little Boy Blue” and less familiar ones such as “Doctor Foster Went to Gloucester” and “When Clouds Appear Like Rocks and Towers”
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A beautifully illustrated compilation of seventy-five Mother Goose poems includes many old favorites, as well as some less familiar, but still classic, rhymes.
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Presents a selection of popular rhymes from Mother Goose, including “Little Boy Blue,” “Twinkle, Twinkle,” and “Yankee Doodle.”
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Folk art paintings from a world-renowned folk artist accompany a compilation of more than sixty of the best-loved Mother Goose rhymes.
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An illustrated collection of twenty nursery rhymes related to time.
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Witty, bold illustrations set in a big city present a new take on the classic Mother Goose rhymes, as Little Miss Muffet meets a spider at the diner and Mary’s little lamb catches a cab to follow Mary to school.
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