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The Space Child's Mother Goose

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Author : Array
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9781930900073
Edition : 1st
ISBN : 1930900074
Label : Purple House Press
Manufacturer : Purple House Press
Number of pages : 92
Publication date : 2001-08-15
Publisher : Purple House Press
Title : The Space Child's Mother Goose
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Studio : Purple House Press

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Product Description
A witty collection of 1950s Space Age poetry for the scientific minded individual, accompanied by unusual black white line drawings.

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-30 rating:

Fantastic Book!
This is one of the classics that never gets old. It deserves to be read over and over, and passed on through the generations in your family.
Enjoy!

review by: A. Joshua SIms date: 2008-07-13 rating:

Wow .. did we really allow children to think like this
Probable-Possible, my black hen
She lays eggs in the relative when
She doesn't lay eggs in the positive now
Because she's unable to postulate how.

review by: The Analytical Mind; Have Brain; Will Travel date: 2008-05-13 rating:

Timeless Parody of the Timeless Original
One of the guilty pleasures of reading Old SF, is seeing just how badly the imagined futures of the past tend to hold up, "..as the room-sized master computer blinked and clacked in the background, our hero picked up the heavy handset and dialed the number of the rocket taxi company on the black and white rotary video phone...", but you will have to forego such joys with this surprisingly modern half-century old wonder. Not to worry, though, because the timeless hilarity more than makes up for it!

Contained within its covers are some 45 hysterically modernized Mother Goose classics with a few originals tossed in, charmingly illustrated by Marian Parry's deceptively simple line drawings, ending with a useful though slightly warped glossary to help you (or hinder you as the case may be) in getting the jokes. (Some recourse to an unabridged dictionary or a good encyclopedia may also be required.) Open the book, and you will enter a marvelously twisted universe in which Miss Muffet's arachnophobia is eased by a force field, Little Jack Horner extracts cube roots, three men go to sea in a Klein bottle, and Jack builds a Theory.

Defects? None that I can think of! One can argue that many of the in jokes will not be gotten by young children but such is true of the original nursery rhymes: Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme. Frederick Winsor tragically passed away while working on a sequel, but one might hope to someday see an expanded edition containing whatever he managed to produce before his death. Meanwhile, thanks to Purple House Press, here is a back in print book you won't mind reading over and over to your children...

in fact your children might have to remind you to quit giggling about it all to yourself and share the fun!

review by: date: 2006-11-09 rating:

A favorite since the '60s
This wonderful little book is one that I have owned several times since I first read it around 1961. Unfortunately, every time I managed to find a copy, I loaned it to someone. Of the several people I loaned each hard-won copy, none ever returned it. I guess that means people like it. For me, it has been a never-ending source of delight, even though I didn't understand most of it when I first read it at the age of 12. (Be warned: This is not a book for children. Nothing offensive; they just won't get it.) This time, I am not loaning my copy. Get your own. (And thanks, Amazon.)

review by: Just A Guy date: 2004-12-01 rating:

One of my first books, and still one of my favorites
I was born in 1952. This is the second book I remember having owning, after Dr Suess. I can't place the year exactly, but it was in the 50s.

I still have that first copy. I still read it. I enjoy it just as much or more now than I did way back when dinasoars roamed the earth.

Books don't come any better than this.

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