Mother Osprey
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- £6.49
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
What if Jack and Jill had been playing on a nice soft sand dune instead of that treacherous hill? And suppose Mary's pet wasn't really a lamb. What if Mary had a little...clam? Those questions - and more - are gleefully answered in Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls. This collection retells Mother Goose rhymes and celebrates America's coastlines and waterways - from sea to shining sea. Young readers will meet playful pelicans, seagulls, and otters. They'll ride wild island ponies, meet pirates, and hopefully, they'll learn the important difference between "orca" and "okra." With clever twists on old standards, Mother Osprey is a salute to sea breezes, sand, and just plain silliness
2010 Florida Publishers Association President's Book Award: Silver
5pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell
Educator Keywords: adapted nursery rhymes, Mother Goose, marine,picture book
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mother Goose rhymes are recast with a distinctly maritime theme, taking readers up and down America's waterways, from coast to coast. "One Potato, Two Potato," here "One Flamingo," becomes a musing on collective nouns for coastal species: "Seagulls form a colony, and curlews form a herd./ But cormorants are called a gulp they're such a silly bird." And rather than sugar and spice, little gulls are made of "Mischief and daring and one pickled herring,/ that's what little gulls are made of." Most of Nolan's (the Down Girl and Sit series) rhymes are only passing clever, and McLennan's (The Rainforest Grew All Around) images possess a safe, generic feel there aren't many flights of imagination on display. But this might be a nice one to tuck into the beach bag, with an eye toward turning time under the beach umbrella into teachable moments. Ages 3 7.
