 | Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls Author: Lucy Nolan Reading level: Ages 4-8 Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing (June 10, 2009) ISBN-10: 1607180413 ISBN-13: 978-1607180418 |
If you loved the Mother Goose nursery rhymes as a child, you will love this fun new take on them with an Osprey as the Mother Goose. The rhymes are retold with a fun new sea and ocean theme to them.
Remember the sweet little rhyme of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”? Well now it’s “Mary Had a Little Clam'” and the clam’s life lends a certain giggle to it as the rhymes tells the clam arrived to school in September and school was out for summer break , so the clam was steamed.
I have a feeling you can guess the original rhymes that these are a retelling of. You find other classic rhymes retold as:
- “Jack & June”
- “Bouys & Gulls” – Ok, that one may be a little harder. The first line is, “What are little bouys made of, made of?”. Now you know the original rhyme!
- “Sing a Song of Sixpence”
- “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
- and many others.
This is one of the books that my children have asked to have read to them over and over. The child readers in the family are happy to oblige their little brothers and sisters too. I catch them giggling on many of the rhymes.
This is a definite keeper!
About the Book:
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. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Poem-related fun facts and a Map activity.
About the Author:
Lucy Nolan spent many childhood days roaming two very special islands: Pawleys Island, SC, and Amelia Island, FL, where she collected the family stories that were shared around the dinner tables of hundred-year-old homes. It was only natural that she would eventually combine her love of the sea and storytelling into Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls. This playful book retells Mother Goose rhymes and embodies everything Lucy loves about America's coastlines! Lucy has been writing since she was four years old and is the author of several picture books and the popular Down Girl and Sit chapter books. She is also a two-time winner in the South Carolina Fiction project, sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission. Lucy lives in Columbia, SC, with her daughter and two rambunctious dogs. Award-winning illustrator Connie McLennan has been a freelance artist for over 25 years, since attending Academy of Art College in San Francisco. In addition to illustrating Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls, she has also illustrated The Rainforest Grew All Around, River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers, Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, and Octavia and her Purple Ink Cloud for Sylvan Dell Publishing. Her studio is at her home in California, where she lives with her husband, teenage son, and one big, black cat.
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