Cover of Humpty Dumpty and Friends: Nursery Rhymes for the Young at Heart

Humpty Dumpty and Friends: Nursery Rhymes for the Young at Heart

Meet old favorites like Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee and, of course, Humpty Dumpty. Then make new friends with some less-known rhymes like Robin the Bobbin, the Three Wise Men of Gotham, and the Lion and the Unicorn. Oleg Lipchenko has selected twenty traditional rhymes to illustrate with his enormously skillful and witty images. Perfect for gift-giving, this book demands to be shared. It is a book for both lovers of of art and of nursery rhymes.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 24 pages

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