Girls and boys come out to play / illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0823447138 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780823447138 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780823447138
- ISBN: 0823447138
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: New York City : Holiday House, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Margaret Ferguson Books." |
Summary, etc.: | "Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play and when they do, they meet some of her most famous nursery rhyme characters"-- Provided by publisher. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-6. Holiday House. Grades K-1. Holiday House. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Nursery rhymes. Children's poetry. Nursery rhymes. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Weston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Weston Public Library | J 398.8 PEARSON (Text) | 34053150424363 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
Publishers Weekly
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Mother Goose, wings outstretched, alights on the roof of a house with a binary invitation for a neighborhood's children: "Girls and boys come out to play." Still clutching stuffed animals, they tumble forth in twos and threes under the full moon, looking a little like stuffed animals themselves in pajamas and slippers, their dogs lolloping alongside them. Soon they meet Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, and a host of other nursery rhyme celebrities. Plans to make a delicious dessert unfold ("You find the milk... and I'll find the flour") when Mother Goose realizes that "a halfpenny roll will serve us all" may be over-optimistic; the pudding mixture for the crowd requires the famous "rub-a-dub" tub. Quiet cheer and sweet-tempered humor mark artwork by Pearson (Tuck-in Time), who sprinkles her loosely drawn pen, ink, and watercolor spreads with incidents for readers to discover (a child who's a bit older than the rest sports pigtails with a life of their own; a cat laps spilled milk; a shaggy dog makes off with the halfpenny roll). And at last, post-pudding sleepiness overtakes the crowd in a nursery rhyme fantasy that offers both excitement and coziness. Ages 4--6. (Mar.)
The Horn Book Review
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
The Horn Book
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"Girls and boys come out to play, / The moon doth shine as bright as day. / Leave your supper, / Leave your sleep, / And come with your playfellows into the street." Pearson's single-rhyme Mother Goose opens on a contemporary nighttime scene of a diverse neighborhood of children getting ready for bed. Then Mother Goose appears and issues the titular invitation. The children frolic briefly in the street, after which Mother Goose leads them "up the ladder and down the wall" -- in this rendition, a demarcation, as the setting now changes to a more pastoral traditional fairy-tale world inhabited by such nursery-rhyme characters as Humpty Dumpty (and all the king's men), the dish and the spoon, and Little Boy Blue. (The players are helpfully identified on the CIP page and on endpapers containing eight additional rhymes.) A moment of humor arrives when Mother Goose realizes that just one halfpenny roll will not feed them all, as the rhyme claims, and everyone pitches in to make more "pudding." Sprightly watercolor illustrations in a mix of double-page spreads and vignettes pace the action perfectly; the many details will keep and hold youngsters' attentions -- a small child who hangs back ("Come with a good will...or not at all"); Jack and Jill's pail being used to milk the cow to make the pudding. In the end, with full bellies and having been read a story (from a Mother Goose book, natch), the now-yawning children head home for bed, and Mother Goose flies off into the night. "Good night. Sweet dreams." Martha V. Parravano March/April 2021 p.69(c) Copyright 2021. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal Review
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
School Library Journal
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PreS-Gr 1--From a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that originated in the 1700s and was slightly modified in the 1900s comes the version here. A small bespectacled brown child with black double ponytails is reading a book of rhymes at bedtime when a large goose wearing a yellow T-shirt beckons from outside. Mother Goose calls the girls and boys to come out to play and they eagerly oblige, leaving their suppers and bedclothes, just as the nursery rhyme says. The children follow Mother Goose "up the ladder and down the wall" to a field where they discover the nursery rhyme characters spied in the end papers. Together the children and characters, who are brown, pink, white, and Black, and wear costumes or pajamas depending on their roles, act out the rest of the lines in the rhyme as they gather the ingredients, make a pudding, and sleepily head back home: "Good night. Sweet dreams." Pearson's pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations easily convey the exuberance of her characters be they human or animal. Her dynamic scenes are full of details that keep the story zipping along with the text. VERDICT With all this action bracketed by the characters in the end papers, along with their own rhymes, this clever book will delight all readers.--Catherine Callegari, Gay-Kimball Lib., Troy, NH
BookList Review
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
Booklist
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This Mother Goose rhyme begins one brightly moonlit evening, when children are urged to join their compatriots outdoors. After climbing up a ladder and down a wall, they all share one bun before they're asked to find milk and flour for making a pudding. While letting the traditional phrases work their magic, Pearson captures the spirit of the nonsense in lively ink drawings with watercolor washes. Here it's Mother Goose who calls the kids into the street. After climbing a low stone wall where Humpty Dumpty sits quietly and a cat plays a fiddle, a diverse crew of children, along with their dogs, cats, and stuffed animals, mingle with nursery rhyme characters. They make and eat the pudding together before going home to bed. Useful as well as decorative, the endpapers present the first verses of eight familiar nursery rhymes, while the surrounding pictures introduce their characters, who frolic through the pages of this buoyant picture book. With plenty of intriguing characters and visual details to discover, here's a lively interpretation of a classic nursery rhyme.
Kirkus Review
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
Kirkus Reviews
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Who wouldn't want to gallivant with Mother Goose? Chanting the classic nursery rhyme "Girls and Boys Come Out To Play," that esteemed avian invites a bevy of kids from a city neighborhood to leave their homes and join her for an evening of merriment. The racially diverse, pajama-clad, stuffed-animal--toting children eagerly accept the invitation, accompanied by some dogs and cats. Whom do these adventurers meet on their nighttime jaunt? Why, none other than some of Mother Goose's most famous characters, including Old King Cole, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, the fiddling cat from "Hey Diddle Diddle," and the three men in the tub. After some playtime and a filling repast they help prepare, the kids are more than ready for Mother Goose to lead them home to bed; the exhausted, happy wanderers are last seen all comfortably tucked in, live and toy pets in tow. Text is kept to a minimum on spreads, and the old-fashioned language of the brief narrative is charming. The cheery, bouncy text of the rhyme could turn out to become a favorite of young readers/listeners sitting in laps or hearing this in group sessions. The loose pen-and-ink--and-watercolor illustrations suit the action well, suggesting energetic movement and lighthearted activity. A "cast of characters" is identified at the beginning of the book. Front and rear endpapers each include eight well-known Mother Goose rhymes. (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at 64% of actual size.) An engaging, lively addition to the Mother Goose canon. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.