FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Johnson, David A.

Old Mother Hubbard: A Nursery Rhyme

(2) PS Adding some pleasant but superfluous stanzas (and omitting those stanzas concerning beer and wine), the familiar rhyme has here been illustrated with delicate ink, watercolor, and pencil paintings featuring a more-or-less nineteenth-century cast. Visually sophisticated and with a sober palette, this may be a little too low-key for the nursery-rhyme audience, but it is certainly an elegant version of an old favorite.

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