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Mother Goose herself invites kids to come out to play with all their favorite nursery rhyme characters in this popular Mother Goose rhyme.

Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day.

Parents looking for bedtime stories with a fresh twist on a familiar nursery rhyme need look no further. Using the popular Girls and Boys Come Out to Play Mother Goose poem as a backdrop, illustrator Tracey Campbell Pearson spins an exciting visual narrative in which Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play, taking them on a moonlit adventure in verse. Young readers will love pouring over Tracey's richly detailed artwork full of diverse kids, animals, and beloved nursery rhyme characters, including Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Old King Cole. After the fun is over, Mother Goose leads everyone home to sleep snug in their beds

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ISBN-13:	9780823447138
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	04/13/2021
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.25(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Tracey Campbell Pearson has written and illustrated many books for children, including The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson which was a Booklist Editor's Choice and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and Elephant's Story, which was an ABC Best Book for Children. She lives in Vermont.

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01/18/2021
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.)

Publishers Weekly

★ 05/01/2021
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

School Library Journal

2021-02-09
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)

Kirkus Reviews

★ "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. . . . this clever book will delight all readers."—School Library Journal, Starred Review

"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 . . ."—The Horn Book

"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. . . . An engaging, lively addition to the Mother Goose canon."—Kirkus Reviews

"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 nursery rhyme fantasy that offers both excitement and coziness." —Publishers Weekly

"While letting the traditional phrases work their magic, Pearson captures the spirit of the nonsense in lively ink drawings with watercolor washes. . . . With plenty of intriguing characters and visual details to discover, here’s a lively interpretation of a classic nursery rhyme." —Booklist

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