This hand-picked collection of calssic nursery rhymes, all delicately and painstakingly illustrated by Salley Mavor, who is renown for her incredibly detailed fabric and cloth scenes. It took Mavor ten years to develop her own fabric relief technique to a level where she felt comfortable even considering illustrating a book. Now, Mavor embroiders and sews illustrations, each scene taking nearly a month to complete. In this book, Mavor renders a new and visionary nursery rhyme world with precision and intricacy for many a generation to treasure for years and years to come.
Reviews
"Mavor's intricate and colourfully embroidered work of art makes even the best-known childhood poems feel special and new again." (Publishers Weekly)"


Awards
Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Poetry) 2011 and Golden Kite (Picture Bk Illustration) 2011. Commended for Texas 2x2 Reading List 2011. Short-listed for Beehive Awards (Poetry) 2013.



Book Information
ISBN 9780618737406
Author Salley Mavor
Format Hardback
Page Count 72
Imprint Harcourt Children's Books
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company