Hey, Mama Goose
by Jane Breskin Zalben
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While seeking a larger home for her many children, the Old Woman visits the dwellings of famous fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters and discovers "There's no place like a shoe."Tags
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Zalben, J. B. (2005). Hey, mama goose. New York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books.
Zalben and Chollat integrate various nursery rhymes into one story, creating Hey, Mama Goose. In this story, Mama Goose is a real estate agent who helps the Old Woman who lives in a Shoe find a bigger house. However, this home happens to belong to Snow White. This event then forces Snow White out of her home and into Rapunzel’s castle. There Snow White rents a room from a gnome. Then Rumpelstiltskin decides to move into Hansel and Gretel’s cottage. As the story continues, readers encounter all the major nursery rhyme characters.
Hey, Mama Goose is a fun twist on a traditional nursery rhyme. Young children will giggle as one of the three little pigs kisses show more Sleeping Beauty; the three bears sell their famous hot porridge from a stand; and Hansel and Gretel snack on lettuce. The illustrations are bright and full of color. They go well with this lighthearted story.
However, children might not understand how this story makes fun of traditional nursery rhymes. Thus they will probably need to know the endings of traditional nursery rhymes first before reading Hey, Mama Goose. show less
Zalben and Chollat integrate various nursery rhymes into one story, creating Hey, Mama Goose. In this story, Mama Goose is a real estate agent who helps the Old Woman who lives in a Shoe find a bigger house. However, this home happens to belong to Snow White. This event then forces Snow White out of her home and into Rapunzel’s castle. There Snow White rents a room from a gnome. Then Rumpelstiltskin decides to move into Hansel and Gretel’s cottage. As the story continues, readers encounter all the major nursery rhyme characters.
Hey, Mama Goose is a fun twist on a traditional nursery rhyme. Young children will giggle as one of the three little pigs kisses show more Sleeping Beauty; the three bears sell their famous hot porridge from a stand; and Hansel and Gretel snack on lettuce. The illustrations are bright and full of color. They go well with this lighthearted story.
However, children might not understand how this story makes fun of traditional nursery rhymes. Thus they will probably need to know the endings of traditional nursery rhymes first before reading Hey, Mama Goose. show less
Imagine every fairy tale happening at the same time, all intermingled, with Mama Goose as your realtor. And throw in a bit of "the grass isn't always greener on the other side" kind of message. That is this book.
A nice fractured fairy tale that basically entails a lot of moving by various fairy tale characters. The lesson that is wrapped up in the story is one of appreciating what you have when you have it. It's not so very different from the famous quote from the 1939 movie adaptation of The Wizard of Oz; there's no place like home.
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Jane Breskin Zalben was born in New York City, where she attended the High School of Music and Art. She received a B.A. in art from Queens College, and then went on to study lithography at the Pratt Graphics Center. She is a well-known author and illustrator who has published about fifty books for young readers. Jane's began her career as a show more graphic designer and worked for several New York publishing houses, including Scribner's, where she was the art director of children's books. A book designer as well as an artist, she is as concerned with type and layout as she is with illustration. Ms. Zalben has been involved in many workshops, including "A Sense of Wonderment: Children's Book Illustration" at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, and exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Justin Schiller Gallery (where she was given a show of her work along with Maurice Sendak), Every Picture Tells a Story, Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Bush Gallery, and the American Institute of Graphics Art Show. Jane was a writer/artist-in-residence at Vassar's Publishing Institute and was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City for eighteen years, where she taught courses in the illustration, design, and writing of children's books. She was a recent chair of the Society of Illustrator's The Original Art Exhibition. Zalben's acclaimed picture books and novels explore basic issues of friendship, family, self-reliance, and inner strength. Beni's First Chanukah, the first in a series of Jewish Holiday books for children, was inspired by and dedicated to her sons, Alexander and Jonathan. Jane Breskin Zalben devotes her time to her work and to traveling around the world lecturing on children's books and encouraging children and aspiring artists and writers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Mama Goose; Old Woman; Rapunzel; Sleeping Beauty; Hansel and Gretel; Rumpelstiltskin (show all 8); Snow White; Jack and Jill
- Dedication
- To my lovable threesome (SZ, AZ, & JZ) --wherever you are is "home." And to Stephanie Owens Lurie--for giving me another kind of home.
- First words
- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
- Quotations
- "Take it!" cried Hansel, explaining their woes. "The sweets made us too fat to fit in our clothes." They jogged up and down, determined to shed the pounds they had gained from the iced gingerbread.
Through briars and roses, a princess awoke to an oink and a grunt when the evil spell broke. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And sighed to herself, "There's no place like a shoe."
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