The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster

What do you think could happen if a nursery rhyme character decided to make a change? Well, in The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster, the keyword being disaster, Little Miss Muffet causes a serious ruckus. You see, one day Little Miss Muffet decided she wanted to visit some of the other nursery rhymes on the other pages. The Grand Old Duke of York had too much marching going on. On the next page, Little Miss Muffet didn't care much for broken crowns when she stumbled across Jack and Jill. This goes on and on as Little Miss Muffet encounters Three Blind Mice, Johnny Flynn and Tommy Stout and The Cat and the Fiddle. But it was when she met the Dish and the Spoon that all the ruckus begins.

David Conway takes kids on a journey through some of show more the favorite and most recognizable nursery rhymes. Bigger than life characters created in fun colorful drawings are silly. There are lots of funny things going on in every part of the page. Kids will love the challenges and could perhaps create their own outcome of this hilarious tale. show less

Funny enough for preschoolers I suppose, but it's really really important to value spiders as a key part of our ecosystems and not to encourage ppl to fear them. And adult me didn't particularly like much besides the basic concept anyway.

There's nothing all that subtle in here for the adult, but my son really liked this book where Little Miss Muffet goes looking for a better nursery rhyme to be in. In fact, this time the humor is aimed at the little ones, unlike (I suppose) for instance [b:The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales|407429|The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales|Jon Scieszka|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1359388221s/407429.jpg|1814587] which my 3 year old hated. These are all familiar rhymes and one of the page spreads they are all mixed up, something my kid really liked and lingered over trying to sort out the mess ...

My son would have rated the book higher, it is truly cute, but in fact he liked it so much that he show more was having me read it night after night, something which started to wear me, because like I said it's not really that subtle. show less

I really enjoyed this book and think it would be great for a school age crowd. Little Miss Muffet decides she is bored and wants to find another nursery rhyme to be in. She tries several but they are just not working for her until she gets to the “Hey Diddle Diddle” page and the cow says she can play the part of the dish. The dish is not happy about that and starts hollering. It starts a ruckus that spills out into the other rhymes and now everything is chaotic! Little Miss Muffet then tiptoes back to her rightful place. This is very funny and the illustrations are fantastic.

After becoming tired with her boring little nursery rhyme story, Little Miss Muffet gets off her tuffet and sets off to find something new. She ends up interrupting nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme causing chaos everywhere she steps foot. Tired and frightened, she tiptoes back to her own story, contented that her story is as "boring" as it is.

Characters: Little Miss Muffet and other nursery rhyme characters
Setting: Nursery Rhyme World
Theme: Contentment

Post-reading discussions could include:
gratitude; courage; independence; why we have rules/laws; safety; and contentment.

Little Miss Muffett wants to be in a different nursery rhyme in this book. She tries to be a part of other ones, but does not like them. It truly is a disaster because, in the end she is frightened away by a spider jsut as her rhyme says. It really is a cute book that I think children would enjoy very much.

Little Miss Muffet is bored with her nursery rhymes. So she decided to try all the other nursery rhymes. However she realized she was scared or annoyed of them and didn't want to read them anymore. She returned back to her own in the end.