ISBN 0866115463 - Nursery rhymes are so unoriginal that something else in the book, other than the text, has to be fantastic to make it more appealing than the other million nursery rhyme books out there. The pop-ups in this one are enough to make the book average, but not more.

Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, Hey Diddle Diddle and Rock-a-Bye Baby are the rhymes inside, each one taking up two full pages. Most of the pages are given to large pop-ups that add a little something extra to the book. No author or illustrator is listed.

The illustrations are cute and every one of them has a small extra - mice carrying a stretcher in Humpty Dumpty, blackbirds who appear to be helping Little Bo Peep and more. The small touches make the images just a little more fun. The pages are a thin cardboard which is sturdier than paper but not difficult to damage. The pop-ups, of the same thin cardboard, pop right up when you first open a new book but if you ever happen to close the book wrong and trap a pop-up the wrong way, the popping is over. Slightly tougher pages would be a nice. It's not a bad book, it's not just nothing special.

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