Humpty Dumpty

by Hazel Quintanilla (Artist)

Overview

Sing along to the time-honored nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty illustrated for very young children by Hazel Q.

Humpty Dumpty is depicted as an adorable crab who takes a tumble under the sea in this reimagined version of the traditional rhyme. This sturdy board book is designed to withstand lots of love and learning, making it a wonderful addition to baby's first library.

Hazel Q. Nursery Rhymes celebrate children's best-loved read along nursery rhymes and songs. Nursery rhymes are the classic introduction for babies and young children to the idea of storytelling. While delighting in the rhyming words and appealing illustrations featuring animal characters, children are boosting their language development and learning social skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781486716692
Publisher:	Flowerpot Press
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Series:	Hazel Q Nursery Rhymes
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Hazel Quintanilla has a passion for illustration. She has spent her life mastering a wide variety of media. She has worked on over twenty series in the US, England, and India. Hazel lives and works in Guatemala with her husband and their three cute dogs.

Editorial Reviews

2019-08-26
In this retold nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty is a hapless, egg-shaped crab.

The orange-red protagonist sits on a wall that looks to be the sunken ruin of a sand castle and then suffers the inevitable fall. The king's horses and king's men are sea horse stretcher bearers and an operating trio of a shrimp, a shark, and a dolphin, respectively. True to the rhyme, they are unsuccessful in healing Humpty Dumpty, so the crab, who likely needs better health insurance, is sent on his way still cracked and bandaged. Animals similarly star in companion titles. A bear plays the role of "baker's man" in Pat-a-Cake, marking a cake "for baby and me" with a large blue B and inexplicably frosting it before baking it. The stars of Jack and Jill are two goats, one white and one black, respectively, who climb a peak only for Jack to fall and break a horn, which is somehow miraculously fixed on the final page. In Mary Had a Little Lamb, Mary is a purple lamb who has a beloved stuffed lamb toy with whitish-gray fleece. This is the only classic text that is condensed; the repetition of the song is absent, which makes singing in time to the page turns difficult. In the other titles, the lines of rhyme flow quite nicely; particularly effective is the page-turn pause before Jill comes "tumbling after." Quintanilla's imagery has an endearing cuteness, featuring animals with voluminous eyes on oversize heads.

With its companions, a baby-friendly classic. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews