Little Miss Muffet

by Iza Trapani (Illustrator)

Overview

• A beautifully illustrated take on the classic nursery rhyme
• Ideal for toddlers and preschool students
• Follows the adventures of Little Miss Muffet as she tries to avoid spiders and other creatures 

Enjoy the classic Little Miss Muffet in a new way with Iza Trapani’s beautiful illustrations and clever retelling. Sweet Little Miss Muffet only wants to eat her curd and whey in peace, but all sorts of bugs and creatures seem to disagree! She runs away from a spider only to find a frog and other animals. The reader travels and wonders with her how she will ever return to her tuffet. 

The story of Little Miss Muffet, now in paperback, is a delightful nursery rhyme and bedtime story for children. Iza Trapani’s illustrations bring the tale to life in a new way and will surely make this book a keepsake for your child’s fiction collection.

Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629146164
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	01/13/2015
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Iza Trapani was just seven years old when she and her mother left Warsaw, Poland, for the United States. An award-winning writer and illustrator, Trapani’s work has been featured on PBS Storytime and at the White House Easter Egg Roll. She also received the Rip Van Winkle Award, presented by the School Library Media Specialists of Southeastern New York, for her contribution to children’s literature. Her bestselling book, The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, has sold more than one million copies. She resides in Woodstock, New York.

Editorial Reviews

“Trapani slyly inserts clues as to what might next befall the hapless Miss Muffet in her brightly colored illustrations, which humorously capture both Miss Muffet’s primness and her fright. . . . A fun romp.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Trapani slyly inserts clues as to what might next befall the hapless Miss Muffet in her brightly colored illustrations, which humorously capture both Miss Muffet’s primness and her fright. . . . A fun romp.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

12/01/2013
PreS-K—Trapani begins this delightful picture book with the six lines of the traditional nursery rhyme. Then a grand imagination transports Little Miss Muffet into other adventurous encounters with nature, where she meets a frog, a moose, and a crow, to name a few. Little Miss Muffet finally settles down after her harrowing day to bedtime coziness. The artwork clearly supports the humor found in the eight additional verses. Children can view a variety of perspectives, such as the child falling head first into water, exposing only her black shoes and drenched pantaloons. Group leaders can use this story to guide the audience as they act out the abundance of action words with the verses. Simple musical notation is included.—Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA

School Library Journal

2013-08-15
The most famous scaredy-cat of them all experiences fright after fright before finally getting to enjoy her curds and whey. Trapani continues Miss Muffet's story: "All through the room, / She zipped and she zoomed / And looked for a place to hide. // A mouse came to find her; / It scurried behind her. / The dainty Miss bolted outside." From a frog in the bushes and a crow at the top of a tree to a fish next to her canoe and a moose on the shore, it's one thing after another. Finally, she unwinds in a bubble bath before once again settling on her tuffet (here pictured as an upholstered footstool) for a snack. Readers will barely be able to contain themselves when they spy the spider climbing up the tuffet leg. Indeed, Trapani slyly inserts clues as to what might next befall the hapless Miss Muffet in her brightly colored illustrations, which humorously capture both Miss Muffet's primness and her fright. The rhythm and rhyme are not as tight as in others of Trapani's extended nursery rhymes--she rhymes "scuttered" with "water" and "canoe" with "out to"--but it's still a fun romp. The back cover includes the music and the words to all eight verses. Those with similar fears may feel empathy for Miss Muffet's plight; others will just giggle at the improbability of it all. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews