Mother Goose to the Rescue!

by Nate Evans, Stephanie Gwyn Brown, Jessica Gibson (Illustrator)

Overview

Join Mother Goose and her band of nursery rhyme characters as they jump to the rescue in this rhyming picture book celebrating the heroism of firefighters!

DING-DONG! Alarm bells chime
in Mother Goose's House of Rhyme!

Welcome to Mother Goose's House of Rhyme, where a team of firefighting nursery rhyme characters are ready to leap into the action! When the Queen of Hearts's bakery goes up in flame, Chief Mother Goose, The Five Little Piggies, Mary and her little lamb, and the rest of the team are on the case.

With fun, rhyming text, and featuring classic nursery rhyme characters, Mother Goose to the Rescue is the perfect way to celebrate firefighters everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593093580
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD470L (what's this?)
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Nate Evans is the New York Times best-selling author/illustrator of more than forty children's books, including Ponyella with Laura Numeroff. His most recent picture book is Cookiesaurus Rex, co-authored with Amy Fellner Dominy. Tyrannosaurus Ralph is his first middle-grade graphic novel, with artwork by his brother, Vince Evans. Before turning to his true love--children's books--Nate was a greeting card artist. Nate is also a seventh-grade teacher and loves to share his passion for books with his students.

Stephanie Gwyn Brown experiments with traditional and digital media in her Los Angeles studio. She is an author, painter, poet, illustrator, designer, aspiring puppeteer-musician, and award-winning experimental animator. When not tending her backyard menagerie, she may be found at the Natural History Museum, in a public library, or in a classroom. Stephanie is the author of Professor Aesop's the Crow and the Pitcher, and Bang! Boom! Roar! A Busy Crew of Dinosaurs.

Jessica Gibson is an illustrator from Michigan with a love for animals and nature, traveling, and everything cute. She has loved drawing ever since she was little, and was raised on a healthy diet of reading lots of books. Jessica has worked with various publishers and illustrated books such as Very Lulu and Cookie & Milk. When she not working, she enjoys crafting, cooking, and snuggling with her cats.

Editorial Reviews

2020-12-15
When there’s a fire to be tackled, only a qualified nursery-rhyme crew will do!

Pink-coiffed Mother Goose may look demure when reading in her House of Rhyme, but when there is danger, she springs into action! The Queen of Tarts is facing a bakery fire, so it’s up to the famous fowl and her crew of multiracial nursery-rhyme characters to put it out. After “gear[ing] up in forty seconds flat,” everyone races to the fire. At the blaze, they display a wide array of different firefighting techniques, including the use of water cannons, a fire ax, dirt, a bucket brigade, and helicopters with bucket scoops (loaded with jam). The familiar stars of everyone’s favorite rhymes pair nicely with this technical know-how of equipment and expertise. Chief M. Goose herself commands from a “high-tech rig” tricked out with radios and a satellite. Rhymes scan consistently, and female-presenting characters are given just as much agency as their male-presenting counterparts. Insider nursery-rhyme jokes also abound. For example, the last readers see of the heroic squad, they’re heading off to answer an emergency call from Ladybug. One might quibble about the fact that dumping jam on a fire would almost certainly intensify it, but in the end the book’s having too much fun to care. (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at 22% of actual size.)

Firefighter-loving kids will jump over candlesticks to get their hands on these cute and capable emergency workers. (Picture book. 2-6)

Kirkus Reviews