What If Jack Wasn't So Nimble: Mother Goose Characters Reimagined

Bridging the gap between humour and poetry, this collection of 64 reimagined nursery rhymes will conjure up memories of verses learned in childhood. Each of the author's new rhymes is built upon elements of a Mother Goose original. Familiar characters make their appearance but their relatable experience is freshly conceived, for example:

• Humpty Dumpty equivocates, by sitting on a fence, and avoids falling off a wall;
• Betty Blue, without a benefactor to replace her lost shoe, adapts, with ...