*Picture book, fantasy, preschool through second graders
*Little Miss Muffet as main character
*Rating: David Conway has written a clever picture book, incorporating many of our favorite nursery rhymes that we can share with a whole new generation of children. And of course, Melanie Williamson’s illustrations are cute, cute, cute!
Short, short summary:
Little Miss Muffet is tired of being in her nursery rhyme. She is tired of that spider always scaring her. So, she decides to go to the next page of the book and jump into that nursery rhyme. But each time, she’s unhappy–it’s not so fun falling down the hill with Jack and Jill or running away with the spoon (turns out the dish gets a bit jealous). She winds up causing utter chaos in nursery rhyme world, so she sneaks back to her own rhyme. . .So, what do I do with this book?
1. Read the NEW way the rhymes are written with Little Miss Muffet put in. See if the children notice the difference. Are they familiar with the other rhyme? How has it changed? Have children repeat both rhymes after you!
2. SO, Miss Muffet still has her problem at the end of the book. Let children problem solve and come up with a way to solve her problem. Could she go to a completely different book? Is there a nursery rhyme that would work for her? Could she befriend the spider in some way?
3. Study these illustrations! They are full of things that are not in the text. What do children notice? How do the illustrations work to tell the story with the text? Let students draw their own illustrations with Miss Muffet in their favorite nursery rhyme after studying the ones in the book.
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