Hey Diddle Diddle: Classic Nursery Rhymes Retold

by Joe Rhatigan, O'Kif (Illustrations)

We all know " Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle," but what happened after the dish ran away with the spoon? Find out in this re-telling!

Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon...
And so begins the new and expanded version of this 500-year-old classic nursery rhyme! 

What happens next in the rest of this original manuscript promises to be silly, fun, and a must read-aloud for young children. When you read  Hey Diddle Nursery Rhymes Retold  with your little ones, you'll get to see what happened after the original nursery rhyme ended.

Follow along as a fish and a noodle try to climb up a tree , where a dancing elephant awaits, and a giraffe in a cradle cries for soup and cheese, while a sneezing sippy cup tells him to hush. There are giggles aplenty as each turn of the page offers new surprises and super-silly situations.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

Published February 13, 2017

About the author

Joe Rhatigan has authored more than fifteen books for children and adults, including Don't Unravel When You Travel and Out-of-This-World Astronomy. He has also produced several best-selling books and series, including 101 Places You Gotta See Before You're 12!, The Boo Boo Book, and the My Very Favorite Art Book series. Joe has been a poet, a teacher, a marketing manager, and a newspaper boy. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife and three children

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Appreciate the intent of the book but the patterns and rhyme schemes just don't hold up

[Corinne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun and silly extension of the classic rhyme. Very fun. Entertaining artwork.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty fun! Kids will think it’s silly.

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of silly additions to this classic nursery rhyme. Some of them didn't seem to flow as well as others, but you could always skip those pages. I really loved the illustrations as well.

[Joy Keil · Rating 4 out of 5]

The kids LOVED this... I think we read it about a hundred times... and we only had it out a few weeks.

[DonutKnow · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit weird that some of the bits didn’t really rhyme…

[Andréa]

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.