Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes

Traditional nursery rhymes illustrated in "hand-sewn fabric relief collages." Most of the rhymes are familiar - old classics including Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, and the like. But a few may be so old as to be new,

"I'm dusty Bill from Vinegar Hill. Never had a

bath and never will."

The depictions of the exquisitely detailed needlework are simply stunning. Even a child who can't appreciate the work involved will know that this book is something special.

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LibraryThing member janeyiaC

The Pocketful of Posies by Sally Mavor is book filled with different classical nursery rhymes. What I like about this book, more than Arnold Lobel is the illustrations. The images in this book is more diverse with real life people, or animals doing human like things. I think this book would be

great for pre-school - Kindergarten. The nursery rhymes has words that repeats throughout the nursery and has words that sounds similar. This will help students distinguish words that sound alike and help students pronounce words.

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LibraryThing member 2wonderY

A quite beguiling and clever illustration method. Mavor creates her scenes with felt and thread, in flattened 3-D. It's the next stage up from stumpwork.

LibraryThing member pussreboots

Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor won the Horn picture book award in 2011. It's well deserving of the award, being the mostly uniquely styled nursery rhyme collection I've ever seen.

Salley Mavor sews miniature dolls, animals and other items to build the scenes for

these nursery rhymes. The items used include naturally died wool, buttons, lace, beads, and sequence. The collection itself has poems and rhymes the author / illustrator remembers from her own childhood.

The rhymes are a good mixture of classics and lesser known ones. There's an index that is searchable by first lines. The wide range of selected poems combined with the outstanding and unique illustrative style make this book stand out.

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LibraryThing member jfoti

I thought this was a wonderful book. I thought it was a wonderful collection of many famous and recognized nursery rhymes. This book was successful because it gathered so many notable nursery rhymes in one place, giving children a compact collection. I also found the pictures used in the book to be

incredibly unique and captivating. The background of each page was a picture that reflected the events of the nursery rhyme, but the characters and settings of the picture were made out of simple objects. For example, for a nursery rhyme beginning, "Elsie Marley had grown so fine...," Elsie, her pigs, and the grass outside of her house were all made from cloth (it almost looks like wool). The presentation of these characters as these cloth figures make them almost look like puppets, making the nursery rhymes even more of an imaginative experience for children. I believe that the utilization of these materials expresses the texts in the best way possible and encourages children to use their imaginations to make the nursery rhymes come to life.

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