(4) K-3 Illustrated by Angela Matteson. This poetry book, a collaborative "reinvention" of fourteen Mother Goose nursery rhymes, focuses on alternative points of view. For example, there are two poems for "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe": one from the perspective of the shoe and the other from that of the old woman's children. While pleasingly illustrated with acrylic and colored pencil on wood board, the interpretations ultimately prove uneven as a whole.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty