(4) PS Illustrated by Paddy Mounter. "Three tiny pairs of dark glasses / (dropped). / Three little gray tails / (cropped)." Readers must guess which of twenty classic nursery rhymes (in this case, "Three Blind Mice") are introduced by Mitton's clever original riddles. Unfortunately, preschoolers may not be able to guess correctly, and kids old enough to do so probably no longer give a tuffet about nursery rhymes.

Reviewer: Nell Beram