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Modern-day urban settings popping with color, with real live children acting out the parts, give these rhymes a new twist. The compositions are digitally collaged yet natural-looking. The featured children form a multiethnic group, which immediately moves the rhymes from their olde English roots into the present day. Truly a Mother Goose for children growing up in a new century.