Nursery rhymes for modern times - a collection of funny and thought-provoking popular nursery rhymes and poems cleverly reworked by award-winning author Jeanne Willis.

Nursery rhymes for modern times - a collection of funny and thought-provoking popular nursery rhymes and poems cleverly reworked by award-winning author Jeanne Willis.


Praise for What Are Little Girls Made Of?:


"Proving that girls can be the heroes of any tale" - The Bookseller


"Ingenious and empowering, these are a must-read for girls and boys" - The Scotsman


Think you know your favourite classic nursery rhymes? Read this picture book and think again! In this witty reworking of popular nursery rhymes, Little Boy Blue understands it's OK to cry, Wee Willie Winkie knows kindness and wisdom are more important than how big you are, and that boys, and girls, are made of magic, moonbeams, hopes and dreams. With the winning combination of Jeanne Willis's brilliantly funny poems and charming, witty illustrations from Isabelle Follath, these nursery rhymes prove that boys can be anything they want to be.


Includes revamped classic nursery rhymes such as:
Little Boy Blue
What Are Little Boys Made of?
Wee Willie Winkie
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. . . and so many more!

This remixed nursery rhyme collection is the perfect gift book for any child (or adult!), to read aloud or enjoy alone.

Details

ISBN13: 9781805135968
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 32
Edition:
Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 21.5(H)x16.8(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Jeanne Willis (Author)
Jeanne Willis wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).

She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.

Isabelle Follath (Illustrator)
Isabelle Follath is a freelance illustrator living in Zurich, Switzerland with her husband and daughter, where she creates pictures for books and many other things. She loves drawing all sorts of characters, mixing colours and drinking an alarming amount of coffee. When she is not illustrating you can find her searching for the perfect vintage nib or trying rearrange her watercolours of which she has far too many.

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