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Lädt ... The Space Child's Mother Goose (1958)von Frederick Winsor
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. If you love nursery rhymes and science, this volume will make your chuckle a few times. While most rhymes appear in English, several languages make appearances in one poem each. My LibraryThing 2020 Secret Santa chose a book I'm certain to revisit a few times. ( ) Years ago, I came across the "Probable Possible, My Black Hen" rhyme and have been on the lookout for this book ever since. I'm happy to report the rest of the book is just as delightful. The reworked nursery rhymes have a wonderful cool-jazz kind of feel to them: Resistor, transistor, condensers in pairs, Battery, platter, record me some airs; Squeaker and squawker and woofer times pi, And Baby shall have his own private Hi-Fi. One day in the 1950s a retired architect started combining a lifetime of light verse with modern science fiction. The resulting rhymes and ditties were not only silly, they were also entirely based on philosophy and science, this being mainly Einsteinian and quantum physics and mathematics. The author himself, alas, did not make it through the year in which this book was published but the book remained a cult classic into the 21st century. The illustrator carried the torch for the next 50 years ensuring that the book would not be forgotten. She was, in fact, responsible for much of the love and craft that had gone into it so it is less an intellectual exercise and more a complete work of art. Mother Goose is the sort of book that I love to give as a gift because my friends are just the sort of people who can appreciate the absurdity and get the references. This book is whimsy elevated to absolute genius. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Only a few years ago (1950s) we walked on solid earth. Today we whirl through space. Space is big. It is not cozy. But with these verses and drawings... cheerfulness breaks in. Suddenly, science seems merry. And space begins, with the rhyme on page 1, to feel a little more like home. A witty collection of 1950's space age poetry accompanied by clever black and white line drawings by Marian Parry. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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