old mother goose.

Every afternoon Andy, Ava and I snuggle on my bed and read a few pages from this book.  We adore the illustrations.  (Oh to live during the era of little girls wearing fluffy dresses with pinafores, and big-wheeled prams to take little babies for walks in.  Time travel, please be invented.)

We love the nursery rhymes and poems.

And I especially love that when I was a little girl and would have sleepovers with my grandma, we used to snuggle on her bed while she read to me from this very book.  I borrowed it from their library a couple years ago, and am secretly hoping that I can just keep it forever!

 

One of these days I want to scan some of its pages and have them printed for a set of picture frames in the playroom or girls bathroom.  Or maybe photocopy them and modge podge them onto lots of little buckets lined up in a row on a shelf.  Or maybe we will just keep enjoying them in the book (which most truthfully is the most likely scenario.)  But those are a couple ideas for you if you happen across any of these sweetly illustrated books at your local thrift store!  (our book is the 1961 edition of Childcraft Poems of Early Childhood.)

nursery rhymes make for sweet dreams.

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