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Hush, Little Baby
By Pinkney, Brian
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06055-993-9 978-0-06055-994-6
- Publisher
- Amistad Greenwillow
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2006
PreS This version of a favorite lullaby features a spinning top (in place of a billy goat); a dog named Pearl (rather than a cart and bull); and a fire truck returning the baby girl to the house where -Mama -s gonna sing you a lullaby. - Pinkney -s colored-ink paintings show an early 1900s African-American father and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
"If that looking glass should drop, / Papa's gonna buy you a spinning top." Diverging from the familiar folk lullaby, Pinkney downplays the mishaps in the original, replaces the horse and cart with a fire truck, and brings in Mama—whose departure in the first spread occasions the insecure fee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
