Amy Allen (2)

I was so looking forward to this book, since I usually enjoy thematically reworked nursery rhymes for modern audiences, but I was incredibly disappointed. The author relies far too much on half-rhymes, which often causes the entire metre of the poem to go awry and for the read/speaker to lose the original melody/rhythm. In some cases it was blatantly obvious that the theme of the song did not match well with the format and that the priority was given to cramming in as much glamourous name dropping as possible rather than recreating a well written rhyme. The only saving grace that made this book at all palatable was the wonderful watercolour illustrations. They are whimsically reminiscent of some of the great fashion illustrators, so as long as we focus on the pictures and not the words we can keep this book around.… (mere)