by Helen Oxenbury · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781405207867
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«The Nursery Collection» is Helen Oxenbury's illustrated collection of nursery rhymes and stories, published by Egmont Books in hardback (96 pages).
This book brings together more than twenty-five nursery rhymes and stories from oral tradition, with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury. Among the tales are «Goldilocks and the Three Bears», «The Elves and the Shoemaker» and «Little Red Riding Hood», along with lullabies and verses for early readers.
Text in English. The work was originally published in 1985; this edition is from 2003.
Recommended for early readers and for reading aloud to young children.
Helen Gillian Oxenbury is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in north London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up four times. For the 50th anniversary of that Medal (1955–2005) her 1999 illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was named one of the top ten winning works.
