"Cherished nursery Rhymes turned on their heads, inside out and all roundabout – fantastic!"
Dada is the movement that started after the first World War as a response to the brutality and inhumanity shown. A group of writers and artists thought nonsense and humour made more sense than pointless war. To this end they ‘played around with’ painting, writing, sculpture etc and actively cut up everyday objects and printed materials to make new art from them. The movement spread quickly around Europe and the world; no-one knows the exact reason why it is called Dada – there are several explanations circulating! Whatever the origins of the name – this collection of treasured and well-known nursey rhymes is most definitely in the Dada tradition.
Words and phrases from the nursery rhymes are variously ‘translated’ into Morse code, Esperanto, Secret codes, spoonerisms, haikus, and many more, creating a madly inventive selection that children will love reading, solving and playing with. All the different forms explored by Scieszka are explained in a detailed section at the end of the book, so that the reader can go away and create their own Dada works!
Similarly, Julia Rothman has based the illustrations on traditional nursery rhyme illustration that is then added to and altered in a suitably Dada-ish way. Full of fun and new ways of looking – a great resource for fun and learning.
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