Nursery Rugs, Baby Room Rugs, Baby Nursery Rugs - New Children's Rugs

This volume from the "Nature Book" series presents facts about sharks for young readers. Each short chapter (1 to 2 pages of text) has a simple, conversational title¾Meet the Shark!, What Do Sharks Look Like?, Are There Different Kinds of Sharks? Other chapters discuss whether sharks are dangerous, how sharks hunt, baby sharks, the ecological role of sharks, human threats to sharks and shark research. Each two-page spread has one page of text accompanied by a full-page, colorful photograph. The wide...

Picture this: Edward Gorey, Tim Burton and the Brothers Grimm get together over snifters of absinthe to collaborate on a children's nursery book. The result might look something like author Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes, a slim, sly compendium of "charmless tales" for kiddies who would have rather listened to Marilyn Manson than Mozart in the womb. Anyone who knows children knows their squeals of delight at wickedness and naughtiness, all in fun, as a way of reinforcing our society's taboos.