Miss Mary Mack and Other Children's Street Rhymes

Just like I remember! The songs came flooding back to me like it was yesterday. That said, they aren't exactly polite and acceptable lyrically by today's standards. They contain many words that in our house we refer to as "unkind" words and phrases about breaking your mothers back etc that you don't really hear anymore and sound truly harsh on the ears nowadays. Still, my sweet 7 year old loves this book and thinks it is a hilarious relic of her Mommy's generation!

I have two 4 yr old girls with me a lot of the time. Now I can play the games that they are just finding out how to play. It also helps teach music tempo when we smack our hands and thighs. We laugh a lot with these words and actions.

This book brings me back to my childhood with all the handclap games and songs that go along. My daughter and her friends love using the book to learn new games. The one area I dislike would be the "comebacks" section where they teach kids how to make fun of each other. It is meant to be playful so older kids understand it but younger kids might not get it. Overall, happy with the purchase as we get a lot of use out of it.

I had this book as a kid and totally remember all of these games. So happy to pass down all these to my girls and see them treaching their friends. I couldn't believe all the girls in my neighborhood had never played hand clapping games

When I saw this book I just had to get it, the memories I had just thumbing thru were fantastic. I have 2 girls who love the clapping games and now I can relive some memories by playing it with them.

Bought this for my 7 year old nieces and they loved it. It also brought back some good memories of when I was younger

I bought this for a 9-year-old, but I won't be giving it to her. I had nice memories of jumping rope to rhymes, hand clapping rhymes etc., as a kid, but they weren't mean or inappropriate like a good many of these. Such a shame. I see rhymes about whiskey, wine, tobacco, murder, lots of rhymes about kissing, one about marrying a millionaire and I won't cry if he dies, I'll marry another guy. Then there's "Did you ever think when the hearse comes by, that you may be the next to die?" and all the taunting rhymes, eg "God made you, but we all make mistakes."

My daughter is having a lot of fun with this book, and the Anna Banana book. There are a lot of rhymes I had never even heard before.