Nutshell Library: Alligators all around / Chicken Soup With Rice / One was Johnny / Pierre

My three year old loves them!

A personal favorite. I bought this for my kindergarten age grandchild, hoping she might be able to read some of it herself. Mini-size books fit in her little hands very nicely. Books are also fun to read out loud to a child; good rhymes and silly stories/drawings. Each little book is hardcover with a paper jacket and all of them fit into their little box together to make a nice set.

Maurice Sendak must haves. The "nutshell library" is a classic. Books are hard cover, beautifully made, artwork is vibrant. The small cardboard case that holds them also well constructed. These books, from 1962, are fun, rythmic, and sing-songy. Easy for children to hold. A word of caution. Some modern parents find them too scary. Really, a lion that swallows a child because he didn't seen to care about anything or anyone. To me, it's fun and interesting. I get requests to read this one over and over. If there is any drawback, it is that they are manufactured in China.

This set was much loved by my siblings and me when I was a child (f68) and my grandchildren loved it just as much. Bonus, on Youtube there’s a video of Carol King singing the Chicken Soup with Rice book to an animated cartoon. Warning though, if you play it more than twice, you will not be able to get it out of your head! My personal favorite is Pierre.

This is just as I remembered from my childhood! Quick and easy ordering and it arrived safe and sound!

My wife had these as a kid in the late 1960s or early 1970s. They are very well made and true to the original. Wonderfully done. I bought them just to put in a little display in a bookcase. I would buy them again.

The Nutshell Library is a classic. Inside the small slipcase (ca. 3 x 4 inches) are 4 books written and illustrated by the great Maurice Sendak. My daughter and I loved them in the late 1960s, and I could still remember quite a few lines almost 50 years later. I purchased a copy of the Nutshell Library this year to use with the two 2nd graders with whom I was doing reading practice. These books were "dessert" after they read their assigned books. Both of them loved the books so much that I purchased 2 new copies and gave a copy to each of them at the end of school. I recommend this to every parent and grandparent--you can start reading them to new borns and the books will never grow old. There is something magic about 4 small books held together in a case. I now know all four books by heart, and I have enjoyed reading them as much as my 2 second grade girls. I'm smiling now just thinking about them.

I bought this for a friend of mine. I already have a set and love the tiny books. They're very lovely stories.

Lovely books for 3-6 year kids

Everything was perfect!

We love this designer. They are light small books that I can carry easily in the bag so I can entertain the kids when we go out without carrying heavy books. For the rest use your imagination ... Adoriamo questo disegnatore. Sono libretti piccoli leggeri che stanno nella borsa così posso intrattenere i bimbi in giro senza portare libri pesanti. Il resto poi la nostra fantasia ...

Very cute book. Bought as a gift for a friend's child.

São minilivros infantis de capa dura que vem em um box (caixinha). Pelo que eu entendi são historinhas clássicas americanas que foram publicados originalmente em 1962. Eles tem poucas páginas cada e são ilustrados. O inglês é bem fácil, é infantil mesmo. Lindo para quem é colecionador de edições bonitas. A qualidade é muito boa.