"Gr 4 Up-Dark humor buffs or those who giggle at the gross will be roaring over Sierra's wonderfully crude and macabre take on 25 familiar nursery rhymes. Tamer ones like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Slug" may be shared with the younger set, but many, like "Cannibal Horner," need more maturity for full appreciation. Each rhyme is a winner ("Jack Sprat/Ate some fat/And drank some gasoline./He lit his pipe/And in one swipe/Invented Lean Cuisine"), made even more hilarious through illustration. Davis employs acrylics and colored pencil on watercolor paper to construct toothy cartoon characters that include a mad-scientist-eyed Mother Goose typing away on her laptop computer, a green cannibal "Eating a people potpie," and Addams Family-type characters. Your problem with this book will be keeping it available to students since teachers may hoard it for themselves."--Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA, School Library Journal.