Little Miss Muffet is bored with her nursery rhymes. So she decided to try all the other nursery rhymes. However she realized she was scared or annoyed of them and didn't want to read them anymore. She returned back to her own in the end.

After becoming tired with her boring little nursery rhyme story, Little Miss Muffet gets off her tuffet and sets off to find something new. She ends up interrupting nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme causing chaos everywhere she steps foot. Tired and frightened, she tiptoes back to her own story, contented that her story is as "boring" as it is.

Characters: Little Miss Muffet and other nursery rhyme characters
Setting: Nursery Rhyme World
Theme: Contentment

Post-reading discussions could include:
gratitude; courage; independence; why we have rules/laws; safety; and contentment.

Little Miss Muffett wants to be in a different nursery rhyme in this book. She tries to be a part of other ones, but does not like them. It truly is a disaster because, in the end she is frightened away by a spider jsut as her rhyme says. It really is a cute book that I think children would enjoy very much. ( )

There's nothing all that subtle in here for the adult, but my son really liked this book where Little Miss Muffet goes looking for a better nursery rhyme to be in. In fact, this time the humor is aimed at the little ones, unlike (I suppose) for instance [b:The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales|407429|The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales|Jon Scieszka|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1359388221s/407429.jpg|1814587] which my 3 year old hated. These are all familiar rhymes and one of the page spreads they are all mixed up, something my kid really liked and lingered over trying to sort out the mess ...

My son would have rated the book higher, it is truly cute, but in fact he liked it so much that he was having me read it night after night, something which started to wear me, because like I said it's not really that subtle. ( )

What do you think could happen if a nursery rhyme character decided to make a change? Well, in The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster, the keyword being disaster, Little Miss Muffet causes a serious ruckus. You see, one day Little Miss Muffet decided she wanted to visit some of the other nursery rhymes on the other pages. The Grand Old Duke of York had too much marching going on. On the next page, Little Miss Muffet didn't care much for broken crowns when she stumbled across Jack and Jill. This goes on and on as Little Miss Muffet encounters Three Blind Mice, Johnny Flynn and Tommy Stout and The Cat and the Fiddle. But it was when she met the Dish and the Spoon that all the ruckus begins.

David Conway takes kids on a journey through some of the favorite and most recognizable nursery rhymes. Bigger than life characters created in fun colorful drawings are silly. There are lots of funny things going on in every part of the page. Kids will love the challenges and could perhaps create their own outcome of this hilarious tale. ( )