This is a lovely illustrated book whose pictures look aged and have a crackle finish.  It is a book meant to be read one-on-one, with an adult and a child, or a child alone.  It is a very old-fashioned book and relies on prior knowledge of Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes.  Although I am fairly knowledgeable of these rhymes, there were still some that had me stumped.  The object is to introduce colors via nursery rhymes, but it seems that it is missing the boat.  Kids are supposed to identify what the rhymes are through the clues and the illustrations, but it appears to be all mixed up.  The nursery rhymes aren’t complete, the visual clues are incomplete, and the idea of teaching color through them is misleading.  The color words are in bold-face type but much of the picture doesn’t have much of the color mentioned in it.  There must be a better way:  either do a great hide-and-seek nursery rhyme book, a regular nursery rhyme book, or a color book, but don’t try all three together.  It just isn’t a very good recipe.  Kids won’t get it.