Presents fifty traditional nursery rhymes in comic book format, with illustrations by well-known cartoonists.

"With an introduction by Leonard S. Marcus!"--Cover. "50 timeless rhymes from 50 celebrated cartoonists!"--Cover.

Introduction / Leonard S. Marcus -- The donkey / Patrick McDonnell -- Three little kittens / Nick Bruel -- Hickory, dickory, dock / Stephanie Yue -- Sing a song of sixpence / Lilli Carré-- If all the seas were one sea / Rebecca Dart -- Girls and boys, come out and play / Jules Feiffer -- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe / Lucy Knisley -- Cindereller / Vanessa Davis -- The queen of hearts / Eleanor Davis -- Hey, diddle diddle / Nick Abadzis -- There was an old woman tossed up in a basket / Richard Thompson -- Jack be nimble / James Sturn -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Craig Thompson -- The itsy bitsy spider / Gahan Wilson -- Baa-baa black sheep / Drew Weing -- Hector protector / Stan Sakai -- Pop! goes the weasel / Scott Campbell -- Three blind mice / Richard Sala -- There was a crooked man / Roz Chast -- Georgie Porgie / Raina Telgemeier -- Solomon Grundy -- Rock-a-bye baby / Tao Nyeu -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee / Mathew Forsythe -- Thiw little piggy / Cyril Pedrosa -- Mary had a little lamb / Sara Varon -- "Croak," said the toad / Laura Park -- Yon Yonson / Marc Rosenthal -- Little Bo Peep / Jen Wang -- Hot cross buns / Old Mother Hubbard / Jordan Crane -- Jack and Jill / Jaime Hernandez -- I had a little nut tree / Lark Pien -- For want of a nail / George O'Connor -- One, two, buckle my shoe / Dave Roman -- Pussycat, pussycat, whre have yo been? / Ben Hatke -- The grand Duke of York / Kate Beaton -- Little Boy Blue / Bob Flynn -- As I was going to St. Ives / Theo Ellsworth -- The north wind doth blow / Alexis Frederick-Fost -- London bridge is falling down / David Macaulay -- Rub-a-dub-dub / Tony Millionaire -- Little Miss Muffet / Mark Martin -- Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater / Eric Orchard -- Old King Cole / JP Coovert -- The lion and the unicorn / Aaron Renier -- There was a little girl / Vera Bosgol -- Humpty Dumpty / Gilbert Hernandez -- Pat-a-cke / Gene Luen Yang -- Hush, little baby / Mo Oh -- Wee Willie Winkle / Mark Siegel -- Editor's note / Chris Duffy -- Contributors.