The illustrations are charming and realistic. This was my son's favorite book as a toddler.Mine too! The pictures are wonderful!

I had this book when I was little and still love it. There are poems, stories, and lots of beautiful pictures. If you can find this book, I suggest you buy it.

"Let's eat" is a book I have from when I was little - sort of. I'm trying to order two new copies (it's out of print) for my sister and me, because our old copy has about three tattered pages left - which my daughter makes me read all the time anyway. The pictures are adorable and it's great fun to read.

The text consists of names of children's toys.

This volume goes in and out of print - it is neither Blanche Fisher Wright's Real Mother Goose of my generation, nor the Tomie dePaola or Iona Opie Mother Goose's of my grandson's era; it is the Mother Goose of my son's era. The illustrations are often wonderful but fail because there is no visual dividing line between them e.g. the children going round the mulberry bush fit with the children playing jump rope but to play into butter and beans ... with a bean pot larger than the children is a visually jarring. Even in the black and white pages where there is a clear distinction of one picture per rhyme, the volume of material stuffed on a page gives a cluttered, uninviting feeling.

Why then do I go for 4 stars? The choice of rhymes is very good and the illustrations independently have a marvelous sense of humor that appeals to children. An if a child enjoys Richard Scarry, I doubt that the cluttered effect will me noticed at all.

This was one of my favorite books as a very young child (age 3-4) and I had my mother read it to me frequently. I loved the colorful pictures, yet my mother soon tired of the dull story. However, I remember the story as being exciting and imaginative.