You Read to Me, I'll Read to You You Read to Me, I'll Read to You You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together is the third book in the "You Read to Me, I'll Read to You" series. It is written by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Michael Emberley. The book is retellings of nursery rhymes. It has retellings such as Humpty Dumpty chatting with his doctor and Little Miss Muffet explaining 'curds and whey' to the spider. Other rhymes include "Old Mother Hubbard", "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater", "Simple Simon", and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". It was reviewed
Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Inspector with the Reading, Berkshire "Nursery Crimes Division", with his assistant Sergeant Mary Mary (another nursery rhyme character). Spratt and Mary were originally introduced into the alternate Fforde universe in the Thursday Next novel "The Well of Lost Plots" (2003) before taking over their own "Nursery Crimes" series: Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He was named after the character from the English nursery rhyme. As revealed in "The Big Over Easy", for example, he hates eating fat, and was once married to a