Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes Condition:Very Good In combining those rare qualities

In combining those rare qualities of scholastic precision

This contemporary classic

Of the 169 passengers

The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990

and terrible secrets hide deep within the rocky landscape

Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes Condition:Very Good In combining those rare qualitiesCecily Parsley's "Nursery Rhymes" is a sequel to Beatrix Potter's first rhyme collection, "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes". Like the previous book, it contains material she had produced and collected over a period of many years. The Cecily Parsley sequence of illustrations, for example, was first made into a little booklet twenty five years earlier, in 1897. Cecily Parsley's "Nursery Rhymes" is the last of Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books.