What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Jeanne Willis reworks familiar nursery rhymes to give girls and women independence, competence, and authority. In these versions, Georgie Porgie is confronted instead of being excused, Little Bo-Peep directs her sheep, and a woman doctor mends Humpty Dumpty. Isabelle Follath’s illustrations accompany the collection. By changing the roles within traditional rhymes, the book asks readers to reconsider the expectations those verses have assigned to girls and women.