We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures

maurice sendak

We are all in the dumps
For diamonds are trumps
The kittens are gone to St. Paul's!
The baby is bit
The moon's in a fit
And the houses are built
Without walls

Jack and Guy
Went out in the Rye
And they found a little boy
With one black eye
Come says Jack let's knock
Him on the head
No says Guy
Let's buy him some bread
You buy one loaf
And I'll buy two
And we'll bring him up
As other folk do

Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, Ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak.

Genres picture bookschildrensfictionpoetryfantasyartpoliticshorrorclassicsmiddle grade

56 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1993

This edition

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1993 by Michael di Capua Books
ISBN: 9780062050144
ASIN: 0062050141
Language: English

About the author

maurice sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California is named in his honor.

Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. He spent much of the 1950s working as an artist for children's books, before beginning to write his own stories.