I thought this absolutely delightful. But then, I'm a sucker for alternative 'fractured' fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

I love the little dialogues inside the boxes, especially, for sheer humor. Like when the soldiers don't know how to get the horse down: We're so doomed!.../ Oh the humanity. (sob sob)."

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since Humpty Dumpty has already fallen, he has no confidence to climb again. This is a story about Humpty Dumpty retries to climb the wall!

This story teaches children to never give up and to keep on trying. I think that this was a great story it was silly and fun and I can see children really relating and enjoying it.

Nursery rhyme hero Humpty Dumpty experiences some post-traumatic stress in this revisionist take on his classic poem - "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, / Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. / All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again" - refusing to carry on with his climbing hobby after a particularly nasty fall shatters his shell. Becoming something of a couch potato, he ignores his friend Dish (of the famous Dish and Spoon duo), and only leaves his house when a spider (being done with Miss Muffet for the time being) comes along and frightens him into running outdoors. Making his way toward the hills, Humpty discovers that one of the King's Horses has gotten stuck on a cliff, and suddenly finds the courage to climb again, coming to the rescue and proving that he is still the daring egg that everyone had thought him to be...

Chosen as one of our February selections over in The Picture-Book Club to which I belong, where our theme was "Fractured Nursery Rhymes," Humpty Dumpty Climbs Again is an entertaining examination of what happens after our egg hero takes his famous fall. I appreciated the way Dave Horowitz worked other nursery rhyme characters into his tale, and thought the cartoon-style artwork was well suited to the story, accentuating the humor in the text. I'll be curious to see how this compares to another revisionist take on Humpty's story, Jeanie Franz Ransom's What Really Happened to Humpty?: From the Files of a Hard-Boiled Detective, which was also chosen as a selection for February. ( )

This is a modern take on the classic "Humpty Dumpty" rhyme. This story follows Humpty Dumpty after his "great fall" and tells of how he conquered his fear of falling again.

This story is so cute and very funny. It is a story that my class loves to hear over and over again.

I would use this story when talking about emotions and I would have my kids tell some of their own fears and have them draw their own picture of ways they could conquer them.