My newest favoritist illustrator, Mr. Gris Grimly (I'm assuming "Mr.",...) has two volumes of morbid retellings of classic nursery rhymes of which this is the first...perhaps some of the parody is obvious but it is fun and wicked and reminds you of the verse of Mr. Gorey...the illustrations continue to be fantastic making me think that Mr. Grimly is the bastard son of Tim Burton, Chas Addams and Gerald Scarfe...