Here Rego has turned to the nursery rhyme as a source for her imagery. It is a genre that perfectly complements her art; full of double meanings, rhymes are written from a child’s perspective but are open to adult interpretation. Twenty-six well-known nursery rhymes are accompanied by a series of etchings which she has executed spontaneously as a child might, drawing directly on the plate without preparatory planning. Following the traditions of earlier artists such as Beatrix Potter, she treats the fantastic realistically, dressing animals in human costume and using dream-like dislocations of scale. These are wonderfully comic and rich illustrations with a hint of the sinister, that turn classic nursery rhymes into colourful stories about folly and delusion, cruelty, convention and sex.

在这本书中，Rego将童谣作为她的意象的来源。这是一种完美衬托她艺术的体裁；儿歌充满了双重含义，它是从孩子的角度写的，但成人可以有多种解读。二十六首**童谣与一系列刻版画搭配。遵循Beatrix Potter等早期艺术家们的传统，她用现实的方式处理幻想题材，为动物们船上人类服装，并使用梦幻般的比例错乱。这些都是非常有趣和丰富多彩的带有一丝邪恶的插图，它们将经典童谣变成了关于愚蠢和幻想、残忍、传统和性的丰富多彩的故事。