The Charles Addams Mother Goose

Charles Addams. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, $19.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84874-2

Fans of the Addams Family creator and New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams are sure to savor the deliciously twisted take on nursery rhymes in The Charles Addams Mother Goose. First issued in 1967, the work trumps tradition, spicing up the original verse with offbeat illustrations. For ""Rain, Rain, go away,/ Come again another day"" Addams imagines a flood of apocalyptic proportions taking over Manhattan, leaving a small family adrift on a rooftop and the Statue of Liberty submerged. A scrapbook contains vintage cover art and family photos.

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