The surface tale of a favorite baby-sitter putting his young charges to bed is the setting for sharing a litany of old classic childhood rhymes.  Every time Skinny Doug shares one of the old classics, the children shout for him to say it again, but he always delays until some other time, offering instead that, “I’ll tell you another I heard from my mother:”  and so the children hear of bed bugs that bite, the old man who went to bed and bumped his head, the piggies who went to market, and a handful of other old classics.  The simple cartoon-like illustrations insert the children and their sitter into the heart of each of the old rhymes.  A great way to share some old classics.