This takes the nursery rhyme "Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John...." as its inspiration and presents a poem with the same pattern for each of the narrator's many other children. Each poem is illustrated with a full page multicolored woodcut print. My copy of this book is a bit old and I wonder if a newer copy would be even more vibrant. I can see using this as a tie-in with a Mother Goose unit, or as a poetry writing activity in which children try to imitate the form used here.