Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes I

US Games Systems, Inc.

USGS has produced a huge collection of simple educational decks of cards like this, "Popular Card Games for Fun and Learning" as they're called on the advertisement card in this deck. From authors to Presidents to Dinosaurs, they do cover a lot of ground. This one is, as you can see from the title, about nursery rhymes. It contains thirteen rhymes broken down into four lines, yielding the required fifty-two cards. The deck is designed to be used as a Go Fish style matching game, where the design it to unite the poems together, but I think they made it a little too easy, since each card contains the entire poem, with one line italicised to show that it's the line for this card.

The artwork is the product of Virginijus Poshkus, who is responsible for a good number of USGS's other decks. The images are all predictable, but competently rendered. They just look like they were drawn for children by an adult who has forgotten being a child. They're entirely too simplistic for any child who could actually read the cards. The deck was awarded the 1993 "Gold Award/Parent's Choice."

Artwork copyright 1992, U.S. Games Systems.