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    The Real Mother Goose
    The Real Mother Goose
    The Real Mother Goose
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    The Real Mother Goose

    By Blanche Fisher Wright

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    The identity of Mother Goose may remain a mystery, but the timeless appeal of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes associated with this cherished imaginary author has lasted for generations of young readers. This collection includes more than three hundred of Mother Goose's best-known and best-loved nursery rhymes for children. Here, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall, Jack and Jill go up the hill, and the dish runs away with the spoon. Peter Piper picks a peck of pickled peppers, little Miss Muffet sits on a tuffet, and Mother Goose herself rides through the air on a very fine gander. Also included are favorites such as "Three Blind Mice," "Little Bo-Peep," "Hot Cross-Buns," and "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." This collection, taken from the 1916 copyright edition, features charming full-color illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512466720

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    • 4/5
      The Real Mother Goose may not include my favorite kids’ rhyme to teach college freshmen. Many memorize it at first hearing:“Little Robin Redbreast Sitting on a pole—Niddle noddle went his headAnd poop went his hole.”That was printed in early Mother Goose books in England, but maybe suppressed (like Sir John Suckling’s “Love is the fart / Of every heart,” 1646) until unearthed in the last few decades.Speaking of England, these have a distinctly British accent, like "Little Robin Redbreast": that's the British bird, very small, while the American Robin is good-sized for a songbird. And "Itsy, bitsy spider went up the garden spout": it's the outdoor yard spout--the British word for "yard" is "garden." And there are more, yet we consider them American nursery rhymes.I wonder how many kids learn Mother Goose now, maybe fewer than when I read ‘em to my kids four decades ago, though of course I’d learned dozens as a kid, and maybe now many learn from parents who also learned by hearing, not reading. Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, and especially, “Rain, rain, go awayCome again some other day,Little Johnny wants to play.”I say this in the rainy aftermath of Hurricane Michael on our south New England coast. Lots about shepherd kids and their sheep, some about pigs (and "This little piggy"), and of course much about field and hills,“Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.”Maybe this one needs revision; it suggests females can not avoid males’ calamities. I’m quite sure as a kid my sense of Jack’s broken crown was in fact a diadem, not a brain hemorrhage. Besides rural geography, there’s many food references, like“Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,Baker’s man.Bake me a cake As fast as you can.Pat it, and prick it,And mark it with T.Put it in the oven For Tommy and me.”But the most comprehensive dietary assessment, “Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean;And so, betwixt them both,They licked the platter clean.” Debates about the health of fat or meat go back at least to the Renaissance, and Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy— which dicusses the effect of meat on depression (the Renaissance word for it, in the title).Some are satires on cuteness, like “There was a little girl/ Who had a little curl,/ Right in the middle of her forehead./ When she was good, /She was very, very good;/ But when she was bad, she was horrid.” Longfellow wrote that, and the little curly girl strikes up an upstairs fit her mom mistakes for the boys’ fighting.Then there's the astronomical ones, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star...like a diamond in the sky." Romeo tells us Juliet's eyes would be brighter than the fairest stars. But we are still on the nursery level about stars, "How I wonder what you are, / Up above the world so high...." And the meteorological ones, "Itsy, bitsy spider/ Went up the garden spout./ Down came the rain and/ Washed the spider out.// Out came the sun and/ Dried up all the rain./ The itsy, bitsy spider / Climbed up the spout again."Many of the rhymes urge kids into athletic or physical skills, “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,/ Jack jump over the Candle-stick.” Wonder what kids make of this if they’ve never seen a candlestick—or, implied in the verse, a candle in it, unless it’s a very tall candle-holder, which the past did feature.
    • 5/5
      Great classic nursery rhymes for children of all ages. This book included all traditional tale and nursery rhymes your grandparents remember. I have had this book my entire life and will be happy to share it with my own children one day. I recommend this book to everyone with children!
    • 5/5
      This quintessential collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, both well-known and obscure, is profusely illustrated. May be confusing for younger readers as the connection between text and illustrations is not always clear and not all of the rhymes have illustrations. Nonetheless the sheer volume of rhymes and pictures should satisfy readers of all ages. Charming ink and watercolor illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright are reminiscent of the Art Deco movement. Best suited for individual or pair perusal as the pages are crowded, and some illustrations are small.
    • 5/5
      This is the same Mother Goose I had as a child in the late 40s and early 50s. The illustrations are classic and beautiful. I can say many of the rhymes by heart. They helped develop a love for words. Many of the rhymes have historical significance.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book full of Mother Goose nursery rhymes! The illustrations in this book are fabulous. Each illustration goes along with the rhyme very well. This book is full of classic nursery rhymes that are wonderful to read to a child. This book is also great to give to a child who is learning to read. I recommend this book for all children, especially those who love nursey rhymes!
    • 3/5
      This one frustrates me a bit because I loved it when I was a kid and our nursery rhymes are indeed an important part of my heritage but it perplexes Emmett because it's so chock-full of nursery rhymes that only like every fourth or fifth one gets an illustration, and sometimes it's a really perfunctory one like a generically oldtimey woman in a bonnet and kirtle sitting by a tree and she could be Little Bo Peep or the old lady who swallowed a fly or the Queen of Hearts missing her tarts or whatever really. He prefers the (by most measures inferior) Sing a Song of Sixpence book because the images help him bootstrap into the content. So there is treasure hid away in these pages, but my feelings about reading it with actual kids are nevertheless mixed. (I'm also curious about the provenance and specific meaning of the "real,' since you can't like own a nursery rhyme man. it reeks of insecurity-driven, belligerent self-important self-assertion, like the Real IRA or twitter accounts on the template of @darealbubbasparxxx or @shialebeoufREAL)
    • 5/5
      Summary: This book has a multitude of stories, poems and tales. Classic tales: jack be nimble, we willie winkie, old woman in a shoe etc...The pictures in the book are beautifully done with extreme attention to children. Personal: this book has been handed down from my brother-in-law, to my children. We often refer to this book when we have classroom assignments that need a rhyme or a tale. I try to read this book to my children instead of some of the "newer" ones they enjoy, because of the history and how much i loved them as a child.Extension ideas: 1.) during the lesson on rhyme words, I would read this book aloud and have the children point out (verbally) the rhyme in the story. 2. I would group the children in 3's and have them come up with their own rhyming words , using their spelling words. They could draw pictures to go along with the rhyming words they had found.
    • 5/5
      Great collection of rhymes to use for a poetry unit.
    • 4/5
      I remember having a hardback version of this book growing up. I think my sister has it now (for my niece). I've been wanting to revisit it for some time, so when it showed up in my Little Free Library, I grabbed it for another read-through.Here are all the classic Mother Goose rhymes and riddles, some that have become so common we know them by heart, others that aren't as well known; but all worth a read.I feel like every home should have a copy of this book.
    • 5/5
      A gigantic compilation of Mother Goose rhymes with beautiful illustrations. With over 200 different rhymes and stories, this book can never get old!
    • 5/5
      Summary: When people think of Mother Goose books, this is the tome they think of! With the rich color prints and black and white drawings throughout the poetry, this is one of the first books for children ever purchased by families. The cover is a material covered in a color print of a witch riding a large goose carrying a baby in her basket. Some of the poems are not politically correct for 2008 but most still have their charm and certainally all have their place in history. Some poems and sing-song chants started to warn children or to scare them into being good. This collection of poems is something most children are exposed to and I would consider to be a staple of all libraries.Review:The book from 1916 belongs to my collection and I was drawn to it by it's age and it's wonderful pictures. The artist did an amazing job of using many colors to draw in small children and to visually tell the story. Many of the poems I had never heard as a child and I found interesting as an adult. It is not a surprise to me that this book has been printed over and over and is still being read to children.
    • 4/5
      This Mother Goose collection contains over 300 verses and includes Wright's 1916 illustrations. Certainly, the overwhelming number of rhymes makes this a book for adults and children to thumb through and find their favorite verses or intriguing pictures. For parents concerned about the cultural literacy of the children, this book can quell those fears as virtually any verse any one can think of is included. Since there are so many verses, though, not everyone has an illustration, meaning many of them may be lost on young readers. On the other hand, many of the illustrations are interesting. There are many pictures with children. The watercolor and ink make the pictures clear and colorful. Some have interesting detail, like Little Boy Blue with four different toys. This is appropriate for ages 3 to 6.
    • 3/5
      This classic book gives everyone the chance to read the children's classic nursery rimes that you read as a child. It is also interesting to have children read some of these rimes that they may have never even heard before. The pictures are set to be very old and the colors are interesting to go along with the four to five poems on each page. A fun read to have for younger children at home or at the Kindergarten level.
    • 5/5
      I grew up reading and hearing these nursery rhymes. There is something magical and very comfortable about the words.
    • 5/5
      This compellation of classic nursery rhymes is a great way to get younger children into reading.
    • 4/5
       This book is so simple with traditional rhymes, riddles, songs, poetry and stories. Its a great book to teach children about rhymes and poetry.
    • 3/5
      First sentence: Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep. And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, and bring their tails behind them.Premise/plot: This Mother Goose collection was originally published in 1916. Its cover (and interior illustrations) are recognizable by generations. There are hundreds of poems/verses. My thoughts: I enjoyed reading The Real Mother Goose. While I was familiar with some of the Mother Goose rhymes, there were so many that were new to me. The rhymes do vary in quality and relevance. (I'm not sure little ones need to be familiar with each and every poem in this collection in order to "know" their Mother Goose properly). Here are a few of my favorites: The Tarts The Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts, He stole the tarts, And took them clean away. The King of Hearts Called for the tarts, And beat the Knave full sore; The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more. (107) Sing a Song of Sixpence Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie! When the pie was opened The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; When down came a blackbird And snapped off her nose. (62) The Bunch of Blue Ribbons Oh, dear what can the matter be? Oh, dear what can the matter be? Oh, dear what can the matter be? Johnny's so long at the fair. He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons, He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons, He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons, To tie up my bonny brown hair. (127)Do you have a favorite Mother Goose rhyme?

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    The Real Mother Goose - Blanche Fisher Wright

    This collection includes more than three hundred of Mother Goose’s best-known and best-loved nursery rhymes for children, taken from the 1916 copyright edition. The text is in the public domain. The text has been put into a new design to make this book appealing and easier to read in both digital and paperback formats. This book also features original illustrations drawn by Blanche Fisher Wright, which were published in the 1916 edition. The eBook contains a hyperlinked Table of Contents for navigation. The First Avenue Classics™ version is unabridged and has been proofed for formatting errors. Errors and alternate spellings found in the original book have not been changed. When necessary, artwork was modified to fit the format of this edition.

    Copyright © 2017 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

    All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

    First Avenue Editions

    A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

    241 First Avenue North

    Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

    For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.

    In fixed layout formats of this book, the main body text is set in Janson Text LT Std 55 Roman 11/15.

    Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Names: Wright, Blanche Fisher, illustrator.

    Title: The real Mother Goose / illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.

    Other titles: Mother Goose.

    Description: Minneapolis : First Avenue Classics, [2017]

    Identifiers: LCCN 2016006056 (print) | LCCN 2016024487 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512426021 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512426038 (eb pdf)

    Subjects: LCSH: Nursery rhymes. | Children’s poetry. | CYAC: Nursery rhymes.

    Classification: LCC PZ8.3 .M85 2017 (print) | LCC PZ8.3 (ebook) | DDC 398.8 [E] —dc23

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016006056

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    1-41367-23311-8/1/2016

    9781512466720 ePub

    9781512466737 ePub

    9781512466744 mobi

    Table of Contents

    Little Bo-Peep

    Little Boy Blue

    Rain

    The Clock

    Winter

    Fingers and Toes

    A Seasonable Song

    Dame Trot and Her Cat

    Three Children on the Ice

    Cross Patch

    The Old Woman under a Hill

    Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee

    Oh, Dear!

    Old Mother Goose

    Little Jumping Joan

    Pat-A-Cake

    Money and the Mare

    Robin Redbreast

    A Melancholy Song

    Jack

    Going to St. Ives

    Thirty Days Hath September

    Baby Dolly

    Bees

    Come out to Play

    If Wishes Were Horses

    A Man and a Maid

    To Market

    Old Chairs to Mend

    Robin and Richard

    Here Goes My Lord

    The Clever Hen

    Two Birds

    Leg over Leg

    Lucy Locket

    When Jenny Wren Was Young

    Solomon Grundy

    Barber

    The Flying Pig

    Hush-A-Bye

    Burnie Bee

    Three Wise Men of Gotham

    The Hunter of Reigate

    Little Polly Flinders

    Ride Away, Ride Away

    Pippen Hill

    The Winds

    Pussy-Cat and Queen

    Christmas

    Clap Handies

    Elizabeth

    Just like Me

    Play Days

    Heigh-Ho, the Carrion Crow

    A Needle and Thread

    Banbury Cross

    For Every Evil

    The Man in Our Town

    Abc

    Georgy Porgy

    Cushy Cow

    Wee Willie Winkie

    About the Bush

    See-Saw

    John Smith

    Robin-A-Bobbin

    Three Blind Mice

    Simple Simon

    Five Toes

    Jerry Hall

    A Little Man

    Doctor Foster

    Lengthening Days

    Diddle Diddle Dumpling

    The Mist

    The Black Hen

    A Candle

    Miss Muffet

    Curly-Locks

    Humpty Dumpty

    One, Two, Three

    The Dove and the Wren

    Master I Have

    Pins

    Shall We Go A-Shearing?

    Goosey, Goosey, Gander

    Old Mother Hubbard

    The Cock and the Hen

    Blue Bell Boy

    Why May Not I Love Johnny?

    Jack Jelf

    Jack Sprat

    Daffodils

    Hush-A-Bye

    Hush-A-Bye

    The Girl in the Lane

    Nancy Dawson

    Handy Pandy

    Jack and Jill

    The Alphabet

    Dance to Your Daddie

    Rain

    One Misty Moisty Morning

    Robin Hood and Little John

    The Old Woman from France

    The Robins

    The Old Man

    Teeth And Gums

    T’other Little Tune

    My Kitten

    A Plum Pudding

    If All the Seas Were One Sea

    Pancake Day

    Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, Mouth, and Chin

    A Sure Test

    Lock and Key

    The Lion and the Unicorn

    The Merchants of London

    I Had a Little Husband

    To Babylon

    I’ll Tell You a Story

    A Strange Old Woman

    Sleep, Baby, Sleep

    Cry, Baby

    Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

    Little Fred

    Doctor Fell

    A Counting-Out Rhyme

    The Cat And the Fiddle

    Jack and His Fiddle

    Buttons

    Hot Boiled Beans

    Little Pussy

    Sing a Song of Sixpence

    Tommy Tittlemouse

    The Derby Ram

    The Hobby-Horse

    The Mulberry Bush

    Young Lambs to Sell

    Boy and the Sparrow

    Old Woman, Old Woman

    Two Pigeons

    The First of May

    Sulky Sue

    The House that Jack Built

    Saturday, Sunday

    Little Jenny Wren

    The Old Woman and the Pedlar

    Bobby Snooks

    The Little Moppet

    Walnut

    I Saw a Ship A-Sailing

    The Man in the Moon

    One, He Loves

    Bat, Bat

    Hark! Hark!

    The Hart

    My Love

    The Man of Bombay

    A Sieve

    Poor Old Robinson Crusoe!

    A Difficult Rhyme

    My Maid Mary

    Pretty John Watts

    I Love Sixpence

    Good Advice

    Comical Folk

    Tommy Snooks

    Bye, Baby Bunting

    Cock-Crow

    Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son

    The Blacksmith

    The Three Sons

    Two Gray Kits

    One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

    Pairs or Pears

    Cock-A-Doodle-Do!

    Belleisle

    Old King Cole

    See, See

    Dapple-Gray

    A Well

    Coffee and Tea

    Pussy-Cat Mew

    Dreams

    The Little Girl with a Curl

    A Cock and Bull Story

    Myself

    For Baby

    Over the Water

    Candle-Saving

    Fears and Tears

    The Kilkenny Cats

    Old Grimes

    The Man Who Had Naught

    A Week of Birthdays

    A Chimney

    Ladybird

    The Tailors and the Snail

    Around the Green Gravel

    Intery, Mintery

    Caesar’s Song

    As I Was Going Along

    Hector Protector

    Billy, Billy

    Rock-A-Bye, Baby

    The Man in the Wilderness

    Little Jack Horner

    The Bird Scarer

    Mary, Mary, Quite

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