The Complete Mother Goose

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Publisher: International Collectors Library
Binding: Tree of Life Binding
Pages: 229
Illustrations by: Ethel Franklin Betts
Publish Date: 1987
Genre: Poetry
Country: United States

Synopsis: "Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. As a character, she appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme." -Wikipedia

 A sample of nursery rhymes:
"Baa, baa, black Sheep"
"Hey, diddle, diddle"
"Hickory dickory dock"
"Humpty Dumpty"
"Jack and Jill"
"Jack, be nimble"
"Little Bo-Peep"
"Little Boy Blue"
"Little Miss Muffet"
"London Bridge is falling down"
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary"
"Old King Cole"
"Old Mother Hubbard"
"Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"
"Rain, Rain, go away"
"Rock-a-bye, Baby"
"Three blind Mice"
"Twinkle, twinkle, little Star"
"Yankee Doodle"

...plus many more!

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