Mother Goose

Old Mother Goose takes to the air on a very fine gander—and soon a mouse is racing up a clock, blackbirds are singing from a pie, and Jack is leaping over a candlestick. What will rhyme into view next?

In this lively gathering of nursery rhymes and songs, Eulalie Osgood Grover brings together familiar faces and wonderfully odd turns: Little Bo-Peep searches for her sheep, Simple Simon meets a pieman, and a sleepy child is watched over by Wee Willie Winkie. Some verses invite a laugh, some a gentle song, and some leave a little shiver beneath their bouncing rhythms. From a lost shoe to a baby’s rocking cradle, each rhyme opens a tiny scene—and the next may be stranger still. Which old song will stay with you after the last line?

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