Original Mother Goose (Hardcover)

~ Blanche Fisher Wright (Author) "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep..." (more)
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Product Description

A new deluxe edition of classic Mother Goose comes complete with full-color illustrations of the beloved nursery rhyme characters.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 136 pages
• Publisher: Running Press Kids (August 6, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561381136
• ISBN-13: 978-1561381135
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #141,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Original, July 31, 2000

By A Customer

This book, recognizable with it's checkerboard background in earlier editions, is engaging as a read-aloud book for children far younger than the reccommended 4-8 years. Handy for pre-bedtime use because most poems are short and you can choose to read as many or as few as you have time for. Introduce your child to rhyme and fancy with this must-have staple. (My mom read it to me when I was little, too!)

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Beautiful, Always Classic "Mother Goose"!, June 28, 2004

By	Sheila Chilcote-Collins "Sheila Renee Chilcot... (Collinswood, Van Wert, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I recently purchased this book for my new granddaughter and myself. It is beautifully bound in royal purple cloth with gorgeous endpapers and original front page illustrations by Milo Warner. The illustrations throught the book, however, are Blanche Fisher Wright's and they are just as beautiful as the original 1916 ones.

This book contains classics like" Pat-A-Cake, See-Saw, Little Bo-Peep, Little Boy Blue, Humpty Dumpty, Ring Around The Rosy and countless others.

If you would like to share the Original Mother Goose with a child of the next generation or just read it yourself to reminisce your OWN childhood, this is the book for you!

Happy Rhyming and Reading!

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original is Still the Best, February 24, 2003

By A Customer

Save us from historical revisionists like Ms. Takahashi, who clearly has no idea of the origins of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes or the harsh conditions that existed in England when the rhymes developed. Social class division, beating, and animal cruelty were facts of life. Certainly the subject matter can be a little grisly, but infants don't care -- they love the sing-song quality of the verses. Older children can find in the rhymes a painless introduction to history and a springboard for discussions about why we do things differently today. My grandmother used this book with my mother as an infant in 1922 and used it again with me as an infant in 1957. It is still just as good with our infant daughter today. Mother Goose has become a part of our cultural history. "Updating" the text to reflect modern mores smacks of the kind of historical revisionism carried out by Orwell's Ministry of Truth in "1984."