Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes - Illustrated by Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446545690
• Print ISBN:
  9781443797146
  9781447438052

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, penned by the legendary (and only some claim imaginary), 'Mother Goose.' They have inspired many folklorists and illustrators (including Charles Perrault, Arthur Rackham, Jessie Willcox-Smith and Jennie Harbour) – as well as countless generations of children and parents. Greenaway's Mother Goose was originally published in 1881, to instant critical acclaim. Kate Greenaway (1846 – 1901), was a children's book illustrator and writer, and remains one of the most popular illustrators of all time. Edmund Evans produced her first book ('Under the Window') in 1879, which was an instant best-seller and cemented her pre-eminent position. Her charming children in quaint costumes and idyllic scenes captured the imagination of the contemporary public – and continue to delight over a century after their initial publication. The artwork is presented in conjunction with the 'Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes' – both aspects further refining and elucidating the other. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children's stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
• Hark! hark! the dogs bark
• Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner
• There was an old woman
• Diddlty, diddlty, dumpty
• We’re all jolly boys
• To market, to market to buy a plum cake
• Elsie Marley has grown so fine
• Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat
• Lucy Locket, lost her pocket
• Cross Patch, life the latch
• Johnny shall have a new bonnet
• There was a little boy and a little girl
• Draw a pail of water
• Jack and Jill
• Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep
• Polly put the kettle on
• Little Tommy Tittlemouse
• Tell Tale Tit
• Goosey, goosey, gander
• Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?
• Mary, Mary, quite contrary
• Bonny lass, pretty lass, wilt thou be mine?
• A diller, a dollar
• Little Betty Blue
• Billy boy blue, come blow me your horn
• Girls and boys come out to play
• Here am I, little jumping Joan
• Ride a cock-horse
• Rock-a-bye baby
• Little Tom Tucker
• Little Miss Muffet
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
• See-Saw-Jack in the hedge
• Little lad, little lad
• As I was going up Pippin Hill
• Little maid, little maid
• My mother, and your mother
• All around the green gravel
• One foot up, the other foot down
• Georgie Peorgie, pudding and pie
• As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks
• Tom, Tom, the piper’s son
• Ring-a-ring-a-roses