Mother Goose in Prose

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Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. It was originally published in 1897 and re-released by the Geo. M. Hill Company in 1901. A later edition was published by Bounty Books (date?), ISBN 0-517-51904-6.

[edit] Table of Contents

The book opens with an 1899 introduction by Baum that traces the history of Mother Goose. It is followed by the original text of a nursery rhyme with a broader story to establish its literary context.

• Sing a Song o' Sixpence
• The Story of Little Boy Blue
• The Cat and the Fiddle
• Black Sheep
• Old King Cole
• Mistress Mary
• The Wond'rous Wise Man
• What Jack Horner Did
• The Man in the Moon
• The Jolly Miller
• The Little Man and His Little Gun
• Hickory, Dickory, Dock
• Little Bo-Peep
• The Story of Tommy Tucker
• Pussy-cat Mew
• How the Beggars Came to Town
• Tom, the Piper's Son
• Humpty Dumpty
• The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
• Little Miss Muffet
• Three Wise Men of Gotham
• Little Bun Rabbit

[edit] External links

• Mother Goose in Prose, available at Project Gutenberg.