Mother Goose In Prose

by L. Frank Baum and Lyman Frank Baum

Book Overview

The volume begins with an historical overview written by Baum himself, in which he notes that the first use of the name "Mother Goose" was by the great French author of fantasies, Charles Perrault --... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517519046
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent illustrator;Oz author; nursery rhymes into stories

Maxfield Parrish black and white drawings complement L. Frank (Oz) Baum's expanded versions of the Mother Goose tales. Includes his versions of Sing a Song o' Sixpence, Little Boy Blue, Cat and the Fiddle, Old King Cole, Mistress Mary, Jack Horner, Man in the Moon, the Jolly Miller, Hickory Dickory Dock, Little Bo-Peep, Tommy Tucker, Tom the Piper's Son, Humpty Dumpty, The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, LIttle Miss Muffet, and others. 1986 introducyion by Patricia Barrett Perkins. 265 pages.