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Available
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Call number
811 Mot
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E Mot (c. 2)
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Publication
Running Press Kids (1992), Edition: First Edition, Later Printing, Hardcover, 136 pages
Description
A glorious, full-color collection of Mother Goose rhymes, featuring the classic Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations from the original 1916 The Real Mother Goose. Filled with all your favorite nursery rhymes-from Little Bo Peep and Wee Willie Winkie to Three Blind Mice, Humpty Dumpty, and hundreds more-this beautiful keepsake volume is complete with a real cloth binding and beautiful tipped-on cover art. The perfect gift for baby showers, new parents, and the special little one in your life, this classic children's book will be a treasured part of any home library for years to come.
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Physical description
136 p.; 10 x 0.75 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member farfromkansas
The cover of Blanche Fisher Wright’s edition of The Original Mother Goose claims to be “based on the 1916 classic,” but gives no other explanation for how the “original” Mother Goose rhymes have been changed or adapted for this newer publication. This edition of the Mother Goose nursery
Citation:
Wright, Blanche Fisher. The Original Mother Goose. Philadelphia: Running, 1992. Print.
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rhymes seems to be intended more as a collector’s item for nostalgic parents than as an accessible storybook for children: there seems to be (pardon the pun) no rhyme or reason for the organization of the “Rimes” in this edition, and the illustrations look like mock-vintage drawings from Victorian England. Even the illustrations of anthropomorphic animals (like the ones for “Ducks and Drakes” and “Little Jenny Wren”) feature “realistic” animals in fantastic clothing, awkwardly trying to bridge the gap between “kid-friendly” and “respectable” artwork. Additionally, like Wright’s art, the font looks like old-fashioned woodblock printing, suggesting an antiquity that may not appeal to children. Frustratingly, the “table of contents” also serves no purpose: the rhymes have no page numbers listed on the index, and anyone looking for a specific nursery rhyme will have to blindly flip through pages to find it. This may be an accurate recreation of “the original Mother Goose,” but an update (in this case) might have been more effective than fidelity to the source material.Citation:
Wright, Blanche Fisher. The Original Mother Goose. Philadelphia: Running, 1992. Print.
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