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For more than 75 years The Real Mother Goose has been delighting thousands of boys and girls, and the magic is as strong as ever. Men and women who loved this book in childhood can now share it with their children. All the familiar verses are here, exactly as they have been repeated from generation to generation. Full color

Originally published in 1916

"First Scholastic printing, October 1994."

Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright

Little Bo-Peep -- Little Boy Blue -- Rain -- Clock -- Winter -- Fingers and toes -- A seasonable song -- Dame trot and her cat -- Three children on the ice -- Cross patch -- Old women under a hill -- Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee -- Oh dear! -- Old Mother Goose -- Little Jumping Joan -- Pat-a-cake -- Money and the mare -- Robin Redbreast -- A melancholy song -- Jack -- Going to St. Ives -- Thirty days hath September -- Baby Dolly -- Bees -- Come out to play -- If wishes were horses -- To market -- Old chairs to mend -- Robin and Richard -- A man and a maid -- Here goes my lord -- Clever hen -- Two birds -- Leg over leg -- Lucy Locket -- When Jenny Wren was young -- Barber -- Flying pig -- Solomon Grundy -- Hush-a-bye -- Burnie Bee -- Three wise men of Gotham -- Hunter of Reigate -- Little Polly Flinders -- Ride away, ride away -- Pippen Hill -- Pussy-cat and queen -- Winds -- Clap handies -- Christmas -- Elizabeth -- Just like me -- Play days -- Heigh-ho, the carrion crow -- A B C -- A needle and thread -- Banbury cross -- Man in our town -- Georgy Porgy -- For every evil -- Cushy cow -- Wee Willie Winkie -- About the bush -- See-saw -- Robin-a-bobbin -- John Smith -- Simple Simon -- Three blind mice -- Five toes -- A little man -- Doctor Foster -- Diddle diddle dumpling -- Jerry Hall -- Lengthening days -- Black hen -- Mist -- A candle -- Miss Muffet -- Curly-locks -- Humpty Dumpty -- One, two, three -- Dove and the wren -- Master I have -- Pins -- Shall we go a-shearing? -- Goosey, goosey, gander -- Old Mother Hubbard -- Cock and the hen -- Blue bell boy -- Why may not I love Johnny? -- Jack Jelf -- Jack Sprat -- Hush-a-bye -- Daffodils -- Girl in the lane -- Hush-a-bye -- Nancy Dawson -- Handy Pandy -- Jack and Jill -- Alphabet -- Dance to your daddie -- One misty moisty morning -- Robin Hood and Little John -- Rain -- Old woman from France -- Teeth and gums -- Robins -- Old man -- T'other little tune -- My kitten -- If all the seas were one sea -- Pancake day -- A plum pudding -- Forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, etc. -- Two pigeons -- A sure test -- Lock and key -- Lion and the unicorn -- Merchants of London -- I had a little husband -- To Babylon -- I'll tell you a story -- A strange old woman -- Sleep, baby, sleep -- Cry, baby -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- Little Fred -- Cat and the fiddle -- Doctor Fell -- A counting-out rhyme -- Jack and his fiddle -- Buttons -- Hot boiled beans -- Little pussy -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Tommy Tittlemouse -- Derby ram -- Hobby-horse -- Mulberry bush -- Young lambs to sell -- Boy and the sparrow -- Old woman, old woman -- First of May -- Sulky Sue -- House that Jack built -- Saturday, Sunday -- Little Jenny Wren -- Old woman and the pedlar -- Bobby Snooks -- Little moppet -- I saw a ship a-sailing -- A walnut -- Man in the moon -- One, he loves -- Bat, bat -- Hark! hark! -- My love -- Man of Bombay -- Poor old Robinson Crusoe! -- A sieve -- My maid Mary -- A difficult rhyme -- Pretty John Watts -- Good advice -- I love sixpence -- Bye, baby bunting -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son -- Comical folk -- Cock-crow -- Tommy Snooks -- Three sons -- Blacksmith -- Two gray kits -- one, two, buckle my shoe -- Cock-a-doodle-do! -- Pairs or pears -- Belleisle -- Old King Cole -- See, see -- Dapple-gray -- A well -- Coffee and tea -- Pussy-cat mew -- Little girl with a curl -- Dreams -- A cock and bull story -- For baby -- Myself -- Over the water -- Candle-saving -- Fears and tears -- Kilkenny cats -- Old Grimes -- A week of birthdays -- A chimney -- Ladybird -- Man who had naught -- Tailors and the snail -- Around the green gravel -- Intery, mintery -- Caesar's song -- As I was going along -- Hector Protector -- Billy, Billy -- Rock-a-bye, baby -- Man in the wilderness -- Little Jack Horner -- Bird scarer -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Bessy Bell and Mary Gray -- Needles and pins -- Pussy-cat and the dumplings -- Dance, Thumbkin, dance -- Mary's canary -- Little bird -- Birds of a feather -- Dusty miller -- A star -- Greedy man -- Ten o'clock scholar -- Cock-a-doodle-do -- An icicle -- A ship's nail -- Old woman of Leeds -- Boy in the barn -- Sunshine -- Willy, Willy -- Tongs -- Jack Jingle -- Quarrel -- Pumpkin-eater -- Shoeing -- Betty Blue -- That's all -- Bedtime -- Dance, little baby -- My little maid -- For want of a nail -- Pease porridge -- Ring a ring o'roses -- Crooked sixpence -- This is the way -- Ducks and drakes -- Donkey -- If -- Bells -- Little girl and queen -- King of France -- Peter Piper -- One to ten -- An equal -- Tarts -- Come, let's to bed -- Little maid -- What are little boys made of? -- Bandy legs -- Girl and the birds -- A pig -- Jenny Wren -- Little Tom Tucker -- Where are you going, my pretty maid? -- Old woman of Gloucester -- Multiplication is vexation -- Little King Boggen -- Whistle -- Bell horses -- Taffy -- Robin -- Old woman of Harrow -- Young Roger and Dolly -- Piper and his cow -- Man of Derby -- Coachman -- There was an old woman -- A thorn -- Old woman of Surrey -- Little mouse -- Boy and girl -- When -- Sing, sing -- London Bridge -- March winds -- Balloon -- A cherry -- Lost shoe -- Hot codlins -- Swan -- Three straws -- Man of Tobago -- Ding, dong, bell -- A sunshiny shower -- Farmer and the raven -- Christmas -- Willy boy -- Polly and Sukey -- Death and burial of poor Cock Robin -- Mouse and the clock -- Hot-cross buns -- Bobby Shaftoe -- Bunch of blue ribbons -- Woman of Exeter -- Sneezing -- Pussy-cat by the fire -- When the snow is on the ground