Poetry

The Real Mother Goose

by Blanche Fisher Wright (ill.)

Blanche Fisher Wright illustrated this collection of the old rhymes in 1916, and nearly every rhyme has its own picture: the cow over the moon, the old woman in her shoe, the four-and-twenty blackbirds. The rhymes are older than any book in the attic, and the youngest readers usually know them before they can read.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Where to find it

The attic behind the curious doors

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #10607. In the public domain in the United States.