Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Mother Goose Series No. 170)

[60 pp.] Black-and-white line drawing illustrations throughout. Includes Old Mother Hubbard, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Yankee Doodle, Hot Cross Buns, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, Jack Be Nimble, etc. "The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called "Mother Goose" is often performed in the United Kingdom. The so-called "Mother Goose" rhymes and stories have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes. Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose."