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| Fairy Tales
Charles
Perrault's Mother Goose Tales:
Charles
Perrault's Mother Goose Tales with wonderful illustrations
by Gustave Dore, 1867.
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| Grave
that Is Not that of Mother Goose:
To learn the truth about the "supposed" grave of Mother Goose, see Who Was Mother Goose? on this site. To see a Web Site that continues the myth of Mother Goose being buried in Boston, see this. Though the supposed grave is a myth, nursery pilgrims, led by travel brochures, perpetuate the legend. An interesting feature is the ability to leave a note on the site. Note that there is another supposed Mother Goose gravesite, as well, at St. Olaf's Church in London, England, where there is a Burial Register plaque stating "14 September 1586 MOTHER GOOSE". This is two entries above Samuel Pepys’s burial plaque. |
| Illustrated Mother Goose Books Online
The Baby's
Opera: A Book of Old Favorites with New Dresses by Walter Crane
The
True Mother Goose - Songs for the Nursery, Or, Mother Goose's Melodies
for Children
The Real Mother Goose
- 128 rhymes; illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916
Major Online Book Collections The Gutenberg Project has a library of over 20,000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the United States. This resource has not only some Mother Goose books, but other antique children's books and stories, as well as other fiction and nonfiction From the Home page, fill in Mother Goose in the Title box and click. Currently there are six that include "Mother Goose" in their titles. Individual rhymes published as complete books can be searched for the same way. This site does not include illustrations. Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project probably has the largest collection of illustrated antique books online. Here you'll find Molther Goose, and other nursery and children's rhymes and tales. There are many foreign-language versions, from French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish to Afrikaans, Hrvatski, Romano, Nederlands, Suomecki, Svenska and more. Not all entries are in all languages. The illustrations are beatiful, high-quality, but the reading and page-looks are a bit daunting, each page needing to be enlarged, read, and unenlarged before the next page can be viewed. |
| Mother Goose Rhymes Online
The Mother Goose Pages is an excellent site from the University of Michigan. There are rhymes, resources, and suggestions for sharing Mother Goose with children. My Nursery Rhyme Pages is an excellent site from Kennesaw University. There are rhymes, resources, and suggestions for activities with children. A Land of Nursery Rhymes is a full UK site with over 1000 nursery rhymes plus songs, riddles, puzles, and more. Mother Goose has 362 rhymes, games, crafts, and some "twistful tales" based on nursery rhymes. Mama Lisa's World goes abroad to provide some nursery songs from different countries, giving both the foreign words and the English translations, along with single-note music sounds. Site also has general Mother Goose rhymes. Chinese Mother Goose shows the English-language Chinese Mother Goose rhymes collected by Isaac T. Headland in 1900. This URL takes you to a page from which you select to go on, and then to a page from which you can select from among five different formats for viewing the text. The FlipaBook version is easy to use and includes the early ilustrations, which are, interestingly, more "real life" than "children's book" style. The India Parenting Site contains some 80 English-language rhymes, and smaller collections in half a dozen Indian languages. |
| Scholarly
Information
Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration is an awesome site hosted by Rutgers University, intended for scholars and those teaching early childhood literature. The site is huge, with Mother Goose research branching out into many areas. |
| Links to Other Online Lists of Mother
Goose Links
Mother Goose Online is the Rutgers University list of Mother Goose links. Mother Goose Links is an Amherst University site with links to other Mother Goose links. |