SIGN UP
Account
 

The Real Mother Goose

by Blanche Fisher Wright Illustrator

For more than seventy-five years The Real Mother Goose has been delighting millions of children, and today the magic is as strong as ever. Men and women who loved this book in childhood are now sharing it with their children and grandchildren; teachers and librarians everywhere acclaim it as the "standard" Mother Goose. All the familiar verses are here, exactly as that have been repeated from generation to generation. Mother Goose rhymes are a vital part of childhood. This wonderful book, with Blanche Fisher Wright's lively, colorful pictures - more than one hundred sixty of them - makes an enchanting introduction for the very young.

Tags:

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0-590-22517-0
Print Status
In Print
Poems
305
Pages
128
Suggested Grades
Early Years - 12th
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Edition
First Scholastic Edition
Copyright
1982
Written
1916

Poems

  • 1 Little Bo-Peep
  • 2 Little Boy Blue
  • 3 Rain
  • 4 The Clock
  • 5 Winter
  • 6 Fingers and Toes
  • 7 A Seasonable Song
  • 8 Dame Trot and Her Cat
  • 9 Three Children on the Ice
  • 10 Cross Patch
  • 11 The Old Woman Under a Hill
  • 12 Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
  • 13 Oh Dear!
  • 14 Old Mother Goose
  • 15 Little Jumping Joan
  • 16 Pat-a-Cake
  • 17 Money and the Mare
  • 18 Robin Redbreast
  • 19 A Melancholy Song
  • 20 Jack
  • 21 Going to St. Ives
  • 22 Thirty Days Hath September
  • 23 Baby Dolly
  • 24 Bees
  • 25 Come Out to Play
  • 26 If Wishes Were Horses
  • 27 To Market
  • 28 Old Chairs to Mend
  • 29 Robin and Richard
  • 30 A Man and a Maid
  • 31 Here Goes My Lord
  • 32 The Clever Hen
  • 33 Two Birds
  • 34 Leg Over Leg
  • 35 Lucy Locket
  • 36 When Jenny Wren was Young
  • 37 Barber
  • 38 The Flying Pig
  • 39 Solomon Grundy
  • 40 Hush-a-Bye
  • 41 Burnie Bee
  • 42 Three Wise Men of Gotham
  • 43 The Hunter of Reigate
  • 44 Little Polly Flinders
  • 45 Ride Away, Ride Away
  • 46 Pippen Hill
  • 47 Pussy-Cat and Queen
  • 48 The Winds
  • 49 Clap Handies
  • 50 Christmas
  • 51 Elizabeth
  • 52 Just Like Me
  • 53 Play Days
  • 54 Heigh-Ho, the Carrion Crow
  • 55 ABC
  • 56 A Needle and Thread
  • 57 Banbury Cross
  • 58 The Man in Our Town
  • 59 Georgy Porgy
  • 60 For Every Evil
  • 61 Cushy Cow
  • 62 Wee Willie Winkie
  • 63 About the Bush
  • 64 See-Saw
  • 65 Robin-a-Bobbin
  • 66 John Smith
  • 67 Simple Simon
  • 68 Three Blind Mice
  • 69 Five Toes
  • 70 A Little Man
  • 71 Doctor Foster
  • 72 Diddle Diddle Dumpling
  • 73 Jerry Hall
  • 74 Lengthening Days
  • 75 The Black Hen
  • 76 The Mist
  • 77 A Candle
  • 78 Miss Muffet
  • 79 Curly-Locks
  • 80 Humpty Dumpty
  • 81 One, Two, Three
  • 82 The Dove and the Wren
  • 83 Master I Have
  • 84 Pins
  • 85 Shall We Go a -Shearing
  • 86 Goosey, Goosey, Gander
  • 87 Old Mother Hubbard
  • 88 The Cock and the Hen
  • 89 Blue Bell Boy
  • 90 Why May Not I Love Johnny?
  • 91 Jack Jelf
  • 92 Jack Sprat
  • 93 Hush a-Bye
  • 94 Daffodils
  • 95 The Girl in the Lane
  • 96 Hush a-Bye
  • 97 Nancy Dawson
  • 98 Handy Pandy
  • 99 Jack and Jill
  • 100 The Alphabet
  • 101 Dance to Your Daddie
  • 102 One Misty Moisty Morning
  • 103 Robin Hood and Little John
  • 104 Rain
  • 105 The Old Woman From France
  • 106 Teeth and Gums
  • 107 The Robins
  • 108 The Old Man
  • 109 T'Other Little Tune
  • 110 My Kitten
  • 111 If All the Seas Were One Sea
  • 112 Pancake Day
  • 113 A Plum Pudding
  • 114 Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, etc.
  • 115 Two Pigeons
  • 116 A Sure Test
  • 117 Lock and Key
  • 118 The Lion and the Unicorn
  • 119 The Merchants of London
  • 120 I Had a Little Husband
  • 121 To Babylon
  • 122 I'll Tell You a Story
  • 123 A Strange Old Woman
  • 124 Sleep, Baby, Sleep
  • 125 Cry, Baby
  • 126 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • 127 Little Fred
  • 128 The Cat and the Fiddle
  • 129 Doctor Fell
  • 130 A Counting-Out Rhyme
  • 131 Jack and His Fiddle
  • 132 Buttons
  • 133 Hot Boiled Beans
  • 134 Little Pussy
  • 135 Sing a Song of Sixpence
  • 136 Tommy Tittlemouse
  • 137 The Derby Ram
  • 138 The Hobby-Horse
  • 139 The Mulberry Bush
  • 140 Young Lambs to Sell
  • 141 Boy and the Sparrow
  • 142 Old Woman, Old Woman
  • 143 The First of May
  • 144 Sulky Sue
  • 145 The House that Jack Built
  • 146 Saturday, Sunday
  • 147 Little Jenny Wren
  • 148 The Old Woman and the Pedlar
  • 149 Bobby Snooks
  • 150 The Little Moppet
  • 151 I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
  • 152 A Walnut
  • 153 The Man in the Moon
  • 154 One, He Loves
  • 155 Bat, Bat
  • 156 Hark! Hark!
  • 157 The Hart
  • 158 My Love
  • 159 The Man of Bombay
  • 160 Poor Old Robinson Crusoe
  • 161 A Sieve
  • 162 My Maid Mary
  • 163 A Difficult Rhyme
  • 164 Pretty John Watts
  • 165 Good Advice
  • 166 I Love Sixpence
  • 167 Bye, Baby Bunting
  • 168 Tom, Tom, the Pipers Son
  • 169 Comical Folk
  • 170 Cock-Crow
  • 171 Tommy Snooks
  • 172 The Three Sons
  • 173 The Blacksmith
  • 174 Two Gray Kits
  • 175 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  • 176 Cock-a-Doodle-Do
  • 177 Pairs or Pears
  • 178 Belleisle
  • 179 Old King Cole
  • 180 See, See
  • 181 Dapple-Gray
  • 182 A Well
  • 183 Coffee and Tea
  • 184 Pussy-Cat Mew
  • 185 The Little Girl with a Curl
  • 186 Dreams
  • 187 A Cock and Bull Story
  • 188 For Baby
  • 189 Myself
  • 190 Over the Water
  • 191 Candle-Saving
  • 192 Fears and Tears
  • 193 The Kilkenny Cats
  • 194 Old Grimes
  • 195 A Week of Birthdays
  • 196 A Chimney
  • 197 Ladybird
  • 198 The Man Who Had Naught
  • 199 The Tailors and the Snail
  • 200 Around the Green Gravel
  • 201 Intery, Mintery
  • 202 Caesar's Song
  • 203 As I was Going Along
  • 204 Hector Protector
  • 205 Billy, Billy
  • 206 Rock-a-Bye Baby
  • 207 The Man in the Wilderness
  • 208 Little Jack Horner
  • 209 The Bird Scarer
  • 210 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
  • 211 Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
  • 212 Needles and Pins
  • 213 Pussy-Cat and the Dumplings
  • 214 Dance, Thumbkin, Dance
  • 215 Mary's Canary
  • 216 The Little Bird
  • 217 Birds of a Feather
  • 218 The Dusty Miller
  • 219 A Star
  • 220 The Greedy Man
  • 221 The Ten O'Clock Scholar
  • 222 Cock-a-Doodle-Do
  • 223 An Icicle
  • 224 A Ship's Nail
  • 225 The Old Woman of Leeds
  • 226 The Boy in the Barn
  • 227 Sunshine
  • 228 Willy, Willy
  • 229 Tongs
  • 230 Jack Jingle
  • 231 The Quarrel
  • 232 The Pumpkin-Eater
  • 233 Shoeing
  • 234 Betty Blue
  • 235 That's All
  • 236 Bedtime
  • 237 Dance, Little Baby
  • 238 My Little Maid
  • 239 For Want of a Nail
  • 240 Pease Porridge
  • 241 Ring a Ring O'Roses
  • 242 The Crooked Sixpence
  • 243 This is the Way
  • 244 Ducks and Drakes
  • 245 The Donkey
  • 246 If
  • 247 The Bells
  • 248 Little Girl and Queen
  • 249 The King of France
  • 250 Peter Piper
  • 251 One to Ten
  • 252 An Equal
  • 253 The Tarts
  • 254 Come, Let's Go to Bed
  • 255 Little Maid
  • 256 What are Little Boys Made of?
  • 257 Bandy Legs
  • 258 The Girl and the Birds
  • 259 A Pig
  • 260 Jenny Wren
  • 261 Little Tom Tucker
  • 262 Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?
  • 263 The Old Woman of Gloucester
  • 264 Multiplication is Vexation
  • 265 Little King Boggen
  • 266 Whistle
  • 267 Bell Horses
  • 268 Taffy
  • 269 The Robin
  • 270 The Old Woman of Harrow
  • 271 Young Roger and Dolly
  • 272 The Piper and His Cow
  • 273 The Man of Derby
  • 274 The Coachman
  • 275 There Was an Old Woman
  • 276 A Thorn
  • 277 The Old Woman of Surrey
  • 278 The Little Mouse
  • 279 Boy and Girl
  • 280 When
  • 281 Sing, Sing
  • 282 London Bridge
  • 283 March Winds
  • 284 The Balloon
  • 285 A Cherry
  • 286 The Lost Shoe
  • 287 Hot Codlins
  • 288 Swan
  • 289 Three Straws
  • 290 The Man of Tobago
  • 291 Ding, Dong, Bell
  • 292 A Sunshiny Shower
  • 293 The Farmer and the Raven
  • 294 Christmas
  • 295 Willy Boy
  • 296 Polly and Sukey
  • 297 The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin
  • 298 The Mouse and the Clock
  • 299 Hot-Cross Buns
  • 300 Bobby Shaftoe
  • 301 The Bunch of Blue Ribbons
  • 302 The Woman of Exeter
  • 303 Sneezing
  • 304 Pussy-Cat by the Fire
  • 305 When the Snow is on the Ground

User Reviews

Add a Review

You'll need to log in to your account before leaving a review. Don't have an account? You can sign up for free!

Report a problem with this resource