Mother Goose rhymes

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1. The brief, traditional, anonymous verses, or nursery rhymes, learned by children in the English-speaking world. Among the best-known Mother Goose rhymes are “Humpty Dumpty,” “Jack and Jill,” “Little Miss Muffet,” and “Old King Cole.”

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Mother Goose rhymes

Auden and Bruno Bettelheim have recognized Mother Goose rhymes and fairy and folk tales for what they are: Rorschach tests for the fears of childhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this slender facsimile reprint of selected Mother Goose rhymes does reasonably well by the grainy, graceful, pastel charms of Victorian Illustrator Kate Greena way's 1881 original.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Gupta gives the boy a handsome illustrated copy of Mother Goose rhymes.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But you should have seen Pansy speak some Mother Goose rhymes.

From A Modern Cinderella by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Say the good old Mother Goose rhymes of "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man," "This little pig went to market," etc., etc.

From What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know by John Dutton Wright