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A spider, a hill, a wall: whole little worlds spring to life in a handful of rhyming lines.
The Real Mother Goose gathers English nursery rhymes from an anonymous folk tradition. Little Miss Muffet meets a frightening spider, Jack and Jill climb a hill, and Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall. Around them, animals, food, weather, and daily chores become the stuff of short songs and small stories.
These verses grow from song, play, street cries, and lullabies, changing as people pass them from voice to voice. Strong beats and repeated words invite you to chant, clap, or rock along. Blanche Fisher Wright’s bright, detailed illustrations place children, animals, and homely scenes beside the rhymes, giving your eye as much to explore as your ear.
What you’ll discover
- Small stories, strong beats Meet Little Miss Muffet, Jack and Jill, and Humpty Dumpty in tales told in few lines.
- Words worth saying aloud Feel how plain rhymes and repeated words turn reading into chanting, clapping, and play.
- Pictures full of detail Explore Wright’s bright scenes of children and animals alongside the verses they accompany.
- Everyday things become verse Find food, weather, and daily chores woven into short songs with a strong rhythmic pulse.
- Voices passed between generations Discover folk verse shaped by many voices rather than the work of a single poet.
Who will love it
Parents, grandparents, teachers and caregivers who want rhymes to sing and say with small children will find a rich store here. Lovers of folk tradition, riddles and old English life will enjoy it too.
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- A book of voices with no single author
- Lullabies carry the calm of the nursery
- Finger games and action rhymes teach through play
- Little characters give each rhyme a face
- Riddles and puzzles make young minds work
- Counting and calendar rhymes hold useful lessons
- Animals act like people in these rhymes
- Street cries and sharp humor show old life
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La verdadera Mamá Gansa
by Blanche Fisher Wright · 1916
A cow jumps over the moon, and a dish runs away with a spoon in these rhymes for small ears.
Medium levelUnder 2 hours to read2 languages
Aprende un idioma con clásicos de nivel mediumEspañolFrancésAlemánItalianoJaponésPortuguésInglésCómo medimos los niveles
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Who puts a pig in the air, sends a cow over the moon and lets a dish run off with a spoon? Nobody wrote these lines at a desk.
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- Tiempo de lectura
- Unas 55 min45 min fast, 1 h 5 min slow
- Duración
- 13.200 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Mediano longer sentences, everyday words
- Primera publicación
- 1916by Blanche Fisher Wright
Reading time at 238 words a minute (fast 300, slow 200). Cuánto se tarda en leer los clásicos · Actualizado
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A book of voices with no single author
The Real Mother Goose is a gathering of nursery rhymes, and nobody owns them. They grew out of English folk life over many generations. Nurses, farmers, street sellers and children sang them, changed a word here and there, and handed them on. The name Mother Goose is a friendly mask for all those voices.
The collection follows no strict order. A bedtime song sits beside a riddle, and a kettle rhyme is followed by a tale of a mouse and a clock. Little Bo-Peep opens the book with her missing sheep. A child never grows restless, because each rhyme is over before it can wear out its welcome.
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Wright, Blanche Fisher. The Real Mother Goose. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-real-mother-goose.
Wright, B. F. (2026). The real Mother Goose. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-real-mother-goose (Original work published 1916)
Wright, Blanche Fisher. The Real Mother Goose. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-real-mother-goose.
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What is The Real Mother Goose about?
It is a collection of traditional nursery rhymes, including lullabies, finger games, riddles, counting rhymes, street cries and tiny tales about figures such as Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill and Old Mother Hubbard.
Who wrote the Mother Goose rhymes?
No single person did. The rhymes come from English folk tradition and were handed down by voice. The name Mother Goose stands for the unknown singers, and Blanche Fisher Wright is the artist behind this illustrated collection.
Who is Little Bo-Peep and what happens to her sheep?
Little Bo-Peep is a shepherdess who loses her sheep, falls asleep and dreams she hears them bleating. When she goes searching with her crook, she finds a surprise about their tails hanging on a tree.
The author
Blanche Fisher Wright
1887–1971 · American children's book illustrator
Blanche Fisher Wright (1887–1971) was an American illustrator of children’s books. She lived in the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illustrated The Real Mother Goose, first published in 1916. Her work in that book consisted of pictures accompanying a collection of nursery rhymes.
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