Generation after generation, Mother Goose lives on. Over the years, these rhymes—wise, charming, often nonsensical—have worked their simple music into the hearts and memories of children who themselves have passed on the verses to children of their own. The Glorious Mother Goose offers forty-two of the most familiar Mother Goose rhymes. But more than that, it demonstrates the depth of Mother Goose's rich heritage by bringing together, in one volume, some of the best illustrations by a wide variety of illustrators from the past: L. Leslie Brooke, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, John Lawson, Arthur Rackham, Frederick Richardson, and many more—all offering their unique interpretations, in color and black-and-white, of the images Mother Goose evokes. The result is a feast for the eye, a fascinating study in comparisons and contrasts, a book to be treasured by the collector as well as by the child who, with a loving parent, is being introduced to Mother Goose for the first time.
—from the dust jacket
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