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Mother Goose's Attic

 

 

 

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Mother Goose

When Charles Perrault's famous story book "Histories, Contes de Ma Mere L'oye" was translated for the first time into English,the phrase was interpreted as "Mother Goose's Tales. In America especially, "Mother Goose" was later employed in the title of any collection of traditional stories or Songs & Nursery Rhymes.

THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE
Illustrated by
Blanche Fisher Wright

1916

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