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Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]
She is best known for illustrating The Real Mother Goose, published in 1916 by Rand McNally. She married actor Charles Laite and in 1925 they fostered Gordon Laite who became a children's book illustrator in the 1960s and 1970s. [2]
[23] [24] Many of the ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes' book The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930), in which she linked famous nursery rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence. She posited that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded ...
It is a single quatrain with external rhymes [5] that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes. [6] The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (London, 1870), as outlined below: [7]
Fleet began his printing trade by producing works for booksellers, and also pamphlets, ballads and similar material for his own business purposes. [10] Also a writer of children's fables, [11] Fleet achieved an unusual place in American literary history in 1719 when he authored an American version of Mother Goose, entitled Songs for the Nursery; or, Mother Goose's Melodies.
Mascolo was born on March 13, 1929, [2] [3] and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut. [4] His parents, Anna Mascolo (née DeTuccio; 1910–2010) and Peter Mascolo (1901–2008), were immigrants from Naples, Italy, and had their 80th wedding anniversary shortly before his father died. [5]
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The Mother Goose Club YouTube channel also contains a number of shorter, song-only videos that feature cast members and other performers singing nursery rhymes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Additional content can be found on the Mother Goose Club mobile app in the form of songs, books, games, and videos [ 6 ] and on Netflix in the form of a nursery rhyme ...