Unlike Tenniel's Alice , there is no one definitive version of Mother Goose. The Mother Goose rhymes, like Aesop's fables and the tales of Grimm, offer unlimited possibilities for illustration, and over the past two hundred years many artists (Rackham, Greenaway, Sendak, to name...
For more than two centuries, the adorable and clever poems of Mother Goose have served as a delightful first introduction to poetry. Here the Old Dame's genius for timeless nonsense is happily matched by a gifted American illustrator who outdid himself in her honor. James Marshall...