Mother Goose Rhymes

or Nursery Rhymes

Children all over the world have recited, sang, and repeated Mother Goose rhymes, but they have never bothered to know their origin and their meaning.

Who was Mother Goose and where did she live?

1697 French writer, Charles Perrault, published a collection of fairy tales.

Comtes de Ma mere I “Oye or Tales of My Mother Goose.

John Newberry published Mother Goose Melody.

As the Mother Goose rhymes: interesting bits of

history old customs Manner and beliefs

Richard III was probably Humpty Dumpty.

James Orchard Halliwell published Gammer Gurton’s Garland or the nursery Parnassus