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Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. It was originally published in 1897 and re-released by the Geo. M. Hill Company in 1901. A later edition was published by Bounty Books (date?), ISBN 0517519046.

Table of Contents

The book opens with an 1899 introduction by Baum that traces the history of Mother Goose. It is followed by the original text of a nursery rhyme with a broader story to establish its literary context.

Sing a Song o' Sixpence
The Story of Little Boy Blue
The Cat and the Fiddle
Black Sheep
Old King Cole
Mistress Mary
The Wond'rous Wise Man
What Jack Horner Did
The Man in the Moon
The Jolly Miller
The Little Man and His Little Gun
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Little Bo-Peep
The Story of Tommy Tucker
Pussy-cat Mew
How the Beggars Came to Town
Tom, the Piper's Son
Humpty Dumpty
The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Little Miss Muffet
Three Wise Men of Gotham
Little Bun Rabbit

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