The Mother Goose Book

by Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen

Illustrated in a style popular in the late nineteenth century and organized by subject, this collection of 150 Mother Goose tales offers a combination of traditional favorites and less familiar verses.

Genres: Picture Books

60 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Alice Provensen collaborated with her late husband, Martin, on numerous highly acclaimed picture books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning The Glorious Flight and Nancy Willard's Newbery Medal-winning A Visit to William Blake's Inn, which was also a Caldecott Honor Book. The Provensens have been on the New York Times list of the Ten Best Illustrated Books eight times.

Reviews

[Emmy]

This collection includes timeless nursery rhymes ranging from A Diller, A Dollar to There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. I enjoyed this round of Mother Goose as much as I did as a child. I especially enjoyed As I was going to St. Ives . The illustration of seven wives with seven sacks with seven cats with seven kittens is an equation that will always delight me.

[sasasa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This might be my favorite version of mother goose. has a few rhymes i hadn't seen before (eg. the answer song to peter, peter pumpkin eater!) and the illustrations are beautiful of course. many are organized thematically so one illustration ties several rhymes together. i predict someday i'll have every single provensen book...

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully illustrated book. There were many (almost too many) nursery rhymes, many I was not familiar with.

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Notes:
visual overload; if there were less rhymes per page it would be great;
illustrations are so creatively done but otherwise there are much better collections available