Illustrations are not very vivid or saturated.

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	• Original Mother Goose Blanche Fisher Wright Running Press Kids, 1992 - 136 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Illustrations are not very vivid or saturated.

This is a lovely volume at a very attractive price. However, I was disappointed that the illustrations were not as good as I remember. Perhaps in childhood I had a different edition. The colors look somewhat washed out and, while there are many rhymes, there are not many full page illustrations.

I probably had an edition with a much smaller number of the more interesting rhymes with each one illustrated by a very colorful picture. If I had known this volume was not of that type I would not have purchased it.

I have seen photographs of the other available volume, titled, "The Real Mother Goose", and the colors seem to be more vivid. I wish I had known that before.

It is all a matter of taste, of course.

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The Beautiful, Always Classic "Mother Goose"!

I recently purchased this book for my new granddaughter and myself. It is beautifully bound in royal purple cloth with gorgeous endpapers and original front page illustrations by Milo Warner. The illustrations throught the book, however, are Blanche Fisher Wright's and they are just as beautiful as the original 1916 ones.

This book contains classics like" Pat-A-Cake, See-Saw, Little Bo-Peep, Little Boy Blue, Humpty Dumpty, Ring Around The Rosy and countless others.

If you would like to share the Original Mother Goose with a child of the next generation or just read it yourself to reminisce your OWN childhood, this is the book for you!

Happy Rhyming and Reading!

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Sublime and significant

This is an extremely lavishly illustrated book, with excellent typography, detailed lithograph quality period illustrations, excellent color separation, and wonderful line detail. Many pages of this book are suitable for framing.

The binding is of a quality rarely seen today. This is a work to endure in libraries for generations to come. And this is important.

This edition's careful preparation speaks of the timelessness and endurance of these rhymes and the influence they have had on the English language and the shaping of our collective consciousness in the Anglophone West. In Mother Goose morals manners and conventions are all set to rhyme. For America emerging from a rural British colonial economy into an author of her own destiny is reflected in this world: class division, economic opportunity, luck, affinity with but dominion over animals and nature, and above all, choices. But whysoever could these concepts and these words, presented this way, be important in our day and age? one may ask.

The answer, of course, is as simple as the rhymes themselves, for each illustrates a point of life that ultimately informs dimensions of English Common Law, of which we are all now subject as citizens. Indeed, you'd be hard pressed not to find a single word in this work that is not in "Black's Law Dictionary."

This original Mother Goose edition, coupled with reading aloud to children Shakespeare and the King James Bible prepares them for a mastery of English letters and concepts, and therefore a mastery of life in these United States and even the world, as few other cultural objects could.

Give your children the foundation for the future, and read them The Original Mother Goose, for it captures a voice we seldom hear in this day and age, and prepares them like few other offerings in life of making sense of our language and giving them power latter.

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The Original is Still the Best

Save us from historical revisionists like Ms. Takahashi, who clearly has no idea of the origins of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes or the harsh conditions that existed in England when the rhymes developed. Social class division, beating, and animal cruelty were facts of life. Certainly the subject matter can be a little grisly, but infants don't care -- they love the sing-song quality of the verses. Older children can find in the rhymes a painless introduction to history and a springboard for discussions about why we do things differently today. My grandmother used this book with my mother as an infant in 1922 and used it again with me as an infant in 1957. It is still just as good with our infant daughter today. Mother Goose has become a part of our cultural history. "Updating" the text to reflect modern mores smacks of the kind of historical revisionism carried out by Orwell's Ministry of Truth in "1984."

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The Original Mother Goose

What would the preschool years be without "Hey Diddle Diddle," "Mary had a Little Lamb," and "Humpty Dumpty"? Mother Goose nursery rhymes are part of our cultural heritage. The beautiful, colorplate illustrations in this original, oversized volume will make many of these rhymes especially memorable. Unfortunately, the rhymes are densely packed, with several on each page, and thus the majority do not have accompanying illustrations.

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A glorious, full-color collection of Mother Goose rhymes, featuring the classic Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. Favorite nursery rhymes fill the pages of this deluxe volume, complete with a real cloth binding and beautiful tipped-on cover art.

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