100 Year Old Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales (With History)

This book includes classic children's nursery rhymes and fairy tales which are at least 100 years old (sources for the nursery rhymes and fairy tales are old books and newspaper archives). Included are Mother Goose rhymes from 1908 which include classic finger play rhymes such as "Pat a Cake" and "This Little Piggie Went to Market," as well as classic rhymes such as "See Saw Margery Daw," "To Market, To Market," "Hey, Diddle Diddle," "A Song of Sixpence," "Little Bo Peep," "Three Little Kittens," "Little Boy Blue," "Simple Simon," "The Crooked Man," "This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes," "London Bridge," "Old King Cole," and over one hundred more. This book also includes other classic children's rhymes such as "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," and "There Was a Little Girl," and a collection of poems by Eugene Field, as well as counting rhymes. Also included are the original Mother Goose Fairy Tales from Charles Perrault's 1697 collection: "Red Riding Hood," "The Sisters Who Dropped From Their Mouths Diamonds and Toads," "Bluebeard," "Sleeping Beauty," "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Riquet with the Tuft," and "Tom Thumb," This book also includes some history about Mother Goose tales and the namesake, some of the characters in the well-known rhymes and other interesting historical Mother Goose, nursery rhyme trivia and links to twenty-five 100 year or older children's rhyme or fairy tale ebooks which are free, for further investigations into the topic.