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Mother Goose
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Mother Goose, a traditional name for a narrator of nursery rhymes and
fairy stories. She came into the English language from the frontispiece of
Perrault's tales: the name was taken up by children's publisher John
Newbery and others in various collections of rhymes and tales, and she became a well-known figure of folklore in both Britain and North America.
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Mother Goose gift prompts memories
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/4/2003; ; 700+ words
; COUNTY LINES Mother Goose gift prompts memories By LAUREL WALKER...for their lost mittens. A survey of Mother Goose titles from Williams' collection suggests...as time in the bedroom with pop-up Mother Goose books. Eventually, Betty Williams...
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Beaver college professor: Mother Goose Rhymes on the wane. (Bette Goldstone)
PR Newswire; 4/30/1990; 700+ words
; BEAVER COLLEGE PROFESSOR: MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES ON THE WANE GLENSIDE, Pa...natural story-telling style and Mother Goose's rhymes in terms of cadence...news from the study was bad for Mother Goose. Goldstone also surveyed 92 preschool...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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DO MOTHER GEESE GET SAD? DAUGHTER'S QUESTION SPAWNS MOM'S SHORT STORY.(Stars)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...disarmed by a simple question from her 4-year-old daughter two years ago. As mother and daughter shuttled around town running errands, little Haley spotted a flock of geese and asked: "Is the mommy bird sad when her babies grow up and go away...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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RUFFLING RHYMES CRITIC PLAYS LOOSE WITH MOTHER GOOSE.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/15/1987; 700+ words
; ...isn't the first critic of old Mother Goose. As early as 1641, George Wither...general dishonesty. In defense of Mother Goose, many of the rhymes were never...in the 1700s under the title "Mother Goose Rhymes." Some, undoubtedly...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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RESEARCHER FEARS MOTHER GOOSE FADING AWAY
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/2/1991; 700+ words
; ...that the nation may be forgetting Mother Goose. "We've made Walt Disney our...she said. Many teachers use Mother Goose to teach reading skills, showing...violence and alleged sexism of Mother Goose has generated criticism. An English...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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WOUNDED `MOTHER GOOSE' READY TO WING IT A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/31/1999; ; 685 words
; ...to come forward. A Canada goose at Green Lake was also shot...efforts to save it failed. Mother Goose's new owners, the Chovanaks...Chovanak said of Mother Goose. The couple now have a barnyard...chickens, 30 ducks, a couple of geese, four peacocks, two goats...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Real-life 'Mother Goose' frets over disappearance of loved bird
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/18/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Kalantzes, then, is both mate and mother. Now Lucy's eggs are missing...the house she shares with her mother she has been pacing, crying...Kalantzes adopted two more geese, at an office complex across...She spotted a nest and a mother goose who had just hatched an egg...
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Mother Goose Rocks! Enhanced CDs Introduced; Children's Music Line Features Song Parodies by Fictional Pop Music Superstars.
Business Wire; 11/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...announced the national release of Mother Goose Rocks!, a new line of children...Happy and You Know It by Wink 123. Mother Goose Rocks! has a suggested retail...original content properties include Mother Goose Rocks!, The HeeBee GeeBees...
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Farewell to Mother Goose? Boston-area activists work to protect geese
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...activists who fear that the geese are falling victim to...group have handed out "Mother Goose News" fliers and written...and stressful for the geese. Last March, when the geese were nesting, the group...passers-by near the goose meadow and held signs reading, "Goodbye, Mother ...
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Mother Goose a big hit
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 7/27/2006; ; 596 words
; ...daughter, Jessica, 3, during the "Mother Goose on the Loose" program at the Dyer...We've had a great response to Mother Goose," Murphy said. "It's normally...Madeline. "We've been to the Mother Goose program a few times before...
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Mother Goose
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mother Goose name associated with nursery rhymes . Most English nursery rhymes have been ascribed to Mother Goose. The origin of the name is still...de ma mère L'Oye [tales of mother goose]. This name has in turn been traced...
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Songs for the Nursery; Or, Mother Goose's Melodies
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Songs for the Nursery; Or, Mother Goose's Melodies, nursery rhymes said to have...Thomas Fleet, from verses known by his mother‐in‐law, Mrs. Elizabeth Goose or Vergoose. This claim, advanced in 1860...
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goose
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...a girl employed to tend geese, in fairy stories the...who marries a prince. goose-step a military marching...German militarism. See also geese , golden goose , kill the goose that lays the golden eggs , Mother Gooseat mother , what...
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mother
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...oye [Tales of Mother Goose], a French expression...tradition that the real Mother Goose was an Elizabeth Goose, an inhabitant of Boston...used in ornamentation. Mother's Day a day of the year on which mothers are particularly honoured...
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Hale, Shannon
Book article from: Something About the Author
...Book Award, 2004, all for The Goose Girl. Writings The Goose Girl, Bloomsbury (New York...humans. This disappoints Ani's mother, the queen, and she arranges...after generation, passed from mother to daughter, persevering orally...
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