Mother Goose

Blanche Fisher Wright's cover artwork for the Rand McNally 1916 book The Real Mother Goose

The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhyme often published as (Old) Mother Goose's Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme.

Quotes

• Old Mother Goose,

When she wanted to wander,

Would ride through the air

On a very fine gander.

Jack's mother came in,

And caught the goose soon,

And mounting its back,

Flew up to the moon.

• I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 88–90.

See also

• Father Goose (film)
• Charles Perrault