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Books in the Nursery Rhymes genre:

The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1914)

In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Wilcox Smith includes seven hundred and fifty nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (1917)

A collection of seven nursery rhymes with accompanying illustrations. Read online at wikisource.

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

A Child’s Own Book of Verse: Book One (1917)

Short poems for younger children.

Read online at archive.org

The Little Mother Goose (1918)

This is a smaller format version of Jessie Willcox Smith’s magnum opus, containing more than six hundred nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (1922)

A collection of eight nursery rhymes with pictures. Read online at archive.org. Or at wikisource.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Mother Goose Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1922)

A collection of nursery rhymes and stories.

Famous Rhymes: Mother Goose (1923)

Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski
Et al

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1923)

A collection of new and old stories and poems for very young children. Read online at Hathitrust.

Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 2 (1926)

This second volume of the later omnibus edition contains: Sing a Song for Sixpence (1880) The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880) The Farmer’s Boy (1881) The Queen of Hearts (1881) ... View More

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 3 (1926)

This third omnibus includes four R. Caldecott picture books: Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting (1882) The Milkmaid (1882) The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate (1883) A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1883) ... View More

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

Jack Horner’s Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1927)

A selection of nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Lois Lenski’s Mother Goose (1927)

This seems to be the same book as Jack Horner’s Pie, under a different title. Possibly a British version.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Children’s Hour with Mother Goose Jingles (1929)

A collection of Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Mother Goose: A Work and Play Book for Silent Reading (1929)

This is an elementary school reader based on children’s stories.

Sing a Song of Sixpence (1930)

A book of nursery rhymes printed on cloth.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose (1932)

More Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Mother Goose Rhymes (1932)

A collection of nursery rhymes illustrated by different artists.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1935)

A collection of stories, old and new and poems for very young children. This reprint had several different covers, and was also available in a box.

Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1937)

This is a compilation of longer traditional nonsense verse such as The Robber Kitten and Frog Went A-Courting. Many are quite violent. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Dean Fish
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1938

Susie Mariar (1939)

Susie Mariar fell in the fire,
The fire was so hot, she jumped in the pot …

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)

An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Tenggren Mother Goose (1940)

A selection of traditional rhymes and songs.

Author(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Tall Book of Mother Goose (1942)

A collection of Mother Goose rhymes.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Pictures from Mother Goose (1945)

A folio portfolio containing eight lithographs of subjects from Mother Goose.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Chicken Book (1946)

A new rendition of an old counting rhyme.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Garth Williams
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Mary Had a Little Lamb and Other Nursery Songs (1951)

A collection of nursery rhymes with music.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

A Cat Came Fiddling (1956)

A collection of fifty-seven traditional nursery rhymes set to music.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Paul Kapp
Illustrator(s): Irene Haas

Ding Dong Bell A First Book of Nursery Rhymes (1957)

A collection of familiar nursery rhymes and songs with music.

Author(s): Percy Young
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Little Golden Mother Goose (1957)

Seventy-five favorite Mother Goose rhymes.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Pancake (1957)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): James H. Fassett
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Was it a Good Trade? (1957)

A little man trades his knife for a wife and a cake for a rake and ...

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Illustrator(s): Irene Haas

More Mother Goose Rhymes: 57 Favorite Rhymes (1958)

Fifty-seven lesser known rhymes.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Mother Goose Rhymes: 154 Childhood Favorites (1958)

An omnibus edition of The Little Golden Mother Goose and More Mother Goose Rhymes, along with ten additional pages to bring the total to 154.... View More

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Hilary Knight’s Mother Goose (1962)

Over 100 nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

The Three Little Pigs (1962)

This is a delightful retelling of the story of the three little pigs in verse.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes (1963)

An extensive collection of nursery rhymes by those indefatigable collectors, the Opies. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Iona Opie
Peter Opie
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

A Family Book of Nursery Rhymes (1964)

An extensive collection of nursery rhymes from those indefatigable collectors, the Opies. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Iona Opie
Peter Opie
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Richard Scarry’s Animal Mother Goose (1964)

A large selection of Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever (1964)

Fifty well loved nursery rhymes.

 

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Richard Scarry’s Simple Simon and Other Rhymes (1964)

Simple Simon met a pie man.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

London Bridge is Falling Down (1967)

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down,London Bridge is falling down, My fair Lady! Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

To Market! To Market! (1967)

Illustrated nursery rhymes on the theme of the market.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Merry Mother Goose Book (1968)

A collection of favorite Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

And So My Garden Grows (1969)

A collection of nursery rhymes that tell the tale of two children as they wander through towns and palaces of nineteenth-century Italy.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

The Erie Canal (1970)

I’ve got an old mule and her name is Sal,
Fifteen miles on the Eirie canal.

Author(s): Thomas S. Allen
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever (1970)

A compendium of fifty traditional Mother Goose rhymes consisting of previously published material.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

My Big Golden Book of Words and Stories (1971)

This compendium includes My First Golden Dictionary, The Little Red Caboose and Three Bedtime Stories.... View More

Rojankovsky’s Wonderful Picture Book (1972)

A collection of some of Rojankovsky’s best illustrations from the Golden Books.

Mother Goose for Christmas (1973)

It’s the day before Christmas and two strangers have locked Mother Goose and Goosey Gander in the old Queen of Hearts Bakery. What are the concerned villagers to do?

Author(s): William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Mother Goose in Prose (1974)

The Wizard of Oz explains what really happened in twenty-two nursery rhymes.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

Nicola Bayley’s Book of Nursery Rhymes (1975)

A book of nursery rhymes.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Richard Scarry’s Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes (1976)

Twenty-five favorite nursery rhymes from previous books.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

One Old Oxford Ox (1977)

A tongue-twisting counting rhyme.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

We Came A-Marching … 1, 2, 3 (1978)

Here is a counting rhyme in one dozen languages.

Author(s): Mildred Hobzek
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Richard Scarry’s Mother Goose Scratch and Sniff Book (1979)

A Mother Goose with scratch and sniff tabs.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Nicola Bayley Canciones Tontas (1982)

A collection of nursery rhymes.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

A Mother Goose portfolio (1983)

A dozen nursery rhyme illustrations by twelve artists.

Richard Scarry’s Old Mother Hubbard (1983)

An excerpt from Richard Scarry’s Best Nursery Rhymes Ever.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Richard Scarry’s One, Two, Buckle My Shoe and Other Rhymes (1983)

Favorite rhymes from Richard Scarry’s Best Nursery Rhymes Ever.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Richard Scarry’s This Little Pig Went to Market and Other Rhymes (1983)

A collection of nursery rhymes from Richard Scarry’s Best Nursery Rhymes Ever.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Michael Hague’s Mother Goose: A Collection of Classic Nursery Rhymes (1984)

A collection of favorite nursery rhymes.

Read online at archive.org.

 

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Hush-A-Bye Baby and other Bedtime Rhymes (1985)

A collection of traditional nursery rhymes.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

En Lo Alto Del Arbol y Otras Rimas Infantiles (1986)

A collection of traditional nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Favorite Nursery Tales (1986)

This collection includes The Three Little Kittens, The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs.... View More

Author(s): Garth Williams
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Jolly Postman: Or Other People’s Letters (1986)

As the Jolly Postman goes his rounds, we get to read the letters he delivers to famous storybook characters. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs (1986)

The wolf needs higher mathematics to determine which house he should search for the three little pigs. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tsuyoshi Mori
Illustrator(s): Mitsumasa Anno

Bedtime & Moonshine (1987)

A combined edition of Hush-a-bye-Baby and As I Was Going Up and Down.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Richard Scarry’s Little Miss Muffet and Other Rhymes (1988)

Little Miss Muffet and her tuffet and other familiar nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Tail Feathers from Mother Goose (1988)

A collection of nursery rhymes, each illustrated by a different artist.

Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg
Nicola Bayley
Et al

The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1991)

In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Willcox Smith includes seven hundred fifty nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

A Pocket Full of Posies (1991)

A collection of favorite nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s): Roy Gerrard

The Opie Book of Nursery Rhymes (1997)

A copious and critical collection of nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Iona Opie
Peter Opie
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

A-Hunting We Will Go (1998)

Steven Kellogg has written new verses to a traditional nursery song and enlivened it with his fanciful illustrations. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

The Necessary Cat (1998)

A collection of poems, stories, facts, and illustrations about all kinds of cats.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Teddy Bears’ Mother Goose (2001)

A nursery rhyme book featuring teddy bears.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Big Snuggle-up (2011)

An old fashioned memory rhyme.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Brian Patten
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

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