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Mother Goose in Prose is L. Frank Baum's first children's collection, based on stories he told to his own children. Baum retells the classic nursery rhymes, as well as discussing the history of the nursery rhymes and the dubious identity of the so-called "Mother Goose." In the last chapter is introduced a little girl named Dorothy who would figure prominently in the Oz tales. A national bestseller, the book contains the following chapters: "Sing a Song o' Sixpence," "Story of Little Boy Blue," "Cat and the Fiddle," "The Black Sheep," "Old King Cole," "Mistress Mary," "The Wond'rous Wise Man," "What Jack Horner Did," "The Man in the Moon," "The Jolly Miller," "Little Man & His Gun," "Hickory Dickory Dock," "Little Bo-Peep," "Story of Tommy Tucker," "Pussy-cat Mew," "How Beggars Came to Town," "Tom, the Piper's Son," "Humpty Dumpty," "Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," "Little Miss Muffet," "Three Wise Men of Gotham," and "Little Bun Rabbit." First published in 1897.

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