Mother Goose in Prose Author:L. Frank Baum If ever a writer and an artist (Maxfield Parrish) were an unbeatable team, it's on these pages. Put that team to work on the most famous characters in the English language and the result can be nothing less than classic. The bare bones of the celebrated nursery rhymes are embroidered as only a master storyteller can. A charming book...tracing ... more »the vague but fascinating history of the rhymes back to 1650...« less