Pop Corn Ma Goodness Author:Edna Mitchell Preston The Story of how Ma and Pa met and married, their joys, sorrow, and contentments, told in alliterative, nonsense verse. With the handsome water-color illustrations the book is a near-classic American folk hymn. - The New York Times — Nonsense verses that would have delighted Carl Sandburg tell of the meeting, marriage, and good life on the farm o... more »f Ma Goodness and Pop Corn. The illustrations - beautiful four-color water-color paintings - combine simplicity and sophistication; they share the folk feeling of the text..." - The Horn Book« less