Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. It was originally published in 1897 and re-released by the Geo. M. Hill Company in 1901. A later edition was published by Bounty Books (date?), ISBN 0517519046.

Table of Contents

The book opens with an 1899 introduction by Baum that traces the history of Mother Goose. It is followed by the original text of a nursery rhyme with a broader story to establish its literary context.

• Sing a Song o' Sixpence
• The Story of Little Boy Blue
• The Cat and the Fiddle
• Black Sheep
• Old King Cole
• Mistress Mary
• The Wond'rous Wise Man
• What Jack Horner Did
• The Man in the Moon
• The Jolly Miller
• The Little Man and His Little Gun
• Hickory, Dickory, Dock
• Little Bo-Peep
• The Story of Tommy Tucker
• Pussy-cat Mew
• How the Beggars Came to Town
• Tom, the Piper's Son
• Humpty Dumpty
• The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
• Little Miss Muffet
• Three Wise Men of Gotham
• Little Bun Rabbit

1897 books | Nursery rhymes