The fine gossamer-winged creatures we often associate with fairies are a product of nineteenth-century writers and twentieth-century films. Was my memory unreliable, or was there more than one Mother Goose? What exactly is a literary “fairy tale”? And who was Mother Goose? On reflection, I had conflicting memories of the cover and content of what I imagined as Mother Goose, so I was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, if not the garden. Cover of The Complete Collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (Applesauce Press, 2018). But one of my earliest childhood literary memories, Mother Goose, takes us right to the heart of fairy tale territory. Some books I enjoyed as a small child involved no magic or magical creatures, and are set in a world identifiable as our own.
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