Mother Goose in Prose: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mother Goose in Prose, credited to L. Frank Baum, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere suggestions, leaving the imagination to weave in the details of the story. Many of the rhymes’ origins even at the time of this book’s writing could be traced back decades or centuries. L. Frank Baum in 1897, while living in Chicago, collected the rhymes and created short stories around them which add context and understanding for children who are drawn to the familiar melodies. (Summary by Westwinds12) Readers include: Barbara Wedge Westwinds12 Patricia Oakley Andrew Lebrun Christie Nowak Cynthia Lyons JemmaBlythe Charlene Harris Christian Levesque Brennan Holtzclaw David Barnes

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mother Goose in Prose
• Author credits: L. Frank Baum
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 4:46:24

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fairy tale
• children

Track guide

1. Introduction — 9:55
2. Singa Song o Sixpense — 14:10
3. Little Boy Blue — 18:23
4. The Cat and the Fiddle — 10:00
5. The Black Sheep — 9:58
6. Old King Cole — 13:07
7. Mistress Mary — 17:36
8. The Wondrous Wise Man — 12:15
9. What Little Jack Horner Did — 9:40
10. The Man in the Moon — 12:29
11. The Jolly Miller — 11:00
12. The Little Man and His Little Gun — 11:43
13. Hickory Dickory Dock — 10:32
14. Little Bo-Peep — 12:08
15. The Story of Tommy Tucker — 10:36
16. Pussy Cat Mew — 7:27
17. How the Beggars Came To Town — 19:19
18. Tom The Piper's Son — 8:21
19. Humpty Dumpty — 16:22
20. The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe — 11:01
21. Little Miss Muffet — 11:49
22. Three Wise Men of Gotham — 16:15
23. Little Bun Rabbit — 12:30

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