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Pictures of Mother Goose and Friends for Christmas
Book reviews survey a glut of Christmas and children's books. Mother Goose traditions blend with new variants, illustrated by Brison, Kennedy, Denslow, and others, including Moon Children, Gulliver's Bird Book, The Bogey Book, and Golliwogg adventures, with varied art styles and tonal shifts for young readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Hubbard
Mother Goose
Santa Claus
Jamieson-Higgins Company
Benjamin F. Cobb
Ella S. Brison
Saalfield Publishing Company
Harry Otis Kennedy
Old Mother Hubbard
Jamieson- Higgins Company
Ernest Maurice Jessop
Guy Wetmore Carry
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Gilbert
Jack the Giantkiller
Laura Dayton Fessenden
Patsy
Dreamland
R. J. Campbell
R. B. Russell
Carolyn Wells
Oliver Herford
L. J. Bridgman
Lemuel Gulliver
H. M. Caldwell Company
States of the Union
Golliwogg
Longmans, Green & Co
Brownie
Jimmy Crow
Dana Estes & Co
Edith Francis Foster
Rebus
Admiral Frog
R. H. Russell
John W. Harrington
Willard Bertram Price
Frances Trego Montgomery
Billy Whiskers
W. H. Fry
Harry B. Nielson
Ena Gambols
Charles Scribner’s Sons
John Brymer
Frederick A. Stokes
George
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Emaller
London
John Hassall
Clifton Bingham
Charles Scribner's Sons
Roland
Paul Elder
Morgan Shepard
Bairn
E. P. Dutton & Co
Clare Bridgman
Walter Copeland
Peter Newell
the Century Company
E. G. Somerville
Martin Ross
Life
Gibson
Kemble
Life Publishing Company
Prince Silverwings
Edith Ogden Harrison
A. C. McClurg & Co
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Hans Christian Andersen
Joseph J. Mora
Dana, Estes & Co
Harriette Amsden
William Dana Orcutt
Kallisto
Little, Brown & Co
Frank L. Baum
Bowen-Merrill Company
Mary Cowes Clark
Zimmerman
Ruth Kimball Gardiner
Harry Smith
Rheims
Jesus
Raphael Tuck & Sons
H. R. Haweis