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Gr 3 Up-Just who was the real Mother Goose, who gave us all those rhyming verses? Raschka proposes here that she must have been Elizabeth Foster of Boston. "In 1692, she married old Isaac Goose from the city, a widower with 10 children." The author speculates on this brief biographical bit in four pages preceding the book's title page. In this creative scheme for the main text, his own brief comments about the Goose marriage and family life introduce two or four pages of selected Mother Goose and other traditional rhymes. Set in large red type in the upper left-hand corner of the spread, Raschka's poetic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More