James Christensen. Figurine of Jack Be Nimble.

The items on this bibliography represent the resources used to verify editions, versions, and variants of the primary Mother Goose books. These volumes were also used to provide contextual information about the history and possible meanings of the rhymes. There is some overlap with the primary bibliography because a number of volumes are both collections of the rhymes and contextual information surrounding those rhymes.

Aronson, Mark. Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Edited by S. Baring-Gould; with illustrations by members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London: Methuen, 1895.

The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. Arranged and explained by William S. Baring-Gould & Ceil Baring-Gould; illustrated by Walter Crane ... [et al.]; with chapter decorations by E. M. Simon. New York: Bramhall House, c1962.

Bett, Henry. Nursery Rhymes and Tales: Their Origin and History. New York: Henry Holt, 1924.

Bigham, Madge A. (Madge Alford). Stories of Mother Goose Village. Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Co., 1903.

Montgomerie, Norah. A Book of Scottish Nursery Rhymes. Collected and edited by Norah & William Montgomerie; illustrated by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

The Land of Nursery Rhyme. As seen by Alice Daglish and Ernest Rhys; with a map and pictures drawn by Charles Folkard. New York: Dutton, 1932.

Darton, Frederick Joseph. Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. F.J. Harvey Darton. 3rd ed.; revised by Brian Alderson. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Delamar, Gloria T. Mother Goose, From Nursery to Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.

Gammer Gurton's Garland; or, The Nursery Parnassus; A Choice Collection of Pretty Songs and Verses, For the Amusement of All Little Good Children Who Can Neither Read nor Run. London, England Printed for R. Triphook by Harding and Wright, 1810.

Green, Percy B. A History of Nursery Rhymes. London, Greening, 1899. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968.

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard). Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. [Compiled by J. Orchard Halliwell-Phillips]. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853.

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard). A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, From the Fourteenth Century. 9th ed. London, England: J. R. Smith 1878.

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard). The Nursery Rhymes of England, Collected Principally From Oral Tradition. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell. London, England: Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1842.

Harrowven, Jean. The Origins of Rhymes, Songs, and Sayings. New York: Gaylord , 1979. [Reprint of 1977 edition (London: Kaye & Ward)]

The Nursery Rhyme Book. Edited by Andrew Lang; Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. London; New York: Frederick Warne, 1897.

MacDougall, James. The Real Mother Goose: The Reality Behind the Rhyme. Toronto, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1940.

Moore, Annie E. "Mother Goose," in Literature Old and New for Children. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1934, pp.10-43.

Mother Goose of Boston: Hear What Ma'am Goose Says. Scotia, NY: Americana Review, 1961.

Muir, Percival Horace. English Children's Books, 1600-1900. London, England: Batsford, 1954.

Popular Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Jennifer Mulherin. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1983.

Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Edited and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, with ninety engravings. Facsim. ed. [London : The Bodley Head] ; Tokyo : Holp Shuppan, 1981. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library. Originally published: London : Griffith and Farran, 1858.]

The Only True Mother Goose Melodies: An Exact Reproduction of the Text and Illustrations of the Original Edition Published and Copyrighted in Boston in the Year 1833 by Munroe & Francis. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1905.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, as First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester Mass., about A.D., 1785. With introductory notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, J. Munsell's Sons, 1889 [i.e. 1890]. Detroit, Singing Tree Press, 1969.

Opie, Iona Archibald. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Iona and Peter Opie. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Opie, Iona Archibald. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Iona and Peter Opie. Reproduced 1977 with corrections. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Opie, Iona Archibald. The Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games From the Opie Collection. Iona and Robert Opie and Brian Alderson. New York: Arcade Publishing, Little, Brown, c1989.

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf). Early American Children's Books. By A.S.W. Rosenbach, with Bibliographical Descriptions of Books in His Private Collection; foreword by A. Edward Newton. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1966. [Reprint of 1933 edition (Portland, ME: Southworth Press)]

Thomas, Katherine Elwes. The Real Personages of Mother Goose. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1930.

Toronto Public Library. Osborne Collection. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910: A Catalogue. Prepared at Boys and Girls House by Judith St.; with an introduction by Edgar Osborne. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Public Library, 1958-1975. [In two volumes.]

Welch, D'Alte Aldridge. A Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1972.

Wells, Carolyn. Mother Goose's Menagerie. Pictured by Peter Newell. Boston, MA: Noyes, Platt, 1901.

Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Mother Goose for Grown Folks. New, revised, and enlarged ed., illustrated by Augustus Hoppin. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883.