Mother Goose Folklore

Last night my son inquired if Mother Goose was indeed a real person or simply a fiction, to which my wife replied that she had indeed been real. Intending on reading a bit about the author for both my son and myself, I proceeded to check Wikipedia. To my surprise, the article stated otherwise in [...]

Two Children’s Books, Hedgehog Tales

I currently have two children’s books out from the library, both hedgehog tales.

The first is The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale, retold by Jane Langton and illustrated by Ilse Plume. This is essentially a fancied up version of the ‘hedgehog becomes prince’ stories which I’ve recently posted a number of. Rather than copy the whole [...]