Mother Goose (disambiguation)
Mother Goose is a figure in the literature of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
In particular, the fairy tales are commonly those of the Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Fairy Tales from Bygone Eras), subtitled Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oie (Tales of My Mother Goose), collected by Charles Perrault, and frequently translated and adapted
Mother Goose may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- Mother Goose and Grimm, an American comic strip
- Mother Goose in Prose, a children's stories collection by L. Frank Baum
Music
Groups
- Mother Goose (band), a 1970s New Zealand band
- Mother Goose (Finnish band), a Finnish alternative rock band
Works
- "Mother Goose", song on the album Aqualung by the progressive rock band Jethro Tull
- "Mother Goose", a 1998 song by horror rock band Rosemary's Billygoat
- "Ma mère l'Oye", a piece of music composed by Maurice Ravel
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- "Mother Goose", the nickname of Jim Goose, a character in the movie Mad Max (1979)
- Mixed-Up Mother Goose, a series of edutainment computer games produced by Roberta Williams for young children
- Mother Goose Award, an annual award presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration"
Other uses
- Chris Pitman (born 1961), an American rock keyboardist, nicknamed "Mother Goose"
- Mother Goose Lake, a lake in Alaska, USA
- Mother Goose Playskool and Gradeschool, a system of schools in the Philippines
See also
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