The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme characters to settle in the Prairies with her and their mixed responses to her plans. Responding to a cease and desist command from No. 10 Downing St., M. Goose categorically makes her case for the out-migration and re-migration of her stories. She supposes they will continue to live if she gives them leave to change as time, place, and experience dictate. She is, after all, a runaway Mother Goose.

In print for the first time, The Mother Goose Letters presents scrupulously collated research in the form of hitherto unseen letters and previously unknown revisions of the best-known Mother Goose nursery rhymes and fairy tales. These collected works are used as the framework whereby a story of modern day immigration can be told.

• Cover
• Advance Praise for The Mother Goose Letters
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• To the Editor
• Little Red Ridinghood
• Rhyme and Reason
  • Humpty Dumpty
  • Wee Willie Winkie
  • Mistress Mary
  • The House That Jack Built
  • The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
  • Jack be Nimble
  • Little Jack Horner
  • The Queen of Hearts
  • Old Mother Hubbard
  • Simple Simon
  • The Muffin Man
  • Charlie Charlie
  • Little Miss Muffet
  • George Peorgie
  • Jack and Jill
  • Three Blind Mice
  • Dr. Foster
  • Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
  • Tom Tom the Piper’s Son
  • Old King Cole
  • Jack Sprat
  • Little Bo Peep
  • Three Men in a Tub
• The Three Little Pigs
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  • Part 1. Jack Sells the Crow
  • Part 2. The World at the Top of the Beanstalk
  • Part 3. The Goose Restores the Rain
  • Part 4. Crow and the Drum Song
  • Part 5. The Caged Bird
• The Correspondence
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements