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GEORGE A. WOODS

The rhymes are true Mother Goose, but the illustrations are pure Charles Addams which means you'd better start the very young on a more traditionally illustrated collection than "The Chas. Addams Mother Goose"…. Unless, of course, you want wee ones to know that the farmer's wife cut off the tails of those blind mice with an electric carving knife or to see the size of the ghoulish thing that upset Miss Muffet or what Jack Sprat and the Mrs. subsisted on. Better not let them see Wee Willie Winkie peering through the glass they'll never go to bed. Come 7 or 11 you won't be able to keep them away from the book; meanwhile enjoy it yourself.

George A. Woods "A Gaggle of Goose and Grimm," in The New York Times Book Review, October 29, 1967, p. 42.∗

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