Father Goose: His Book, by L. Frank Baum, or the character of that name in his other works
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Father Goose, a book by Chapman Mortimer that won the 1951 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Father Goose: His Book is a collection of nonsense poetry for children, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, and first published in 1899.
(On the question of tolerance versus bias in Baum's canon, see also Daughters of Destiny, Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea, Sky Island, and The Woggle-Bug Book.
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The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's The Twinkle Tales (1906), Policeman Bluejay (1907), and L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (1910).
(Her husband also worked on the Baum canon: Walter Enright illustrated Baum's Father Goose's Year Book in 1907.)
For a time around the turn of the twentieth century, Seymour was associated with L. Frank Baum, and worked on Baum's books By the Candelabra's Glare (1898), Father Goose: His Book (1899), and American Fairy Tales (1901).
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Burton was married to Alberta Neiswanger Hall, a composer who wrote songs for children, including settings for L. Frank Baum's The Songs of Father Goose.
Her sister Sharyl was also a child actor, appearing in Father Goose with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron, and in I Saw What You Did with Joan Crawford and John Ireland, while her older sister Lorna acted in stage productions.
Award-winning Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose (1994), which was chosen Pick of the List by the American Booksellers Association, is a collection of 30 poems previously submitted to magazines.
Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" taught English at Cypress Lake High School, 1967–1973
Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" graduated 1964
Charles Ghigna (“Father Goose”), renowned poet and children’s book author of 50 award-winning books and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Returning to Earth, sits on Turtle’s editorial advisory board and has had his work published in the magazine.