Mother Goose

1) "The imaginary author of Mother Goose's Tales, a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London in the 18th century." (Definition by American Heritage online dictionary.)

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Goose (Wiki's Mother Goose)

3) http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-mother-goose.htm (Wisegeek's Mother Goose)

4) Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/

5) The Official Home of the Mother Goose Society http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/

Finally my personal favorite Mother Goose rhyme:

Hey! diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.