Cover titles is "Christmas with Mother Goose by Walt Kelly". Indicia title is "CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE, No. 172". Code number is C.M.G. #172-4711. Copyright 1947 by Oskar Lebeck. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 435. Initial information for this index from e-mail on the error list from Greg Theakston (June 2006).
Inside front cover; black, white, and red. Poem with several illustrations.
Comic Story
Mother Goose Helps Santa (10 pages)
Synopsis
With Christmas coming up, the Black Giant kidnaps Santa's helpers and is holding them for ransom. Mother Goose comes by and comes up with a plan where she will dress up as Santa to fool the Black Giant. She takes the Giant on a tour of the Candy Mine and tricks him into falling into the taffy springs.
The farmer intends to have Goosey Gander for Christmas dinner. The Fox invites Goosey to stay at his house, but intends to have the gander for HIS dinner.
The Three Blind Mice and a Christmas Deed (8 pages)
Synopsis
The Three Blind Mice, who aren't really blind, visit Mother Hubbard, only to find that she has no food. During the night they take some of her needlework to the butcher shop to trade for some meat, but are interrupted when they make too much noise.
Feature
The Three Blind Mice
Genre
Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters
The Three Blind Mice [Miney; Meeney; Moe]; Mother Hubbard; Dan (her dog); Morris
Little Jack Horner puts in an order for a pie at the Pieman's shop, where he meets Simple Simon. The two boys talk to Humpty Dumpty, but the egg falls off a window sill and cracks his head. Jack and Simon run off to get Jack and Jill to do repair work on Humpty, but find they are out of brown paper and vinegar--the materials they used to heal Jack when he fell down the hill. The Pieman comes to the rescue with a sticky pie that holds Humpty's head together.
Genre
Fantasy
Characters
Little Jack Horner; The Pieman; Simple Simon; Humpty Dumpty; Jack; Jill
Mary is sent to her room for being contrary. There an angel takes her to "Contraria", a nightmarish land where every object can talk and always contradicts what Mary says. Mary learns her lesson and the angel brings her back to her room.
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