Mother Goose for Grownups

He was born in New York City, the first-born of author Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.

He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl’s famous quote “It takes two bodies to make one seduction,” which was a somewhat risqué statement for those times.

This Book “Mother Goose for Grownups” is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

01 - To Constance
02 - The Admirable Assertiveness of Jilted Jack
03 - The Blatant Brutality of Little Bow Peep
04 - The Commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard
05 - The Disappointing Discovery of Little Jack Horner
06 - The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
07 - The Fearful Finale of the Irascible Mouse
08 - The Gastronomic Guile of Simple Simon
09 - The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue
10 - The Inexcusable Improbity of Tom, the Piper’s Son
11 - The Judicious Judgement of Quite Contrary Mary
12 - The Linguistic Languor of Charles Augustus Sprague
13 - The Mysterious Misapprehension Concerning a Man in Our Town
14 - The Opportune Overthrow of Humpty Dumpty
15 - The Preposterous Performance of an Old Lady of Banbury
16 - The Quixote Quest of Three Blind Mice
17 - The Remarkable Regimen of the Sprat Family
18 - The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting
19 - The Touching Tenderness of King Karl the First
20 - The Unusual Ubiquity of the Inquisitive Gander