Children's literature

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A white goose walking alone down a narrow muddy village lane at early morning, rendered in lino print style. Off-white and cool blue-grey palette, bare hedgerow on one side, low mossy stone wall on the other, morning mist softening the distance. The goose is slightly pompous and entirely unhurried. No children, no books, no text. Clean incised lino print lines with cool blue-grey atmospheric wash, faintly comic and quietly confident mood.

What Mother Goose Left Behind

Before bedtime stories, before picture books, before literacy itself, there were rhymes. A deep look at the woman who wasn't one person, the collection that wasn't one book, and the tradition that quietly built the architecture of childhood reading.