A review by ashleylm
The Annotated Mother Goose: With an Introduction and Notes by William S. Baring-Gould

2.0

Not as interesting as hoped for, no fault of the author ... the nature of these nursery rhymes is their origins are unknown, so can't really be explicated, other than by conjecture or the reporting of other people's conjectures. (The book equivalent of trying to learn something at a party, where guests keep whispering "well I heard ...", when you'd really rather have the truth).

So ultimately stopped quite early and returned it to the library.

Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.