(Witten, Anita). Mandel, Charlotte. - Mother Goose Tells It Like It Is. Verses by Charlotte Mandel. Illustrations by Anita Witten.

(Essex County, NJ): Published by the author and artist, (1969). (1969). - Octavo, softcover bound in light blue wraps titled & decorated in black. The wraps are lightly bumped & soiled with their edges somewhat darkened. 40 pages. Full-page illustrations & vignettes in black & white by Anita Witten. There is an owner's red ink name & date at the top of the title page. Very good.

Edgy sixties parodies of Mother Goose nursery rhymes: "See-saw, automate more / Factories have a new master, / Men shall get but a penny a day / Because the machines can work faster". Another rhyme reads: "This little kid drives to market / This little kid rules the home / This little kid eats pizza / This little kid hogs the phone / And this little kid flies on / L.S.D. all the way home!" The author and artist state that they are donating the proceeds from the sale of this book "to further the work of Essex County, N.J. Chapter, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom."

Mandel writes of her career: "Until midlife, my working identity was entirely that of wife-mother-daughter, a role attached to the needs of others. I still value those parts of my identity, but incorporate them into my work as poet, editor, teacher, and independent scholar."

Scarce. Good .

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