‍ The Lunch Monkey’s Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is my fourth book and my first one that isn’t ukiyo-e themed. I decided to make my own version of Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes because I happened to see a page of Denslow’s Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and I loved it. I looked around and I saw that there were quite a few versions of it that different people had put together. All of them had varying degrees of quality. Some were just plain awful, some where okay and others were better but still not what I would consider high quality. While there was at least one that was pretty good, I thought that I could make my own version from scratch that would be leaps and bounds better than anything else available now. So when I finished making my ukiyo-e books, I started making this one. I went through the book and completely recreated all of the art and I also removed a few rhymes because while they might have been accepted when the book was originally written in 1901, two or three were culturally insensitive by today’s standards. In place of the ones that I removed, I added in two rhymes that were never in the book to begin with but I can’t figure out why they weren’t there. For some reason “Old Mother Hubbard” wasn’t in the original but Denslow had made a separate book about Old Mother Hubbard. I remade it and included it in my collection because it felt like it belonged there. I also used some of Denslow’s other works to create my own Denslow style version of “Beans, Beans the Magical Fruit” even though it wasn’t in the original and as far as I know he never made one. “Beans, Beans the Magical Fruit” was always a favorite in my house when I was a child and all of my friends knew and loved some version of it so I thought it would be a welcomed addition.