Blanche Fisher Wright

Blanche Fisher Wright was an American artist whose pictures gave generations of children their first look at the old nursery rhymes. Born Blanche Fisher in Wisconsin in 1887, she worked as a book illustrator in the 1910s and published under her first married name, Blanche Fisher Wright. In 1916 the publisher Rand McNally issued The Real Mother Goose with her illustrations. The rhymes themselves are traditional and anonymous, and no one knows who first made most of them up. Wright's part was to picture them, with cheerful drawings of Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Old Mother Goose riding her gander, and many more. The book became a favorite American nursery edition and is still reprinted today. She also illustrated The Goody-Naughty Book (1913), a series of school readers for Charles Scribner's Sons, and The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (1918). She later married the actor Charles Laite, and in 1925 they took in a foster son, Gordon Laite, who grew up to illustrate children's books himself. She died in 1971.

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