Well, it’s debatable... Sarah Josepha Hale published Poems for our Children in 1830, and her collection included an extended version of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’. In 1876 Mary Sawyer, by then known as ...

the lamb was a female. Sarah Hale's poem says it was a male. Sawyer is probably the source with reason to know. Wikimedia Commons Mary had a little lamb. This much any child could tell you.

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is an American nursery rhyme from the nineteen century. The verse was first published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon, a Boston publishing outfit, as a poem by the ...

Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little ... a poem in 1830 about Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb to school with ...

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is perhaps one of the most famous nursery rhymes in history. What’s less well known is the story behind the poem. There was indeed an actual Mary and she did actually have a ...

In the latest book in the Sing-Along Stories series, Mary Had a Little Lamb, adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott, Mary and her classmates sneak the lamb into their ...