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M. A. Bonnell

Best remembered for a lively early-1900s retelling of nursery-rhyme favorites, this writer turned Mother Goose into a bicycle traveler and gave familiar characters a fresh, playful twist.

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About the author

Very little biographical information about M. A. Bonnell appears to be firmly documented in the sources I could confirm. What is clear is that Mother Goose's Bicycle Tour was published in Toronto by W. Briggs in 1901, and the book credits it as "written and adapted" by M. A. Bonnell.

The work reimagines classic nursery-rhyme figures in a light, comic travel adventure, which helps explain why it still surfaces in public-domain collections and audiobook projects today. Because reliable personal details such as full name, birth and death dates, or a broader bibliography were not clearly confirmed, it is safest to remember Bonnell through this inventive children's book rather than through an established author biography.