booking Paul Wilson
booking Scott Clayton
booking [at] Creative Artists Agency
composed by Natalie Merchant
coordinator [project coordinators] Megan C. Ingalls
coordinator [project coordinators] Sue Berger
design [package] David Pearson
editor [editorial manager for nonesuch records] Robert Edridge-Waks
engineer [assistant, avatar studios] Rick Kwan
engineer [assistant, legacy recording studios] Angie Teo
engineer [assistant, legacy recording studios] Derik Lee
engineer [assistant, legacy recording studios] Peter Wolford
engineer [assistant, the sound kitchen] Adam Deane
engineer [assistant] Elijah Walker II
engineer [second assistant] Dustin Wickell
engineer [the sound kitchen] Nick Brophy
illustration [mother goose] Joseph Martin Kronheim
legal [research] Brooke Wentz
legal [research] Elias Savada
legal [research] Karen A. Pals
legal [research] Rosemary Carroll
liner notes Natalie Merchant
liner notes [quote] Mother Goose
management [studio manager, the clubhouse] Paul Antonell
mastered by [mastering engineer] Bob Ludwig
mixed by [assistant engineer] Elijah Walker II
mixed by [mix engineer] Steve Rosenthal
mixed by [second assistant engineer] Brian Thorn
mixed by [second assistant engineer] Kabir Hermon
photography by [christina rossetti] Elliott & Fry
photography by [cover photograph] Mark Seliger
photography by [e. e. cummings] Edward Weston
photography by [gerard manley hopkins] Forshaw And Coles
photography by [john godfrey saxe, lydia huntley sigourney] Matthew Brady
photography by [mervyn peake] Sebastian Peake
photography by [page 2] Marion Ettlinger
photography by [page 80] Mark Seliger
photography by [photo restoration] Sebastian Wintermute
photography by [rachel field photograph] Ben Pinchot
photography by [robert louis stevenson] Charles L. Ritzmann
producer Andres Levin
producer Natalie Merchant
product manager [production manager for nonesuch records] Arthur Moorhead
public relations [publicity] Carla Sacks
public relations [publicity] Matthew Rankin
recorded by [recording engineer] Nick Wollage
recording supervisor [production supervisor for nonesuch records] Karina Beznicki
research [biographical] Anna Eyre
research [biographical] Ella Reily Stocker
research [biographical] Erin Casey
research [biographical] Kathie Pitman
research [photo researcher], coordinator [licensing] Sarah Cullen
Phonographic Copyright (p) Big City Sister, Inc.
Copyright (c) Big City Sister, Inc.
Licensed To Nonesuch Records Inc.
Licensed To WEA International Inc.
Record Company Warner Music Group
Recorded At Avatar Studios
Recorded At Legacy Recording Studios
Recorded At Sound Kitchen
Mixed At The Magic Shop
Mastered At Gateway Mastering
Copyright (c) Molly Castle Music
Pressed By Cinram, Olyphant, PA
Pressed By Cinram, Olyphant, PA
80-page mediabook in a slipcase.

All songs composed by Natalie Merchant with text by various poets.

Nursery Rhyme of Innocense and Experience, composed by Natalie Merchant incorporating words from Nursery Rhyme of Innocense and Experience written by Charles Causley.
Text from the poem Bleezer's Ice-Cream in 'The New Kid on the Block', text copyright © 1984 by Jack Prelutsky, used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
It Makes a Change, composed by Natalie Merchant incorporating words from It Makes a Change, written by Mervyn Peake.
maggie and milly and molly and may contains the poem maggie and milly and molly and may, written by E. E. Cummings © 1956, 1984, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from 'Complete Poems: 1904-1962', edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Adventures of Isabel, by Ogden Nash, used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd., copyright © 1936, all rights reserved.
The Janitor's Boy contains the poem The Janitor's Boy, written by Nathalia Crane © 1924 Nathalia Crane.
Griselda, composed by Nathalia Merchant incorporating words from Griselda, written by Eleanor Farjeon.
The words of Vain and Careless are set to music and reproduced by permission of A P Watt on behalf of the Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust.

Meridian Arts Ensemble appears courtesy of Channel Classical Records and Eight Ball Records.
Wynton Marsalis appears courtesy of [l49620].
Michael Leonhart appears courtesy of [l6353].
Hazmat Modine appears courtesy of [l80243].
Clark Gayton appears courtesy of Ritual Ltd.
Victor Goines appears courtesy of Rosemary Joseph Records.
Wycliffe Gordon appears courtesy of [l904905].

Recording Studio: The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, N Y
Additional recording at Avatar Studios, New York, N Y; Legacy Recording Studios, New York, N Y; and The Sound Kitchen, Nashville, T N
Mix Studio: The Magic Shop
Mastering Studio: Gateway Mastering Studios

For songs 1.1, 1.4-1.5, 9, 2.1, 2.4-2.5: Music © 2009 Molly Castle Music (ASCAP).
For all other songs: Music © 2009 Molly Castle Music (ASCAP) and Words Public Domain.

Booklet:
Nonesuch Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104.
℗ & © 2010 Big City Sister, Inc. Exclusively licensed to Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

Back cover:
℗ 2010 Big City Sister, Inc. Exclusively licensed to Nonesuch Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company.
Made in the U.S.A.
Barcode: 0 75597 98043 1 (Text)
Barcode: 075597980431
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