Best-selling children's author Kaye Umansky and well-loved illustrator Chris Fisher have teamed up again to produce the latest in the Nonsense Rhymes series. There are poems about, amongst others, a chess-playing cheetah, a wolf called Keith and a gorilla who eats vanilla ice-cream! The funny, colourful illustrations capture the humour in the poems as well as they did in the previous two books in the series. Kaye Umansky's first book, Pongwiffy, won the Nottinghamshire Book Award and has sold over 150,000 copies. She has written and published picture books, song books, rhymes and novels for Puffin, Bodley Head, HarperCollins, Hodder, A and C Black and the BBC. Kaye has also won The Times EducationalSupplement Award for Junior Music Book of the Year. Chris Fisher is well-known for his vivid, lively illustrative style, and has illustrated over 40 titles for Walker Books, Hodder, Puffin, Scholastic and HarperCollins.

Here’s a sneak look at who’s inside and what they get up to. ALLIGATORS—a sort of joining BUSTARD—big bird, no taste CATBIRD—a bird that eats cats? DOG—a sad hound story EEL, SEAL—no dinner today FISH (Grouper)—an awful mistake GUMMY SHARK—beware! HORSE, GOAT—a mixed marriage INVERTEBRATES—let’s hear it for the little guys! JACKRABBIT—making a monk of himself KANGAROO—(don’t tell Mama, this one’s naughty) LORIS—a sort of Dinosaur? MICE—what the farmer’s wife didn’t know . . . or did she? NEWT—an unpleasant event OWL—a horror movie PUFFERFISH—an overblown reputation QUAIL, RAIL—seeking the Holy Grail RETRIEVER—a love story SPIDER—watch what you drink, Miss Muffet! TRITON, CHITON (Mollusks)—sparring partners UROCHORDATE (Sea Squirt)—this story goes nowhere VARANUS (Lizard)—a fairy wizard saves her life! WORM—size matters XENOPUS (Frog)—a repaired blow-up YETI—the very first spelled word! ZIPHIUS (Whale) + Friends—whale mail AT THE ZOO—a field trip for you

Here are just a few of the Animal Rhyme stories inside: ANOLE LIZARD becomes a Pig. BORZOI Puppy is a riot. CHINCHILLA has a Pet GORILLA. GNUS steal shoes! MOA didn’t make it to Noah’s Ark. TORTOISE dreams of being a Ninja athlete. WHALE ‘drops out’ and regrets it. ZINGEL FISH meets Santa in my dreams.

Children's poet Richard Edwards has created his own irreverent versions of traditional nursery rhymes and has set them into an A to Z framework. This mix of traditional and modern rhyme, and nonsense verse, accompanied by Chris Fisher's humorous illustrations, will make learning the alphabet an entertaining experience for children, parents and teachers.Richard Edwards is a well-known children's author. He has published over 20 titles in the UK and US, mainly poetry and picture books for a number of publishers including Walker Books, Viking, Puffin, and Faber and Faber. He is also the author of Fly with the Birds and Nonsense Christams Rhymes for OUP.Chris Fisher has illustrated all the books in the Nonsense series and they have been very well received in the trade. He is well-known for his vivid, lively illustrative style, and has illustrated over 40 titles for Walker Books, Hodder, Puffin, Scholastic and HarperCollins.

I'm a troll (Troll, troll!), I lives beneath! (Splash, splash!), I rolls me eyes! (Roll, roll), I gnash me teeth (Gnash, gnash!). Here are eighteen nonsense rhymes including the wonderful troll song, the hilarious lonely hearts column from the princess to the frog and the poem in which Rapunzel is desperate for people to stop using her hair as a ladder. Other characters featured in the book include Rumpelstiltskin, Aladdin, Goldilocks, Cinderella, the Ugly Duckling, and the Gingerbread Boy. Children will love seeing familiar fairytale characters in nonsensical situations and will enjoy the detailed and lively colour illustrations on every page. With strong rhymes throughout, this book is perfect for reading aloud.

Presents more than twenty simple animal jokes.