The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse
Title | The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Guinness |
Publisher | Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | 9781857155143 |
Wonderful collection of nonsense verse, from Chesterton to Dahl, Lear to Carroll.With beautitul, original illustrations, both full colour and black & white.
A Book of Nonsense
Title | A Book of Nonsense PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | Children's poetry, English |
ISBN |
A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense
Title | Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0141956690 |
The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'The Mock Turtle's Song', 'Father William' and many more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction by Gillian Beer that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay and the relationship of his poetry with the Alice books 'Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical' - Times Literary Supplement Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in 1898. Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).
Sleepy Ida and Other Nonsense Poems
Title | Sleepy Ida and Other Nonsense Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Kroll |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780394832524 |
Humorous poems with titles such as, "The Enormous Pile," "Nose," "My Grandmother's Gold Teeth," and "Sleepy Ida."
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming
Title | I'm Just No Good at Rhyming PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Harris |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2017-09-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316266590 |
The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be." Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from bestselling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, bestselling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven! "Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged--and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" --Judith Viorst, bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Nonsense Poems for Kids
Title | Nonsense Poems for Kids PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2020-03-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9782902718115 |
This picture book holds 40 of Edward Lear's limericks.
Nonsense Poems
Title | Nonsense Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2012-12-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0486310612 |
Over 90 delightful limericks and 12 longer poems, including such classics as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," "The Jumblies," and "Calico Pie," all accompanied by Lear's amusing illustrations.