Twenty-one limericks selected for special appeal to young people, one large full-page illustration to a verse. "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!/ Who has written such volumes of stuff / Some think him ill-tempered and queer,/ But a few think him pleasant enough.".
Includes The Owl and the Pussycat, Calico Pie, The Duck and the Kangaroo, The Quangle Wangle's Hat, The Table and the Chair, Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow, and The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs.
