nonsense verses

A collection of humorous poetry and explains how to explore a poems's meaning and the techniques that poets use to create an effect.

Nina and Nolan learn about poetry concepts such as alliteration, meter, and rhyme and with it create nonsense poetry. Includes creative writing exercises to assist the reader in writing nonsense poems.

Collects and illustrates twenty-five poems by American authors including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Scott Key, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Carl Sandburg and Olive Wendell Holmes. Includes poem introductions and notes.

Presents a reading of Sims Taback's Caldecott Medal book in which the accidental ingestion of a fly leads an old lady to swallow larger and larger animals, ending with a horse.

While at sea in a pea-green boat, the Owl and the Pussycat decide to get married.

Contains three modern fables in verse: "Yertle the turtle, " "Gertrude McFuzz, " and "The big brag.".

With fun facts and real-life connections, shares goofy tongue twisters.

A young traveler bound for Solla Sollew runs into many difficulties on the way.

After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a pirate swallows a treasure map, while two children lead the reader through the adventure which becomes a ride at the amusement park.