nonsense verses, american

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nonsense verses, american

The ice-cream cone coot

and other rare birds
1971
Describes in verse such unusual birds as the shuttercluck, the milkbottle midge, the waterglass goose, and the highbutton bobolink.

One winter night in August, and other nonsense jingles

1975
More than fifty nonsense rhymes about a people-eating giant snail, exploding gravy, a witch, a dragon, and other topics.

Ghastlies, goops & pincushions

nonsense verse
1989
A collection of nonsense poems describing a variety of unlikely characters and situations.

Scranimals

poems
2002
A series of poems leads readers through a land where vegetables, flowers, and animals are all scrambled together.

Not so true stories & unreasonable rhymes

2004
Presents fourteen nonsense rhymes with colorful cut-paper illustrations, featuring such characters as Mr. Mean, Lovely Lucy Lemonhead, and best friends Goldie Fish and Wiley Croc.

Get out of the alphabet, Number 2!

wacky Wednesday puzzle poems
1997
Ms. Churn's class makes up silly poems mixing up letters and numbers.

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