nonsense verses

A collection of nonsense rhymes record various unlikely situations.

Each of a child's succeeding activities brings on another silly thought.

Presents all of "nonsense" poet Edward Lear's limericks and other poems along with his many of his illustrated alphabets, stories, and letters, and includes a biographical introduction, a chronology, a further reading list, and W. H. Auden's verse tribute to the author.

A collection of whimsical stories and poems about such creatures as a word wizard, a poetical cat, and a very small ghost who lives inside a book.

Speculates in verse on the many ways the world could be turned upside down, inside out, and otherwise mixed up.

Collects notable nonsense in the English language, most of it in poetry.

Presents "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish," a story-poem about the activities of such unusual animals as the Nook, Wump, Yink, Yop, Gack, and Zeds; "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!", a celebration of the imagination; and "The Foot Book," a collection of opposites.

Sam-I-Am tries to determine under what circumstances the old man will eat ham and green eggs.

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a shell, a crab, a fish, a gull, a pail, some sand, and a wave.

A collection of easy-to-read tongue twisters.