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Poetry for Young People

American Poetry
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.
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My tang's tungled and other ridiculous situations

humorous poems
1973
A collection of humorous and nonsense poems by well-known writers.

Read, recite, and write limericks

Introduces young students to limerick poetry, discussing the differences between limericks versus different kinds of poetry, as well as how to write a limerick.

The complete nonsense book of Edward Lear

1951
A complete collection of Edward Lear's limericks, wacky verses, and nonsense alphabets.

Limericks

2015
Introduces limerick poetry.

Something sure smells around here

limericks
2015
A collection of illustrated limericks for children.

The mammoth book of limericks

2008
Contains almost two thousand limericks from Edward Lear, Isaac Asimov, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, William Shakespeare, Ogden Nash, and many others.

The complete limerick book

the origin, history, and achievements of the limerick, with about 350 selected examples
1974

An eye for elephants

1970
Dozens of limericks about elephants, all based on the children's rhyme: I asked my mother for fifty cents/To see the elephant jump the fence.

The grouch and the tower and other sillies

1977
A collection of limericks, brief stories, puns, and cartoons.

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