humorous poetry

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humorous poetry

The Big little golden book of funny poems

  • Lemerise, Bruce
1987
A collection of short humorous poems by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Arnold Lobel, Jack Prelutsky, and Edward Lear.

Oh, what nonsense!

  • Cole, William
1990
An array of witty verse from a variety of authors, including John Ciardi, Theodore Roethke, and Laura E. Richards.

More ballpoint bananas

  • Shortall, Leonard W
1977
A collection of jokes, riddles, taunts, teases, and rhymes illustrated with line drawings.

Green eggs and ham

The Cat in the Hat
  • Messecar, Ray
1994
In the first story Sam-I-am tries to convince others that green eggs and ham is a good breakfast. In the second the cat in the hat comes to entertain one rainy day when mother is not home and creates all sorts of trouble.

I hope I don't strike out!

and other funny sports poems
  • Carpenter, Stephen
2008
A collection of humorous poems about kids and sports.

A hippopotamusn't

and other animal verses
  • Lewis, J. Patrick
1994
More than thirty mostly humorous poems about a variety of animals.

Marquerite, go wash your feet

  • Tripp, Wallace
1985
A collection of amusing verses by a variety of poets, including Emily Dickinson, Spike Milligan, Shakespeare, and others less well known.

Say it my way

how to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken English, together with a decidedly informal history of how our language rose (or fell)
  • Espy, Willard R
1981

Beastly feasts!

a mischievous menagerie in rhyme
  • Forbes, Robert L
2007
A collection of forty illustrated poems by American poet Robert Forbes and master caricaturist Ronald Searle.

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