nonsense verses

A selection of poems and limericks by Edward Lear, including "The Quangle Wangle's Hat," "The Pelican Chorus," and "The Courtship of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.".

Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.

Young Morris McGurk imagines building a Circus McGurkus with jugglers, clowns, acrobats and more behind Sneelock's Store.

When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.

Horton hears a cry for help from a speck of dust and tries to protect the creatures who live on it from the other animals who think Horton has gone crazy.

Gay, nonsensical poems, for the most part, with a few of great imagination and charm.

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

Captivated by Edward Lear's poem, a boy and girl turn into the owl and the pussycat and set sail in a pea green boat for The Land Where the Bong Tree Grows.

Combines nonsense poems and fanciful illustrations with objects representing each letter of the alphabet.

A collection of traditional and new limericks on a variety of subjects.