nonsense verses

A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories compiled from folk sources around the country.

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

Presents fifteen nonsense limericks by nineteenth-century English author Edward Lear, accompanied by vivid illustrations.

Presents eighteen whimsical poems about people caught in unusual situations.

A collection of silly and amusing poems by American and English writers.

A collection of twenty-six nonsense rhymes, one for each letter of the alphabet.

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

Old favorites and original works by Marshall make up this collection of humorous rhymes, limericks, and poems.

A collection of poems for children that explore the fantastic world of imagination.

A collection of 236 limericks and other nonsense poems including "The Owl and the Pussycat" as well as "The Nutcrackers and the Sugar Tongs.".