Nonsense!
A selection of nonsense verses, each beginning with the phrase "There was an old. . ." or "There was a young. . .," with photographic illustrations.
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
c2004.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | A selection of nonsense verses, each beginning with the phrase "There was an old. . ." or "There was a young. . .," with photographic illustrations. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | "An Anne Schwartz book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0689863802 (lib. bdg.) |
| Author Notes: | In addition to his limericks, he created longer nonsense poems. The best---and best known---is The Jumblies, in which the title characters go to sea in a sieve; it is a brilliant, profound, silly, and sad expression of the need to leave the security of the known world and experience the wonder and danger of the unknown. His other most notable work is The Owl and the Pussy Cat, a less complex poem whose title characters also go to sea. Lear produced humorous alphabets and botany books as well. His wordplay, involving puns, neologisms, portmanteau words, and anticlimax, retains its vitality today and has influenced such contemporary writers of children's nonsense verse as Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Laura Richards (Bowker Author Biography) |
