The Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories PDF Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780140382136
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book contains a collection of extracts and short stories from authors such as Clement Freud, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. With new illustrations.

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories PDF Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780140382136
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This book contains a collection of extracts and short stories from authors such as Clement Freud, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. With new illustrations.

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse PDF Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961708
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Ever eaten Poodle Strudel? Slain a Jabberwock? Bathed in Irish Stew? Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children’s illustrators. In this brilliant book he has selected and illustrated his favourite comic verse, making it pure entertainment for nonsense-lovers of all ages. His unique style of drawing brings a new perspective to every poem. Classic writers such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are combined with more contemporary talents such as Roger McGough, Margaret Mahy and Russell Hoban. With fifteen wonderfully absurd sections, including Distracting Creatures, Sticky Ends, I Wish I Were a Jelly Fish, A Recipe for Indigestion and Chortling and Galumphing, here is a delightful collection of the topsy-turvy, the fantastical, the anarchic, the illogical and the utterly wonderful.

The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse

The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse PDF Author: Louise Guinness
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1400044251
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This hilariously readable collection of classic nonsense poetry, delightfully illustrated throughout, is a showcase of comic talent and sheer silliness. The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse features an eclectic spectrum of contributors ranging wildly from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Hilaire Belloc, Ted Hughes, Ogden Nash, and Shakespeare, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake, Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark, Spike Milligan, and the deliciously sinister Edward Gorey. Such old favorites as “The Owl and the Pussycat” are accompanied by “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” and “Jabberwocky,” while Ted Hughes’s “Wodwo” sits alone by the bank of a stream in a state of innocence and curiosity that mirrors a child’s sense of wonder at the universe. Whether sweetly funny or deliciously naughty, these masterpieces of the art of the absurd will charm readers both young and old.

The Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse

The Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse PDF Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140587579
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Collection of nonsense verse by a variety of authors including Ogden Nash, Roald Dahl, and Lewis Carroll, compiled by illustrator Quentin Blake.

THIS BOOK MAKES NO SENSE

THIS BOOK MAKES NO SENSE PDF Author: Michael Heyman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788184778434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Book of Nonsense

Book of Nonsense PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447481445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Edward Lear's much celebrated book of nonsense is here reproduced with all the original pictures and verse and two autobiographical letters by the author. Children and adults alike will delight in the Limerick's that here abound. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Pocketful of Nonsense

Pocketful of Nonsense PDF Author: James Marshall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618341863
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense PDF Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141956690
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'The Mock Turtle's Song', 'Father William' and many more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction by Gillian Beer that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay and the relationship of his poetry with the Alice books 'Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical' - Times Literary Supplement Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in 1898. Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).

The Nonsense Show

The Nonsense Show PDF Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399176888
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Silliness takes center stage in this laugh-out-loud book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar?--now available as a board book! Yes, there’s something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it’s not a mistake – it’s nonsense! Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like “the cow jumped over the moon” and “the dish ran away with the spoon.” This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. What’s true? What’s impossible? What’s absolutely absurd? From Eric Carle, creator of the classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes a book to make children laugh and think, preparing them for a lifetime of loving both words and art. Praise for The Nonsense Show A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! * "Carle creates fun and laughter in this homage to the surrealist artist René Magritte. [P]erfect for storytimes and silly times all round. Carle hits it out of the nonsense park!"–Booklist, starred review * "A sure hit as a read-aloud and a definite purchase for picture book collections."–School Library Journal, starred review * "A picture book made to incite pleasure and joy."–Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "[The Nonsense Show], with its cleanly designed white pages, makes the unexpected elements of the imagery stand out and prompts questions and wonder."–Horn Book, starred review

Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories

Puffin Book of Nonsense Stories PDF Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613715249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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"In a village near the highest part of England lived a boy made of raspberry jelly..". And so begins one of the many deliciously nonsensical stories selected and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Nonsense lovers of all ages will relish this riot of absurd tales. Many of the nonsense greats, such as Lewis Carroll, James Thurber, and Edward Lear, are featured, plus some wonderful surprises, including pieces by Jane Austen, Noel Coward, and Evelyn Waugh. From Roald Dahl's "Violet and the Chewing Gum" to Carl Sandburg's "How Gimme the Ax Found Out about the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag", these are gems of incomparable silliness.