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Nonsense Genre
Books in the Nonsense genre:
How to Break Away and Go to the Rootabaga Country (1922)
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
More Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man (1922)
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Rootabaga Stories (1922)
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes (1922)
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Rootabaga Pigeons (1923)
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Porridge Poetry (1924)
A collection of poems for children by the author of the Doctor Dolittle books.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1926)
This is a facsimile of a nonsense alphabet originally written in 1849. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, etc. (1927)
Selections from Lear, mainly nonsense alphabets and botany.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A New Book of Sense and Nonsense (1928)
A collection of nonsense stories for older readers.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
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Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck (1930)
Those two peculiar creatures from the shores of the Bay of Fundy go adventuring in the Marie Celeste.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Junket is Nice (1933)
An old man has people guess what he is thinking about as he eats junket.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Nonsense Songs & Laughable Lyrics (1935)
There were several versions of this collection which includes ‘The Scroobius Pip’ and ‘The Little Mouse.’
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic (1936)
Author(s):
Beatrice Curtis Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
More About Jonathan Bing (1936)
Author(s):
Beatrice Curtis Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1937)
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Ninon MacKnight
John Tenniel
And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937)
The Castle Number Nine (1937)
Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Princess and the Apple Tree: And Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories, mainly about young children, verging on nonsense.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Edgar: The 7:58 (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Streamlined Pig (1938)
When floods threaten the rich boy’s farm, he hires a fleet of airplanes to rescue the animals.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese