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Nonsense Genre
Books in the Nonsense genre:
The Sun and The Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Wind on the Moon: A Story for Children (1944)
Dinah and Dorinda determine to be naughty while their father is away.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck in the Air (1946)
Further adventures of the two peculiar creatures from the shores of the Bay of Fundy.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
W. C. Nims
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Barnett Freedman
Edward Lear
The Seaweed Hat (1947)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)
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):
Pauline Baynes
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1951)
An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c., and Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)
Teapots and Quails, and Other New Nonsense (1953)
New nonsense from the master, taken from his unpublished works.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Drawing Book Alphabet (1954)
One of Lear’s previously unpublished comic alphabets.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Cat Came Fiddling (1956)
A collection of fifty-seven traditional nursery rhymes set to music.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Paul Kapp
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
The Duck and the Kangaroo (1956)
This is a facsimile of an autograph in the Harvard Library Lear collection.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Oddity Land (1957)
A collection of nonsense verse.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Anthony
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Was it a Good Trade? (1957)
A little man trades his knife for a wife and a cake for a rake and ...
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Best in Children’s Books Volume 12 (1958)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Peter Spier
John Tenniel
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Upside-Down Town (1958)
As you might guess, everything is upside-down in this strange town, but the inhabitants seem to enjoy it.
Author(s):
F. Emerson Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Best in Children’s Books Volume 25 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 38 (1960)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, many of which have new illustrations.
The Owl and the Pussy Cat (1961)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat set out to sea with some honey and plenty of money, but where is the ring and the runcible spoon?
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois