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Nonsense Genre
Books in the Nonsense genre:
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1984)
This is a facsimile of the 1895 edition. It is a collection of poems and stories from the four nonsense books with a few additions.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
As I Was Going Up and Down (1985)
A collection of nonsense nursery rhymes with detailed, colorful and humorous paintings.
Author(s):
Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Ride a Purple Pelican (1986)
Author(s):
Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Bedtime & Moonshine (1987)
A combined edition of Hush-a-bye-Baby and As I Was Going Up and Down.
Author(s):
Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Nonsensus: Cross-Referencing Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense (1988)
The first three editions of A Book of Nonsense are compared to the various original manuscripts. Includes a census of the then-known copies of the two-volume first edition.
Author(s):
Justin G. Schiller
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Beneath a Blue Umbrella (1990)
Author(s):
Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Day the Goose Got Loose (1990)
When the goose got loose, she caused a riot. Nobody ever thought she’d try it!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Reeve Lindbergh
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear (1991)
All the longer nonsense poems.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Trouble with Uncle (1992)
Author(s):
Babette Cole
Illustrator(s):
Babette Cole
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Poems (1995)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. Here they are accompanied by many of the delightful Lear Limericks and some of the longer nonsense poems.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Sleepy Men (1996)
A tale about a Big sleepy man, a Small sleepy man and the Man in the moon.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Rayevsky
A-Hunting We Will Go (1998)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Give the Dog a Bone (2000)
Nick-nack paddywhack, give the dog a bone, this old man came rolling home!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense (2001)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Hilary Knight’s the Owl and the Pussy-Cat (2001)
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Author(s):
Douglas Colby
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets (2009)
Selections from Lear, mainly nonsense alphabets and botany.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (2010)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Are You a Cow? (2013)
A clever chicken narrates a playful inquiry in this charming and hilarious story perfect for Boynton fans new and old.
Author(s):
Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s):
Sandra Boynton
Edward Lear’s Alphabet of Nonsense (2013)
This is a facsimile of the 1862 original.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear