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Nonsense Genre
Books in the Nonsense genre:
More Rootabagas (1993)
Ten more American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Paul O. Zelinsky
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1993)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1999)
A contemporary Alice by an award-winning illustrator.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Helen Oxenbury
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
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (2002)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets (2009)
Selections from Lear, mainly nonsense alphabets and botany.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011)
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