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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:
A Capital Ship or the Walloping Window-Blind (1963)
Nonsense verse on a nautical theme.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
A Christmas Stocking Story (1963)
The animals’ stockings get mixed up in the wash and Santa has to fill them in the dark, but on Christmas day they manage to sort things out.
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Cricket in a Thicket (1963)
A collection of nature poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Aileen Fisher
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Hop on Pop (1963)
More nonsense from Dr. Seuss.
Read online at archive.org.
The Night Before Christmas (1963)
T’was the night before Christmas,
When all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring,
Not even a mouse.
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Alicia in Terra Mirabili (1964)
A Latin translation of the most famous and popular fantasy novel in English.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
ABC: Penned & Illustrated by Edward Lear, Himself (1965)
Another previously unpublished alphabet.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Life I Live: Collected Poems (1965)
The author’s collected poetry.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Aliciae per Speculum Tansitus (1966)
A Latin translation of the sequel to the most famous and popular fantasy novel in English.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
The Good-Byes of Magnus Marmalade (1966)
Magnus lets his true feelings flow in poetry.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Doris Orgel
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Beginning-To-Read Poetry: Selected from Original Sources (1967)
First poems for young children.
Author(s):
Sally Clithero
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Best in Children’s Books Volume 19A (1967)
The Christopher Robin Book of Verse (1967)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Here and There: One Hundred Poems about Places (1967)
An anthology of poems dealing with places, both real and imaginary.
Author(s):
Elinor Parker
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Rhymes of Nonsense: An Alphabet (1968)
This alphabet was written around 1862 and is here first published in facsimile.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Scroobious Pip (1968)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Ogden Nash
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)
Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …
Author(s):
Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
A Child’s Book of Natural History (1969)
This is a collection of humorous verse about members of the animal kingdom.
Author(s):
Margaret Fishback
Oliver Herford
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1969)
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a very popular collection of poems first published in 1913.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone