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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat (1969)
The Quangle Wangle lives in the top of the Crumpetty tree.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Helen Oxenbury
A Riot of Quiet (1969)
Author(s):
Virginia Sicotte
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Digging for China (1970)
A little boy decides to dig a hole to China. Beautifully illustrated by William Pène du Bois.
Author(s):
Richard Wilbur
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Isle of Gramarye (1970)
An anthology of the poetry of magic.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Orchestra Mice (1970)
Clarissa and Stan Mouse raise a family of twelve musician mice.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Morrow
City Poems (1971)
A collection of the author’s poems about city life.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Complete Poems for Children (1973)
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1973)
The object of this collection is "to make available in one place the classics of children's poetry: that small satchelful of verse whose existence constitutes one of the pleasing advantages of being born to the English tongue."
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Let’s Marry Said the Cherry, and Other Nonsense Poems (1974)
A collection of nonsense poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
There was an Old Woman (1974)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
A Book of Bosh (1975)
An anthology of lyrics and prose.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Lear in the Original (1975)
A collection of original artwork for the Nonsense books, with a few miscellaneous sketches.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
More Prefabulous Animiles (1975)
Poems about fantastical animals.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Yak, the Python and the Frog (1975)
Some little-known facts are revealed that will be useful for those thinking of choosing an exotic pet.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1976)
The Bellman, the Baker and their friends go in pursuit of the elusive Snark and, unfortunately, find one -- it’s a Boojum you see.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear and Other Nonsense Poems (1976)
A collection of nonsense poems illustrated by the author.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Steven Kellogg’s Yankee Doodle (1976)
The famous Revolutionary War song.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Bangs
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Blueberries Lavender: Songs of the Farmers’ Children (1977)
A collection of poems about life on the farm.
Author(s):
Nancy Dingman Watson
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
One Old Oxford Ox (1977)
A tongue-twisting counting rhyme.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (1977)
Six stories and poems with a different illustrator for each on the subject of ‘impossible.’
Author(s):
Norma Farber
Illustrator(s):
And others
Tomie dePaola
Trina Schart Hyman
Hilary Knight