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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous 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
Numbears (1984)
Teddy bears introduce the numbers from one to twelve.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Ready, Teddy, Go! (1984)
A ‘Daisychain’ of cut-out teddy bears and rhyming text.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Rent-a-Robot (1984)
A ‘Daisychain’ featuring six robots with verses.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz
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
Snowy Day: Stories and Poems (1986)
An anthology of poems and stories about snow.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Margot Tomes
Love & the Merry-Go-Round (1988)
This is an anthology of modern poetry for children.
Author(s):
Rosemary Harris
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Mighty Slide (1988)
’The snow has fallen in the night.
The temperature’s exactly right
The playground’s ready, white and wide;
Just waiting for the mighty slide.’
and four other epic poems.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Charlotte Voake
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
Side by Side: Poems to Read Together (1988)
A diverse collection of poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Various
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
A Week of Lullabies (1988)
An anthology of lullabies and bedtime poems grouped by days of the week.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Marisabina Russo
Bear in Mind. A Book of Bear Poems (1989)
This is a collection, informational, humorous and lyrical, about bears.
Author(s):
Bobbye S. Goldstein
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Heard it in the Playground (1989)
Collection of poems for children.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Wenger
Beneath a Blue Umbrella (1990)
Author(s):
Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Engelbert the Elephant (1990)
Author(s):
Tom Paxton
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Mice are Nice (1990)
An anthology of poems about mice.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Edward Lear
A. A. Milne
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Ed Young
Happy Birthday (1991)
A collection of poems on the topic of birthdays.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear (1991)
All the longer nonsense poems.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Owl and the Pussycat (1991)
The Owl and the Pussycat put to sea again, with honey and money and a runcible spoon.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett