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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:
Nonsense Songs (1900)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1901)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright
Grimm Tales Made Gay (1902)
Guy Wetmore Carryl brings his gift for comic verse to fairy tales. Read online at archive. org.
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Albert Levering
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1902)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
The Visit to London (1902)
Poems and pictures of a visit to London.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems (1903)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright
Johnny Crow’s Garden: A Picture Book (1903)
Author(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Original Poems and Others (1903)
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and many other poems. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Adelaide O’Keeffe
Ann Taylor
Jane Taylor
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The One Hoss Shay with its Companion Poems (1905)
The wonderful one hoss shay. It ran for a hundred years to a day. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)
Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Another Book of Verses for Children (1907)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Cautionary Tales for Children: Verses (1907)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
Johnny Crow’s Party: Another Picture Book (1907)
Johnny summons his friends to a garden party. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Old Fashioned Stories and Poems Volume VI (1907)
An anthology from the early part of the twentieth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Walter Crane
Et al
Poems and Rhymes (1907)
A collection of poems with illustrations by many artists. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Howard Pyle
E. Boyd Smith
Et al
The Globe By the Way Book (1908)
Early newpaper columns by the master.
Author(s):
Herbert Westbrook
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
W. K. Haselden
A Child’s Book of Old Verses (1910)
An anthology of verse for children. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Truth About Old King Cole and Other Very Natural Histories (1910)
A collection of verse, not quite nonsensical.
Author(s):
George F. Hill
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (1911)
Author(s):
Francis Turner Palgrave
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish