Nonsense Songs - Hardcover

Lear, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805027742 ISBN 13: 9780805027747

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1993

Synopsis

A new edition of the nineteenth-century classic contains the original text and full-color illustrations, all in a individually slipcased volume.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense works, which use real and invented English words.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 6. Willey's luminous mixed-media illustrations accompany four of Edward Lear's familiar nonsense poems: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "The Jumblies," "The Pobble Who Has No Toes," and "The Quangle Wangle's Hat." These poems are likely to be found in most collections, including Myra Cohn Livingston's How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear! (Holiday, 1982; o.p.) and The Pelican Chorus (HarperCollins, 1995) with Fred Marcellino's masterfully joyous illustrations. However, Willey's quirky style does seem suited to the poet's sort of nonsense. Her Pobble and Jumblies, like Lear's vocabulary, are both outlandish and believable. A book in tune with its subject matter.?Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
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Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805027742
• ISBN 13: 9780805027747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Allen Jonathan
• Number of pages: 128