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Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash

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Nash's work is too often regarded as light and meaningless; admittedly some of the work is very much "of it's time" now, but it is largely rich, diverse, insightful and wonderfully clever.
The rhymes are complex and intriguing and form great volumes of biting social comment. They are deliciously constructed and achingly funny at times.
Yet he seems to be an almost forgotten "Children's" poet, even if this were the case, are not some writers for Children so good as to far exceed the virtues of those who write for adults?
Rhold Dahl, J K Rowlins, Lewis Carrol and E Nesbitt spring to mind, Nash needs also to be on that hallowed list.
He really should be regarded as an American National treasure!

Being poem-illiterate, this book came by as a pleasant surprise to me.
This book is a collection of light, humurous poems. Most of the poems are about children, but there are poems on other subjects too, like marriage. Children rule the roost though.

Its the kind of book when you glance through your book rack, spot this book, pick it up to read just one poem, but can't put it down until you have re-read all the poems. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to sit back and enjoy a humurous poem peppered with puns. And if you dislike children, this book is written for you.

Its a book that you got to have on your shelf.

I usually dont read poetry. This book was an impulsive buy. It has become one of my most treasured possessions. Given that most bookshops relegate poetry to a dusty out of the way shelf, finding more titles by the poet in India was impossible.

The book is full of funny limmericks, touching poetery and serious emotions expressed in teh most beautiful way.

Buy it and treasure it foreever. I haven't bought any of the other books.... too expensive and they dont ship to India

Nash's verse blends sense and nonsense in a way that all makes sense--with odd observations, words made up or transformed just to make the rhyme scheme, and idiosyncratic metaphors and analogies. Read them aloud, to your parents, your children, your students, your teachers, your friends. You get the idea.

Ogden Nash is a poet
But he doesn't noet

If you love lines that do not bother too much about archaic rules of spelling and poetry, and are out to have fun, then here is a world you cannot miss.

This book is best enjoyed read aloud, with a few friends, with a few drinks:-)

it is a fun read

Nash's little lines are often amusing and sometimes memorable. They are of course light verse and not the kind of poetry which can win a true place in the canon. There is often certain feeling of Brahmin prejudice in them and a sense that many are outdated.