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Ogden Nash's Zoo

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I look forward to these verses again and again. Unlike most bedtime stories, you can set the length of reading time to your situation. the humor stimulates your imagination and makes you want to add verses. Just lots of fun!

Ogden Nash is my favorite poet, and I probably like his poems on different animals the most. They're quicker. Quick poems are prefferred by me, because they don't take too long to read and I can sit and think about them, and even feel like reading them again. Here's one, and I didn't write it, Ogden Nash did:

The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious
So what?
Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?

A collection of animal poems, for anyone who thinks animals are funny!

At the risk of seeming rash
I recommend this book by Nash.
I haven't found a rhyme for Ogden,
Although I came close once when fogged-in.

By the way this book is NOT by Etienne Delessert, as listed above, although he is the illustrious illustrator.

Excellent addition to children's library. Will please animal lovers. The book has short verses for every letter of the alphabet. Great for expanding parents and kids vocabulary.

As a parent, I enjoy Mr. Nash's poetry and writing in works like Belinda and Custard the Dragon. Zoo is bit wanting for me. For example, Nash spends a whole page of the book on Rabbits:

"Here's a verse about rabbits,
that doesn't mention their habits."

Uh yea, okay - and that's it for the page. Maybe I'm too obtuse to get it, but I don't think it particularly clever. And now I have to try to explain the couplet and its allusion to a child.

How about these other profound examples (that take up whole pages):

"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
one end is moo, the other, milk."

"In the world of mules,
there are no rules."

There are a couple chuckles in there, but nothing so very outstanding that one must search this "treasure" out amongst the ancient tomes of a used bookseller.

"I kind of like the playful porpoise,
a healthy mind in a healthy corpus.
He and his cousin, the playful dolphin,
Why they like swimmin like I like golphin."

Egads!

(Frederic) Ogden Nash born in Rye, New York, on August 19, 1902.
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 19, 1971

I unique advantages Ogden has was not needing to have a riming dictionary. If the appropriate word did not appear, he would appropriate a word.

This book is a great collection of be best of Ogden as he observed Zoo life.
Least we overlook the addition of Illustrations by the famous Swiss artist, sculptor, illustrator and animator, Etienne Delessert.

(Frederic) Ogden Nash born in Rye, New York, on August 19, 1902.
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 19, 1971

I unique advantages Ogden has was not needing to have a riming dictionary. If the appropriate word did not appear, he would appropriate a word.

This book is a great collection of be best of Ogden as he observed Zoo life.
Least we overlook the addition of Illustrations by the famous Swiss artist, sculptor, illustrator and animator, Etienne Delessert.