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Pocketful of Nonsense

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My son (age 5) loves this book. We have to read it to him at least once a week for the past 6 months. He memorized all, but keep laughing every time! The pictures are funny too. It is my son's favorite book (it comes before the Magic Tree House series, which is another favorite).

I love this book, and so do my sons (ages 5 and 13). Funny limericks (clean) and the usual amusing Marshall illustrations with comments. After reading it one afternoon, we sat around making up silly limericks together. Short book but lots of laffs.

My children (ages 7, 5, 4, and 2) all this book! It is full of nonsense--and all of it fun! My husband also loves this book and reads the poems with a great deal of emotion, which creates a great deal of laughter around our house. Love it.

In the 1840s Edward Lear published A Book of Nonsense. This book made the limerick, a form of humorous verse, popular. In 1992 James Marshall published Pocketful of Nonsense which features both limericks and humorous poems. Children will love reciting the twenty amusing poems/limericks from this book. Best read aloud, Pocketful of Nonsense is a great way to teach rhyming to children and have a few laughs at the same time. Includes funny pictures for each story. Highly recommended.