The Complete Nonsense Book (Hardcover)

by Edward Lear (Author)

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Product Description
An in-depth volume celebrates a popular and witty children's author, providing a complete collection of his endearing limericks, wacky verses, and nonsense alphabets, and accompanying many with black-and-white illustrations.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Book Sales (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785801685
• ISBN-13: 978-0785801689
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,607,268 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The last word in Nonsense - a timeless classic for children, May 9, 2004

By	Jim Keller (San Antonio,TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Nonsense Book (Paperback)

The Complete Book of Nonsense by Lear is a broad compilation of Limericks, Poems, Ballads and other forms which celebrates the fantasy world of the child. Lear creates simple visions of exaggeration with a man's beard so large as to have birds nesting in it, or some one who's legs were so long as to leap from Turkey to France in one prance. Included also are a number of love stories or stories of devotion such as the exquisite "The Owl and the Pussycat" who went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat.

It is a book which does not make any attempt to cram a moral into a child's mind or teach facts. It makes it's appeal directly to the child's curiosity and fantasy world, illustrated with a unique and charmingly naive yet sophisticated pen and ink drawing style, it delivers enchantment and will fascinate. He speaks their language.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book for the Young and the Young at Heart, June 30, 2008

By	A. F. Coppola "GoodGoogler" (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an absolutely enjoyable book, it is so innocent and charismatic it will take you back to your childhood, it combines excellent rhyme with very creative and dear characters and plots, the original illustrations are also adorable, everyone with a young heart should own this book.