Akron Public Library

Describes various beds that are much more interesting than beds for sleeping, such as a jet-propelled bed, snack bed, pocket-size bed, and bounceable bed.

Captivated by Edward Lear's poem, a boy and girl turn into the owl and the pussycat and set sail in a pea green boat for The Land Where the Bong Tree Grows.

A collection of humorous and nonsense verses on various themes.

A collection of silly and amusing poems by American and English writers.

The accidental ingestion of a fly leads an old lady to swallow larger and larger animals, ending with a horse that causes her ultimate demise.

Describes in verse such unusual birds as the shuttercluck, the milkbottle midge, the waterglass goose, and the highbutton bobolink.

An illustrated collection of twenty poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet and novelist, Edward Lear, with commentary and definitions of unfamiliar words. Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

An illustrated version of the classic nonsense poem from "Through the Looking Glass"where an African American basketball player triumphs over the Jabberwocky.

A collection of nursery rhymes and nonsense rhymes.