Poetry

The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse, selected by Quentin Blake
"Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy"
"Department of Facts and Queries"
"I Wish I Were a Jelly Fish"
"Sticky Ends"
"Distracting Creatures"
"A Gamut of Achievements" [the end]

As promised, here are a selection of my favourites from the 127 poems included in this anthology:

Typo by Russell Hoban -- probably my favourite

Eletelephony by Laura Richards

The Purist by Ogden Nash

S F by Ernest Leverett

How I Brought the Good News From Aix to Ghent or, Vice Versa by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night (anonymous)

I Went to the Pictures Tomorrow (playground rhyme)

Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll

Fame Was a Claim of Uncle Ed's by Ogden Nash -- helluva name

O'er Seas That Have No Beaches by Mervyn Peake

A Chronicle (anonymous)

Politeness by Harry Graham

Scientific Proof by J.W. Foley

Waste by Harry Graham.

While we're here -- not only, but also:

I Saw a Peacock (anonymous) -- but only once I realised how it was constructed

Belagcholly Days (anonymous) -- very clever

Bleezer's Ice Cream by Jack Prelutsky

Minnow Minnie by Shel Silverstein

Some Aunts and Uncles by Mervyn Peake

The Ahkond of Swat by Edward Lear

The Willow-tree by William Makepeace Thackeray

Capacity by John Updike

Planting a Mailbox by John Updike

The Cod by Lord Alfred Douglas

Kitty by Colin West

Simple Simon (anonymous)

and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll -- of course.