A Book of Nonsense

6 best books like A Book of Nonsense (Edward Lear): A Child's Garden of Verses, Haunted House, If I Ever Get Out of Here, The Collected Poems, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Monkey King: Birth of the Stone Monkey

A Child's Garden of Verses
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN0689823827
Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...
AuthorJan Pieńkowski
ISBN1844288749
Revisit – if you dare! – one of the best-loved pop-up books of all time, now more gleefully ghoulish then ever with the addition of several spooky surprises.

Come in, Doctor. Yes, it is a quaint old place - chilly, though...

The owner of the Haunted House is unwell, and it's not surprising....
If I Ever Get Out of Here
AuthorEric Gansworth
ISBN0545417309
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
AuthorThomas Hughes
ISBN0192835351
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



Boarding Schools: "Tom Brown's Schooldays" by Thomas Hughes



(Original Review, 1981-01-22)



The issue of class and elitism (subjects dear to my heart) are, paradoxically, less important...
Monkey King: Birth of the Stone Monkey
AuthorWei Dong Chen
ISBN8994208453
'The Monkey King' follows the adventures of Sun Wu Kong, born from a stone on Spring Mountain who seeks to learn the secret of eternal life. Wu Kong possesses immense strength and is supremely fast. He knows 72 transformations allowing him to turn into various animals and objects but has trouble changing...
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