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The Kingfisher book of funny poems / selected by Roger McGough ; illustrated by Caroline Holden
- Additional Titles
- Funny poems
- Published
- New York : Kingfisher, 2002.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators
- McGough, Roger and Holden, Caroline
- Contents
- Some people never learn. The Leader / Roger McGough -- Look out! / Max Fatchen -- Wahtif / Shel Silverstein -- Distracted the mother said to her boy / Gregory Harrison -- Supply teacher / Allan Ahlberg -- The hero / Robert Graves -- Shirley said / Denis Doyle -- Questions / Peter Dixon -- The Answers / Robert Clairmont -- Picking teams / Allan Ahlberg -- Come on in the water's lovely / Gareth Owen -- Today is very boring / Jack Prelutsky -- Colour of my dreams / Peter Dixon -- A poem / Richard Meltzer -- There are not enough of us / Adrian Mitchell -- OIC / Anonymous -- Arithmetickle / DOuglas Florian -- The Traditional grammarian as poet / Ted Hipple -- Xmas for the boys / Gavin Ewart -- Streemin / Roger McGough -- Robinson Crusoe / Maurice Sagoff -- I did a bad thing once/ Allan Ahlberg -- Report card / Douglas Florian -- What I found in my desk / Bruce Lansky -- Down by the school gate / Wes Magee -- Homework! Oh, homework! / Jack Prelutsky -- Why my homework is missing / Douglas Florian -- Faraway places. New sights / Anonymous -- On the ning nang nong / Keith Bosley -- There was a youn girl of Asturias / Anonymous -- There was an old person of Fratton / Anonymous -- Of pygmies, palms, and pirates / Mervyn Peake -- O'er seas that have no beaches / Mervyn Peake -- 'Twas in the month of Liverpool / Anonymous -- The blue room / Richard Edwards -- Shed in space / Gareth Owens -- Billy the kid / Anonymous -- Went to the river / Anonymous -- Good beds / Richard Florian -- Bad beds / Richard Florian -- I've taken to my bed / Roger McGough -- At the Housefly Planet / Christian Morgenstern -- On some other planet / John Rice -- Nutty nursery rhymes / Max Fatchen -- The owl and the astronaut / Gareth Owen -- Sky in the pie! / Roger McGough -- Fair warnings. O's / Doug Macleod -- Kitty / Colin West -- Kenneth / Wendy Cope -- The cruel naughty boy / William Cole -- Floradora Doe / Jack Prelutsky -- The Rubber plant speaks / Jan Dean -- Mafia cats / Roger McGough -- The tiger / Edward Lucie-Smith -- A lady born under a curse / Edward Gorey -- The pretty young thing / Anonymous -- What's the matter up there? / Carl Sandburg -- Lo! The drum-major / Amborse Bierce -- Uncle James / Margaret Mahy -- Don't-care / Anonymous -- Matilds / Hilaire Belloc -- TV / Eve Merriam -- The python / Hilaire Belloc -- That'll be all right you'll find / L. de Guberne Sieveking -- Quiet fun / Harry Graham -- Our doggy / Stevie Smith -- Advice to children / Roy Fuller -- The itch / Michael Rosen -- Advice to grown ups and other animals / Mike Harding -- My obnoxious brother / Colin West -- My last nature walk / Adrian Mitchell -- Chew on this. The friendly cinnamon bun / Russell Hoban -- Funny honey / Douglas Florian -- I'd like to be a teabag / Peter Dixon -- Rattlesnake meat / Ogden Nash -- Rhinoceros stew / Mildred Luton -- Vegetarians / Roger McGough -- Banana / Brian McCabe -- The prune / Robert Shure -- The hardest thing to do in the world / Michael Rosen / Mashed potato/Love poem / Sidney Hoddes -- If you're no good at cooking / Kit Wright -- Greedyguts / Kim Wright -- I'd rather be a sausage / Billy Connolly -- Cockroach sandwich / Colin McNaughton -- Untitled / Anthony Browne -- Like a beacon / Grace Nichols -- Hands, knees, and bumps. Uncle Ed's heads / Ogden Nash -- Marvo / David Wood -- Easy money / Roger McGough -- This is the hand / Michael Rosen -- Five little brothers / Anonymous -- Lost contact / William Cole -- Contact lenses / John Hegley -- A blink / Jacqueline Segal -- Wink / Roger McGough -- Limbo dancer's soundpoem / John Agard -- Oh to be / Mike Griffin -- When to cut your fingernails / Roger McGough -- Marigolds / Adrian Henri -- Norman Norton's nostrils / Colin West -- The Sniffle / Ogden Nash -- The sniffle / Christian Morgenstern -- Job Satisfaction / John Collis -- The battle / Edward Lowbury -- Night starvation / Carey Blyton -- Intelligence test / Vernon Scannell -- Ears / Max Fatchen -- A handsome young fellow called Frears / M.
- Summary
- A collection of over 200 poems, limericks, and verses from such authors as Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Shel Silverstein, compiled by a British poet and broadcaster.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0753454807
9780753454800 - Collection
- Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.
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