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PUFFIN BOOKS
OTHER BOOKS BY QUENTIN BLAKE
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
from The World Turned Upside Down – ANONYMOUS
I saw a Peacock – ANONYMOUS
Uptown, Downtown – CLYDE WATSON
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night – ANONYMOUS
I Saw iij Hedles Playen at a Ball – ANONYMOUS
I Went to the Pictures Tomorrow – PLAYGROUND RHYME
Topsyturvey-world – WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS
When I Went Out for a Walk One Day – ANONYMOUS
Sensible Questions – MARGARET MAHY
CHORTLING AND GALUMPHING
Jabberwocky – LEWIS CARROLL
To Marie – ANONYMOUS
Typo – RUSSELL HOBAN
The Lugubrious Whing-whang – JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
Belagcholly Days – ANONYMOUS
A RECIPE FOR INDIGESTION
Dilly Dilly Piccalilli – CLYDE WATSON
Ever Eaten – ROGER MCGOUGH
Bleezer’s Ice-cream – JACK PRELUTSKY
The Remarkable Cake – MARGARET MAHY
‘I’ve Eaten Many Strange and Scrumptious Dishes…’ – ROALD DAHL
Brother and Sister – LEWIS CARROLL
You Must Never Bath in an Irish Stew – SPIKE MILLIGAN
The Friendly Cinnamon Bun – RUSSELL HOBAN
Buttons – WALTER DE LA MARE
The Walrus and the Carpenter – LEWIS CARROLL
Minnow Minnie – SHEL SILVERSTEIN
PORTRAITS FROM LIFE
Fame was a Claim of Uncle Ed’s – OGDEN NASH
from Melodies – LEWIS CARROLL
There was an Old Person of Slough – EDWARD LEAR
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arley – EDWARD LEAR
There was an Old Person in Gray – EDWARD LEAR
Moonshine – WALTER DE LA MARE
Jerry Hall – ANONYMOUS
Some Aunts and Uncles – MERVYN PEAKE
Mrs McPhee – CHARLES CAUSLEY
There was a Mad Man – ANONYMOUS
A FRIEND TO THE CHILDREN
The Yak – HILAIRE BELLOC
A Sunnit to the Big Ox – ANONYMOUS
The Elephant, or The Force of Habit – A. E. HOUSMAN
Eletelephony – LAURA RICHARDS
from The Crocodile or, Public Decency – A. E. HOUSMAN
The Purist – OGDEN NASH
Some Verses to Snaix – ANONYMOUS
S F – ERNEST LEVERETT
The Mad Hatter’s Song – LEWIS CARROLL
THE DEDICATED TRAVELLER
Anfruca – RUSSELL HOBAN
The Owl and the Pussy-cat – EDWARD LEAR
The Island of Llince – N. M. BODECKER
On the Ning Nang Nong – SPIKE MILLIGAN
The Jumblies – EDWARD LEAR
How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent or, Vice Versa – W. C. SELLAR AND R. J. YEATMAN
The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-tongs – EDWARD LEAR
The Road to Zoagli – MAX BEERBOHM
O’er Seas that Have no Beaches – MERVYN PEAKE
THE BONGALOO AND THE SCRUNCH
A Quadrupedremian Song – THOMAS HOOD
The Wendigo – OGDEN NASH
The Utter Zoo Alphabet – EDWARD GOREY
The Blunderblat – COLIN WEST
The Bongaloo – SPIKE MILLIGAN
‘There is No Knowing What We Shall See!’… – ROALD DAHL
The Underwater Wibbles – JACK PRELUTSKY
The Worst – SHEL SILVERSTEIN
AN AREA OF UNCERTAINTY
A Chronicle – ANONYMOUS
There’s a Rather Odd Couple in Herts – EDWARD GOREY
Indirections – JOHN YEOMAN
The Mad Gardener’s Song – LEWIS CARROLL
Gazebos – ROGER MCGOUGH
The Amphisbaena or, The Limits of Human Knowledge – A. E. HOUSMAN
Wobble-dee-woo – COLIN WEST
From Number Nine, Penwiper Mews – EDWARD GOREY
The Ahkond of Swat – EDWARD LEAR
FLAMINGOES RULE OLÉ !
As I Went Over the Water – ANONYMOUS
There was an Old Man with a Beard – EDWARD LEAR
There was an Old Man of Dumbree – EDWARD LEAR
Pooem – JOHN UPDIKE
The Duck – LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
Goosey, Goosey, Gander – ANONYMOUS
Little Birds – LEWIS CARROLL
Ever See – ROGER MCGOUGH
SPEAK ROUGHLY TO YOUR LITTLE BOY
The Duchess’s Lullaby – LEWIS CARROLL
Franklin Hyde – HILAIRE B ELLOC
The Happy Family – JOHN CIARDI
Politeness – HARRY GRAHAM
The Willow-tree – WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Purple William or, The Liar’s Doom – A. E. HOUSMAN
Inconsiderate Hannah – HARRY GRAHAM
DEPARTMENT OF FACTS AND QUERIES
An Unexpected Fact – EDWARD CANNON
Scientific Proof – J. W. FOLEY
The Flies Crawled up the Window – ELLIS AND FURBER
The Lazy Roof – GELETT BURGESS
Strange Meeting – JOHN YEOMAN
Capacity – JOHN UPDIKE
Father William – LEWIS CARROLL
The Sea Serpant – WALLACE IRWIN
There was an Old Man in a Trunk – OGDEN NASH
The White Knight’s Ballad – LEWIS CARROLL
Planting a Mailbox – JOHN UPDIKE
I WISH I WERE A JELLY FISH
Triolet – G. K. CHESTERTON
Poems of Mystery and Imagination (No. 1) – ROGER MCGOUGH
The Sword-fish – LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
The Cod – LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
Afternoon of a Prawn – KIT WRIGHT
It Makes a Change – MERVYN PEAKE
STICKY ENDS
The Babe – EDWARD GOREY
Little Willie’s Dead – ANONYMOUS
The Lion – OGDEN NASH
Waste – HARRY GRAHAM
Idyll – J. B. MORTON
Sally Simpkin’s Lament – THOMAS HOOD
On the Accidental Death of an Officer of the Salvation Army – A. E. HOUSMAN
Kitty – COLIN WEST
DISTRACTING CREATURES
Said the Monkey to the Donkey – ANONYMOUS
A Cat Came Dancing out of a Barn – ANONYMOUS
The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog – ANONYMOUS
Nine Mice – JACK PRELUTSKY
Vladimir’s Song from ‘Waiting for Godot’ – SAMUEL BECKETT
Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog Revisited – JOHN YEOMAN
The Story of the Man that Went Out Shooting – DRH EINRICH HOFFMAN
Fur and Feathers – A. B. ‘ BANJO ’ PATERSON
The Monkey’s Glue – GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH
The Monkey’s Wedding – ANONYMOUS
A GAMUT OF ACHIEVEMENTS
Simple Simon – ANONYMOUS
Science for the Young – WALLACE IRWIN
Hooray for Captain Spaulding – BERT KALMAR AND HARRY RUBY
The Adventures of Isabel – OGDEN NASH
Knots – JOHN YEOMAN
Bones – WALTER DE LA MARE
The Reluctant Hero – MARGARET MAHY
INDEX OF POETS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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