Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

Edward Lear’s fantastic ‘Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets’ is a joyful collection of timeless nursery classics – if it does not have this white cover with Lear centrally seated, then it is not this edition! First published in 1871, this treasury begins with Lear’s best-known rhyme, the ever-glorious ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’. Other gems packing this classic compendium include ‘The Table and the Chair’, ‘Calico Pie’, two extended Stories, Lear’s minor pamphlet of Botanic creation sketches and the texts of four playful Alphabet poems. Ideal for children learning to read (ages 7+), this larger format paperback (6″ x 9″) also boasts larger read-along print (16pt). Foreword and brief backgrounder by Tim Wapshott.