Nonsense and Commonsense: Children's Book of Victorian Verse - Hardcover

A Child's Book of Victorian Verse

The old-fashioned pleasure of read-aloud verse returns in this collection of over 100 poems gathered from the golden age of children's poetry.

Here are Robert Louis Stevenson's classic celebrations of childhood, the doggerel of Edward Lear, the delightful lessons of Mary Mapes Dodge, the mirthful nonsense of Lewis Carroll and Emily Dickinson's rhymes about nature. There are poems to entertain, to gently instruct; poems on manners and on the virtues of home, family, country; lyrical poems on the changing seasons, and silly poems about nothing at all.

Exuberantly illustrated with full-color artwork from children's books, die cuts, and other rare images of Victoriana, NONSENSE & COMMON SENSE is a whimsical book to be shared by adults and children.