Edward Lears nonsense is of the best. Read it aloud! Your kids will amaze you by how fast they can begin to recite along with you! If you remember The Owl and the Pussycat from your childhood, you owe it to yourself and your children to share it and The Jumblies with them. This is a very well presented book containing the best of Edward Lear including A Book Of Nonsense, Limericks, alphabets and his most well-known poems, The Dong With The Luminous Nose, The Quangle Wangle Quee, and The Jumblies. The reason this book is so important to comedy is that the influence on people like Spike Milligan, Beyond The Fringe, and of course Monty Pythons Flying Circus is clear. Lear was obviously the 19th century precursor to those humourists. Lear brings an educated and intelligent angle to his humour just as his successors did, and his talent as a poet and artist make this collection much more than just a collection of nonsense!