It was Samuel Foote who gave us ‘The Great Panjandrum’, a piece of writing whose influence arguably stretches to Carroll and Lear in the nineteenth century, and Spike Milligan in the twentieth. One is Henry Carey, who among other things coined the phrase ‘namby-pamby’ in his lambasting of the infantile verses of his contemporary, Ambrose Philips another is the playwright Samuel Foote, known as the ‘English Aristophanes’, who lost one of his legs in an accident but took it good-humouredly, and often made jokes about it. Although Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are the names that immediately spring to mind, several eighteenth-century writers should get a mention in the history of nonsense writing. It is a masterpiece of complete nonsense about a man who meets his wife.So begins this piece of ‘nonsense verse’. It’s this amazing poem called Yonghy Bongy Bo and there’s a song that goes along with it. That being said, this book is a WOW book for me not because of the Owl and Pussy-Catt and not because of the Friends on a drive, but the last poem in the book which I can only describe as a mixture of a sea chantey and folk song combination. There’s a lot of personification and this would give students practice with dealing with it in a funny way! It could also be used in a music class as one of the poems has a song that goes along with it. There’s a ton of good figurative language use and it would be a great way to introduce students to it. I would use this book in my reading class. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it could be read with any of the grades 3-6. The book is just filled with nonsense poems with each one more ridiculous than the other. There’s also The Broom, The Shovel, The Poker, and The Tongs which is a group of friends (I could be wrong here) that go for a ride in the park. The title may give it away but the poems in this book are exactly that Nonsense! There’s some wonderful poems in it that stand out to me including the love story of The Owl and The Pussy-Cat as they go to get married with a ring from a pig.
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses is a collection of verses written by Edward Lear.
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