Boshblobberbosh

This book by J. Patrick Lewis pays homage to Edward Lear, an artist and poet himself. The images are dark and fantastical and the poems are strange and nonsensical. Some of the poems involve puns and are quite clever for that matter. A poem about Owls is one of my favorites: "There once was a man who loved vowels, so much that he hooted to owls. When they cried, "Oooooooh" he cried "Oh-O-ohh to you you half-moony meloobius fowls."" His play on words in the poem is pretty genius. Another poem is about the thing in the middle of your face, or your nose and has a picture of a big face that takes up two pages. It is similarly clever and interesting. I think this would be a fun book to read to kids, since you could play around with voices and the pictures are great. It could really get kid's imaginations going, since lot's of times children think in ways that, to adults, seems nonsensical.