How Pleasant Know MR Lear

by Edward Lear and Myra Cohn Livingston

Book Overview

A book of four, topsy-turvy nonsense poems. Masterfully written and whimsically illustrated, this book will enchant and delight any young reader. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880451262
• ISBN13: 9780880451260
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Stemmer House Publishers
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Bravo for Butenko!

The above "editorial review" couldn't be more off the mark. Butenko's illustrations are brilliant, a classic of East European modernist design. I love the original Lear illustrations (there would be no Gorey without Lear!) but that doesn't cloud my appreciation of Butenko. In fact, this might be the best "contemporay" Lear available. And I include both Edward Gorey and James Marshall in this category. Do yourself a favor and buy this book before it slips out of print and used copies slowly dry up.

Excellent and challenging examples of nonsense verse

Nonsense verse done well has a charm unlike anything else. It is generally funny and the best contains subtle meanings that must be plucked from the froth like the best berries from a tangled briar patch. This book can be described using those terms. The illustrations are childlike, yet the verse is very adult. There is talk of going to sea in a sieve. The names of the three poems are: *) How pleasant to know Mr. Lear *) The jumblies *) The dong with a luminous nose *) The scroobius pip If you want to snicker and be forced to think a bit before you get it, this book is for you.