Nonsense & Common Sense: A Child's Book of Victorian Verse

Nonsense & Common Sense, A Child's Book of Victorian Verse by John Grossman and Priscilla Dunhill

To be read aloud before bed or during a quiet moment, this book introduces a literature of delight to the whole family. 

In the Victorian era, the best poets and literary minds created a special world for children. Today these poems, with their rollicking energy and old-fashioned values, are still brimming with charm, whimsy, and truth. Here are offerings from Amy Lowell, Edward Lear, James Whitcomb Riley, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined with treasures hidden for a century or more in scrapbooks, anthologies, and dusty copies of The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas Magazine. Poems on the virtues of home and family, the seasons, animals, patriotism - and silly poems that mean nothing at all. Charming full-color pictures of the period decorate each page, and for parents and older readers, there is marginalia on the poem or poet. 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. 30,000 copies in print. 

NOTE: This book is out-of-print and is hard to find. Get your copy before it's gone!

Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 128
• Book Size: 9" x 9"
• Book Type: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Recommended Ages: 4 and up
• ISBN 10: 1563053136
• ISBN 13: 9781563053139

Book Condition:

• This book is brand new and is in excellent condition. One of the flaps on a die-cut door on the cover has a slight crease in it. 

Why We Love It

The sections about Childhood Years, Sprites and Goblins, Rules for Growing Up, Absurdities, and the World of Nature are sure to delight every child!