Download or read book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (Fully Illustrated) written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets' is Edward Lear's second collection of bedtime classics, published in 1871 and including his best-known rhyme, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' (which even introduced a new nonsense word to the English language). Lear's timeless treasury has nine Songs or poems - such as 'The Duck and the Kangaroo' and 'Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow' - plus two extended Stories, his Botanic creation sketches and four Alphabet poems. [This 2020 edition also includes a Foreword by Tim Wapshott and brief archive backgrounder).