18 books like Owl and the pussy-cat
Watership Down
Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley.
A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved…
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The Hunting of the Snark
A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.
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A book of nonsense
A collection of over 200 limericks with the author's original illustrations and nonsense songs and stories.
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Making friends with Frankenstein
Presents a collection of silly, scary, and disgusting poems about monsters and other unusual creatures.
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Peacock pie, a book of rhymes
Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs."
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Jabberwocky
The illustrations set the classic nonsense poem taken from "Through the Looking Glass" in medieval times.
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The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.
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Down-adown-derry
Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Holt, New York.
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It's Halloween
Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews.
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Poetical works of Robert Bridges
Each section preceded by a bibliographical note. Second edition. Prometheus the firegiver, a mask in the Greek manner.--Demeter, a mask.--Eros and psyche.--The growth of love.--Shorter poems, --New poems, --Later poems.--Poems in classical prosody.--October, and other poems.--New verse.--Two pieces written after the war.--Index of titles and first lines.
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Don Juan
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in…
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Poems
This is a poem book. Aurelius prudentius clemens, the greatest of the Latin Christian poets, was born in the year 348 during the consulship of Salia and Philip. The place of his birth is not known with certainty. Three cities of Hither Spain are designated by him as his own: Tarragona, Saragossa, and Calahorra. Partisans of each have claimed him as a native son with convincing arguments. In the…
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Sing-song
Originally published in 1872, this book of nursery rhymes contains many poems which are now accepted classics.
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The complete poetical works
Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.
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Fairy tales
An illustrated collection of four Pushkin stories in verse.
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The man from Snowy River
In the ballads and poetry of Banjo Paterson are captured the spirit of the Australian Outback, and the essences of the bushmen and women who pioneered it. The vast distances, the droughts, the floods, the flies, the heat ... and the harsh and beautiful places of Outback Australia were brought to the city people of the late 1880's through the writings of Andrew Barton Paterson.A true folk poet, a…
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The song of Hiawatha
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married…
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The Night Before Christmas
A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.
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