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Check out joke books and learn more about children’s book author Michael Dahl.
Rube Goldberg’s Website – Great information about machine contests and more!
Mental Floss Article, with great list of little known Rube Goldberg facts
From the Roald Dahl website – The B.F.G.
Online copy of Rootabaga Stories at Archive.org
Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense at the Poetry Foundation
Rootabaga Stories read aloud at Librivox.com
Poetry Through the Ages – The Mischievous Limerick
Edward Lear Limericks @ NonsenseLit.org
Lydia Maria Francis Child Biography
Over the River and Through the Wood, illustrated by David Catrow
Over the River & Through the Wood: A Holiday Adventure, by Linda Ashman
I Saw Esau – The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book edited by Iona & Peter Opie illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Peter Piper’s Practical Principals of Plain and Perfect Pronounciation by John Harris, first published in London in 1813, and in the U.S. in 1836. 
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Justin Roberts new album – Lemonade
YouTube Video of “Me and My Kangaroo”
Stories 1,2,3,4 by Eugene Ionesco
Great interview with Ionesco in The Paris Review.
Wonderful interview with Etienne Delessert
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Graeme Base
Scary Stories, More Scary Stories and Scary Stories 3
by Alvin Schwartz
R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps Series – Check out Creepy Creatures for a good scary start!
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems, by Jack Prelutsky, illustrationsby Carin Berger
CD Recording by the San Diego Symphony of Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
Oxford English Dictionary blog post about portmanteau words
Through the Looking Glass, chapter six, Humpty Dumpty
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee, pictures by Frank Newf
Explore more about Dennis Lee
Explore more about Frank Newfeld
Banff National Park, Mountain WIT’s Wild Sings Album
GOat Sheep GOat, a YouTube video by Wild Sings
be sure to watch the video of nina & aurora singing Moose, Alpaca so you can learn the hand movements too!
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, by Iona and Peter Opie (editors)
The Secret History of Nursery Rhymes by Linda Alchin
Vaughn Williams Memorial Library – Roud #13191 Collection of English folk songs and dances categorized by Steve Roud using the Roud Index. The index is used to help with version comparison over time.
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight
, Masterminded by Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by Calef Brown.
About Edward Lear (1812-1888) at Poetry Foundation