In 1982 Nancy Willard won the Newbery medal for her book of nonsense rhymes, "A Visit To William Blake's Inn."

It's an ancient sheep that used to live on Old Earth, and here we are, thousands of years later, with a children's nonsense rhyme about it.

In a hotel room he is joined by two Lucys, one playing jump-rope on the bed, the other yelling nonsense rhymes.

Sukumar Ray, Upendrakishore's son and father of Satyajit, was a pioneering Bengali writer of nonsense rhyme and children's literature, an illustrator and a critic.

It included work that they would have liked to encountered sooner as well as nonsense rhymes, ballad-type poems, riddles, folk songs and rhythmical jingles.

Churchill "Churchy" LaFemme: a mud turtle by trade; he enjoys composing songs and poems, often with ridiculous and abrasive lyrics and nonsense rhymes.

But when I can't get an absurd nonsense rhyme out of my head-I broke some valuable apparatus today," Schneidler confessed, compressing his lips.

Some of the nonsense rhymes.

There was a volume of poems that read like nonsense rhymes, and what appeared to be a novel, Huzzah's place in it marked with a slip of paper.

Blegvad has made wonderfully witty and appealing paintings, based on his friend's own drawings of Mary, to illustrate Bodecker's posthumously published nonsense rhyme.