Most Popular Books by Ogden Nash

A personal history of one of America''s most successful writers, whose career included publishing and screenwriting in addition to his beloved poetry.

Anthology of Ogden Nash''s verses.

In this humorous poem, Custard the cowardly dragon saves the day when a pirate threatens Belinda and her pet animals.

In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic.

Christmas verse that will "strike a responsive chord in literally millions of Santaphobes."

All the animals gather to find out just what the Scroobious Pip is.

"To present an adequate picture of the blithe, careless quality of Ogden Nash''s rib-tickling poems one would have to be another Ogden Nash -- and he is sui generis. He takes his fellow man, and woman, apart in his new collection of vivacious verse -- the first in four years -- with engaging cheerfulness and an insight into their foibles that is almost uncanny." -- New York Times, Edward Laroque Tinker, 1942.

Essays and articles, including some first printed in Saturday Evening Post, by Morley, Throckmorton, and Nash about the reopening of the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, NJ. The book ends with reprints of Morley''s exceedingly tongue-in-cheek newspaper ads to entice jaded Broadway patrons of 1928/29 to sail away to Hoboken to experience 19th century melodramas.

"A collection of verses about animals from the barnyard to the aquarium and the haunts of the lion and rhinoceros also includes verses about mythical animals." -- Amazon.com description.

"Nash belongs to none of the 20th century''s poetic movements though he borrowed from all of them. He published his first collection during the height of High Modernism and his last in the early 70s with the Language poets and Second New York School bubbling around him. ''The Private Dining Room'' pops and fizzes on the level of sound poetry, both a sendup to the form and to 1950s propriety and etiquette guides."--Ondioline website.

Unable to have pets because of their parents'' allergies, Roy and Joy, with the help of Abidan Allseed, grow a magical garden of plant-animals.