Most Popular Books by Ogden Nash

It''s been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America''s laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four hundred of his poems and called it I Wouldn''t Have Missed It, a quote from one of his verses. Now more poems have come to light, so his daughters have once again produced The Best of Ogden Nash, the definitive Nash anthology. The poems display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971. The Best of Ogden Nash should delight old fans and introduce new readers to a unique talent.

"Mr. Nash has chosen from his five earlier collections of verse those that he wanted available for the growing public. He has added 31 poems found only in the volume of selected verse, The Face Is Familiar, Uniform with Good Intentions and I''m a Stranger Here Myself.'' Kirkus Reviews.

Rampant wit and humor abound in this new collection of Nash''s best-loved verses about animals, delightfully illustrated by award-winning illustrator Etienne Delessert. 65 black-and-white illustrations.

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The Knave Evilard nearly ruins Christmas with his mischief. Nicholas Knock, however, restores the celebration.

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.

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.

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

A poem about two boys discovering that girls are not always silly.

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

Gathers poems on a variety of subjects including love, marriage, parenthood,odern life, animals, aging, travel, work, and food.

The feisty Isabel defeats giants, witches, and other threatening creatures with ease.

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

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.

Poems in this book are drawn, with revisions, from ten previous books.

Modern art collector Whitelaw Savory unearths a long-lost statue of Venus of Anatolia and is thrilled to display her in his New York museum. But when a naïve young barber named Rodney unwittingly brings the statue to life, Venus fixes her affections on him and pursues him all over New York. Rodney''s shrewish fiancée doesn''t like this one bit, and Savory will do anything-including framing Rodney for murder-to recover his beloved statue. Rodney keeps trying to set things right, and poor Venus can''t understand why he doesn''t respond to her seductions. After a series of comic setups and mix ups involving a couple of thugs, a nagging mother, a wisecracking secretary, some ancient Anatolians and a good dose of Olympian magic, earthly order is restored and new love found.

Letters written to Ogden Nash''s future wife Frances reveal some of the sensitivity that graced his poetry

A poem describing why one should not laugh at the appearance of the hippopotamus.

A fine collection of this writer''s wittiest and most endearing poems.

Another collection of the most distinctive comic voice (in comic verse) of our time. Sometimes pithy, sometimes rambling, always observing sharply, often with kindness: Ogden Nash is unique and his following immense throughout the English and American-speaking world.

This collection of witty poems is meant for young and old alike.