Edward Lear, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81369-6
In this offbeat volume of four Lear verses, Willey (The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World) conjures a dream-realm of dark skies and vaguely unearthly animals. Asymmetrical windows of rich color imagery open on the white negative space of...
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Edward Lear, Author Victor Gollancz $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-575-04709-9
This version of Lear's popular poem is distinguished by its very Victorian but unfussy illustrations, which focus not only on the familiar lovestruck pair, but on their very model of a Grand Tour. After festively boarding a luxurious ``pea-green''...
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Edward Lear, Author, Julie Lacome, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-000-0
``A was once an apple pie, / Pidy / Widy / Tidy / Pidy / Nice insidy / Apple pie.'' So begins Lear's alphabet, a beguiling collection of verses that stretch poetry, language and meaning but wisely opt for silliness instead of outright nonsense. The...
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Edward Lear, Author, Tom Powers, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020804-2
The perambulating parlor pieces of Lear's 19th-century poem have been reupholstered into a thoroughly modern, red-striped duo. Powers, in his debut, parades the waggish (and amazingly limber) furniture across a frequently skewed, Crayola-bright...
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Edward Lear, Author, Lewis Carroll, Joint Author, Nicki Palin, Illustrator Bedrick $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-87226-366-6
Inspired accompaniment to the nonsense verses of Lear and Carroll, Palin's gorgeous, eccentric paintings present a sweeping vision of a dream world slightly askew. Drawn with a passion for detail, bewigged fish and Dickensian grotesques share the...
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Edward Lear, Author, Bohdan Butenko, Illustrator Stemmer House Publishers $14.95 (74p) ISBN 978-0-88045-126-0
Butenko, a Polish artist, disappoints with these eccentric, haphazard renderings of four poems by Lear. Butenko draws in grainy white medium on a dark, matte ground, givng the effect of chalk on a blackboard. He makes heavy use of preschoolish-fans...
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Edward Lear, Author, Philip Carlo, Illustrator, Deloss McGraw, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-50089-4
Lear's century-old wordplay thrives in this eye-catching book. An ``Old Man'' fashions ``new vestments'' from odd (but organic) material: ``His shirt was made up of no end of dead Mice,/ The warmth of whose skins was quite fluffy and nice''; his...
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Edward Lear, Author, E. Lear, Author, M. Hague, Author NorthSouth $18.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55858-467-9
Hague gives free rein to dark whimsy in this eclectic sampling of Lear's verse, which includes such favorites as the title poem as well as ""The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo,"" ""The Cummerbund"" and a host of limericks. Lear's menagerie of odd
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Edward Lear, Author, James Marshall, Illustrator, Maurice Sendak, Afterword by HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-205010-6
If there is a slightly sketchy, unfinished quality to Marshall's exuberant watercolors in this enchanting interpretation of the classic poem, it's because the gifted artist never lived to complete them. In true Marshall fashion, the artist lifts...
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Edward Lear, Author, Valorie Fisher, Illustrator , illus. by Valorie Fisher. Atheneum/Schwartz $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86380-6
Full of visual wit and sparkling good humor, Fisher's illustrations offer a fresh view of Lear's limericks. Appropriately eschewing the poet's more ribald offerings, Fisher selects verses that will appeal to a young reader's love for
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Edward Lear and Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Calef Brown. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6792-4
Pinkwater and Brown honor a fellow champion of absurdity, Edward Lear, in this frisky collection. Even before readers get to the poems, a cartoon self-portrait of Lear in the introduction (he looks a bit like a bearded balloon) hints at the revelry...
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Edward Lear, illus. by Robert Ingpen. Palazzo Editions (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-9571483-0-7
Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lear’s birth, this collection gathers several of Lear’s poems, including “The Jumblies,” “The Duck and the Kangaroo,” and “Calico Pie.” Ingpen contributes lush paintings throughout—broccoli-haired...
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Edward Lear, Author, Lorinda Bryan Cauley, Author, Lorinda B. Cauley, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $4.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-399-21253-6
Lear's narrative poem has been popular for over 100 years, with good reason. The wonderful rhythm and nonsensical wordsruncible spoon, Piggy-wig, Bongtreemake this verse a joy for both the adult reading the book and the young listener. The owl and...
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Edward Lear, Author, Jan Brett, Author, Jan Brett, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21925-2
Following her recent paeans to winter ( The Mitten ; The Wild Christmas Reindeer ), Brett irradiates her interpretation of the classic Lear nonsense verse with hues of tropical intensity. As the Owl and the Pussycat, both attired in madras plaids,...
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Edward Lear, Author, Edward Mendelson, Editor, Laura Huliska-Beith, Illustrator Sterling $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8069-3077-0
Edward Lear (1812-1888), ed. by Edward Mendelson, illus. by Laura Huliska-Beit, joins the well-conceived Poetry for Young People series. Misunderstood by his peers and plagued by loneliness and low self-esteem, the 19th-century wordsmith and ...
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Edward Lear, Author, Ian Beck, Author, Ian Beck, Illustrator , illus. by Ian Beck. Corgi $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-552-54690-4
Ian Beck fans will enjoy his interpretation of Lear's nonsense poem chronicling the journey of the Jumblies across the sea in a sieve. He alternates scenes of their chaotic sail, at the mercy of the winds that fill their pea-green veil ("ti
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Edward Lear, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-205062-5
An impressively versatile artist, Marcellino (Puss in Boots; The Steadfast Tin Soldier) here deftly adapts his style to the spirit and setting of each of three blithe Lear verses. Positioned between two refreshing, lesser-known works is the timeless
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Edward Lear, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator , illus. by Fred Marcellino. HarperTrophy $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-057571-7
"The artist deftly adapts his style to the spirit and setting of three blithe Lear verses ( 'The Owl and the Pussycat'; 'The New Vestments'; and 'The Pelican Chorus')," wrote PW
in a starred review. "A must-hav
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Edward Lear, Author, Vladimir Radunsky, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028113-7
Lear published these nonsense rhymes in 1871, yet the intervening century has not tarnished their brightness. In this exhilarating update, Lears whimsical presence makes itself felt in singsong verse and in antic images of a white-bearded gentleman...
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Edward Lear, Author, Michele LeMieux, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10788-8
Technically unassailable and intermittently riotous, Lemieux's (What's That Noise?) watercolors only occasionally enhance the verses of the well-loved 19th-century wordsmith. Illustrating about 50 of Lear's limericks, the pictures sit primly on the...
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Edward Lear, illus. by Jane Wattenberg. Greenwillow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-136683-3
Images sampled from artists like John James Audubon, Charles Darwin, and Lear himself accompany this classic poem to create an overall visual effect that is far from naturalistic. The duck and kangaroo—which Wattenberg (Never Cry Woof) photographed...
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Edward Lear, Author, Anne Wilson, Illustrator , illus. by Anne Wilson. Chronicle $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3903-7
The blissful pairing of the owl and the pussycat isn't the only marriage made in heaven here—Wilson's (The Beautiful World that God Made) punchy collage art proves an exuberant partner to Lear's classic nonsense verse. Combining...
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Edward Lear, Author, Ted Rand, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21632-9
`` They went to sea in a sieve, they did '' ; Rand's tumbling, green-faced jumblies romp through this rollicking classic, as their sieve survives storms and spins. When their feet get wet, they bail out and wrap their toes in pink paper, tied with a
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Edward Lear, Author, Louise Voce, Illustrator , illus. by Louise Voce. Candlewick $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1289-4
Lear's assemblage of whimsical creatures in this breezy poem rival those in his "The Owl and the Pussycat." Voce (Snarlyhissopus
) pictures the Quangle Wangle Quee as a furry creature whose face is obscured by a flamboyant burgundy...
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Edward Lear, Author, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Illustrator, Nancy E. Burkett, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443132-3
PW declared this ""the picture book not to be missed! It isn't Edward Lear's The Scroobious Pip, it's Nancy Ekholm Burkert's The Scroobious Pip. How beautiful all of her pictures are.'' (All ages)
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Edward Lear, Author, Erica Rutherford, Illustrator Tundra Books (NY) $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-88776-181-2
In her version of Lear's classic poem, accomplished artist Rutherford uses bold, Matisse-like blocks of color to create a sensuous, almost abstract interpretation. It's a very personal vision and a valid approach, but this may not be the version of...
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Tomie dePaola, Author, Edward Lear, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21782-1
When Uncle Satie, a debonair cat-about-town, comes to visit his niece and nephew, he regales the youngsters with tales of his escapades in Gay Paree. Satie ran with quite a crowd, it seems--numbering among his friends and acquaintances Gertrude...
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