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Silly Verse for Kids - a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan. With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong will make you laugh from the bottom of your belly - just like Spike did. The legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002. Other children's books by Spike Milligan: Bald Twit Lion; Badjelly the Witch; Dip the Puppy; Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon; A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems; The Magical World of Milligan
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Do you know what a Onecan is? Have you met a Gofongo or the Bald Twit Lion? Can you guess what the Wiggle-Woggle said? Another collection of goonish poems and zany drawings by Spike Milligan.
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Poems, sketches, cartoons, short prose pieces and doctored photos.
Following the bestselling Small Sreams of a Scorpion comes this second collection of the poems of Spike Milligan.'Somewhere inside the Goon, a small-sized William Blake is always struggling to get out and make himself heard' - Punch'Compassionate, perceptive, outraged and tender' - Evening News'Remarkably accomplished...lyrical, touching, sad, wise and wryly funy' - Sunday Express
A collection of sixty humorous and nonsense poems.
101 hilarious, sparkling, sparkling and laughter filled verse by the best and only Spike. Illustrated by Desmond Milligan
Book by Milligan, Spike
The complete poems of Spike Milligan, consisting of three individual volumes now collected together ("Small Dreams Of A Scorpion", "Open Heart University" and "The Mirror Running") as well as a number of previously unpublished poems. All the famous funny and rude poems are there, as well as a number of darker poems written during the war.
Spike Milligan reads 62 of his comic poems and nonsense verse, including "Timothy Nerp", "Tiger", "Little Jim", "Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po", "The Twit", "This is a Stickup", "Well Bread", "Lord Lovington-Ogden-Reees", "Fleas" and "Knees".
A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and line drawings.
This unique anthology of Spike's poems and stories for children presents his classic children's books in a way they have never been seen before. The large format gives ample scope to make the most of Spike's own illustrations, lovingly coloured specially for this book. The anthology comprises Silly Verse For Kids (1959), The Bald Twit Lion (1968), A Book of Milliganimals (1968). Unspun Socks From A Chicken's Laundry (1981), Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, naughty, Nasty Dragon (1982) and Startling Verse For All The Family (1987). Spike does not regard children as small grown-ups, but as an entirely different species who live in a secret, magical world which very few adults understand. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. In 'borrowing' their language, Spike has created a range of poems and stories which are a delight to read to younger children, for older children to read themselves, or for grown-ups recapture some of the magic.
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, 'The Essential Spike Milligan'. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as wonderfully unmissable as the first. When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history - as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. His themes ranged from environmental issues to the war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest. The huge success of the Spike Milligan anthology, 'The Essential Spike Milligan', has inspired a second raid on the original brilliant source. Milligan was arguably the most one of the prolific and mould-breaking comic writers of the twentieth century and this second anthology gives another opportunity to sample his finest writing. It includes more of the best from his war memoirs and novel Puckoon, his children's stories, poetry and drawings plus a wonderful collection from his voluminous correspondence from the 1960s onwards with such varied recipients as the House of Commons, the Director-General of the BBC, Private Eye and British Telecom. A compulsive read for all Milligan fans.
Spike Milligan started writing nonsense poems and stories for his children in the 1950s. This volume incorporates some of his best-loved works, alongside his own illustrations. Condensed Animals includes poems on a range of creatures, from hyena to flea; Dip the Puppy is the story of a puppy who says meow instead of bow-wow, and A Book of Bits features labelled diagrams of different kinds of twit.