CALICO PIE

One of the things my mother made sure of was that my brother & I learned to read & enjoy poetry. Probably one of my all-time favorites, out of the huge volume of 1,001 Poems You Must Read (or something to that effect) was The Owl & the Pussycat by Edward Lear. You have not lived if you have not read that poem. Another favorite by him was Calico Pie. I've only just recently discovered that he not only wrote nonsensical poems for children, but illustrated them as well. Check out this link for the illustrations.
Calico Pie- http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html
The Owl & the Pussy-cat- http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/pussy.html