The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
by Edward Lear
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After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.Tags
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat was about to animals following in love, and they decided to take a trip in a ship on sea. During their trip they decide that they want to get married but they need a ring. So they meet a pig that had a ring on his nose and they ask for the ring. He gives them the ring and they get married and live happily ever after.
this story don't really relate to me, but is a really cute story. I would like to have this book in my classroom because it teaches children that love is every kind of color, race, shape and size.
this story don't really relate to me, but is a really cute story. I would like to have this book in my classroom because it teaches children that love is every kind of color, race, shape and size.
I have always enjoyed Lear's work, & this edition is accompanied by adorable illustrations by William Pene Du Bois.
It is the illustrations that make me love this version best.
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Edward Lear was born in Holloway, England, to Jeremiah (a stockbroker) and Ann Lear, tutored at home by his sister, and briefly attended the Royal Academy schools. Both an author and an illustrator, he earned his living as an artist from the age of 15, mainly by doing landscapes. What he is remembered for is his nonsense books, especially his show more popularization of the limerick. Along with Lewis Carroll, he is considered to be the founder of nonsense poetry. In addition to his limericks, he created longer nonsense poems. The best---and best known---is The Jumblies, in which the title characters go to sea in a sieve; it is a brilliant, profound, silly, and sad expression of the need to leave the security of the known world and experience the wonder and danger of the unknown. His other most notable work is The Owl and the Pussy Cat, a less complex poem whose title characters also go to sea. Lear produced humorous alphabets and botany books as well. His wordplay, involving puns, neologisms, portmanteau words, and anticlimax, retains its vitality today and has influenced such contemporary writers of children's nonsense verse as Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Laura Richards (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- Alternate titles
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Original publication date
- 1870; 1991
- People/Characters
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Dedication
- For Grandma and Grandpa
L. V.
For Grandma and Grandpa
L. V. - First words
- The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl and the Pussy cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
The Owl and the Pussy cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat, - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They danced by the light of the moon. - Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- A single poem. Do not combine with collections containing other works.
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