Edward Lear Books

I really enjoyed reading these poems. Lear is the master of his domain and his silly poems are always funny.
This is an anthology of poems, of different lengths. Lear's style can make even the most serious adult burst with laughter. I was stifling my laughs in the library. I think you're never too old for funny poems such as these, and reading books like this can be cathartic during stressful times.
Read these poems to everyone you know.

A lovely illustrated edition with a unique vintage style artwork throughout, a favourite in my household.

While nonsense verse is generally aimed at children, no one should ever outgrow it. There is playfulness to such verse, it lightens the heart and mellows your soul. This collection is aimed at children and consists largely of limericks. They are delightful and each is accompanied by an illustration. The images are in color, well-done and very attractive to young eyes. While there is an occasional word that young children will find difficult, for the most part they will have no trouble understanding the words and the meaning of the verse.
I read hundreds of books to my daughter when she was young. While she is now too old to enjoy having things like this read to her, there is no question that she would have loved it if I had read this book to her when she was younger.

Maude Gonne is the beauty that inspired the verse of Yeats. She lead a fascinating life, and lived through some fascinating times. In this book, written late in her life, she tells of all her adventures, her struggles, and her times. A woman who would be contemporary today, never mind 70 years ago!

An amazing woman and book: the beginning of the us taking responsibility for pollution thanks to this book.

While Rachel's theories were ahead of her time 40 years ago, many now believe DDT is not the toxin/poison that her book helped label the chemical as. One thing is for SURE: malaria kills millions, including children, in Africa each and every year. DDT could prevent those deaths at a very affordable cost. Malaria in Africa -- one of those unseen ripples in the pond....

Perhaps her cause was just in writing this book, but her short-sighted ignorance of the repercussions was inexcusable. Because of the ban on DDT which largely resulted from Silent Spring, the WHO has estimated that around 20 MILLION children have died of malaria.

DDT was, & still is, one of the very best insecticides to control mosquitoes, the sole transporter of this deadly disease. Best of all, DDT is very NON-toxic to humans.

The need for DDT is so urgent that even the Sierra Club is justifying it's use inside houses in malaria stricken locations of Africa, South America, & Asia.

Way to go Rachel. Save the Birds, Kill the Children...Wake Up People!!

I thought that "Silent Spring" would be an interesting book to read. After all, is supposedly launched the modern environmental movement. However, after reading about 80 pages into the book I started to feel like I was reading the same thing over and over again: pesticides and herbicides are bad and should not be applied to the side of the road. OK, I get the point. I then flipped to page 250 or so, and do you know what I saw? More discussion of how pesticides and herbicides are bad!

Maybe back at that time it was not a self-evident truth that it is a bad thing to go around spraying shit all over the side of the road. But even then, you would think that a disucssion of this matter could be confined to 100 pages or less. A final issue is that the book does not seem to possess a modern understanding of certain subjects (since when do hydrologists refer to groundwater as "underground rivers"?). Although this is not the fault of the book, I do not know why anyone other than a science historian would want to spend much time on it.

Oh Yeah, this book also killed millions of people. The banning of DDT probably led to millions of deaths from malaria. Even today, about 2 million people die from it every year.

Joni Mitchell perhaps most aptly summarizes the driving idea of Silent Spring in her song "Big Yellow Taxi": "Hey farmer farmer / Put away that DDT now / Give me spots on my apples / But leave me the birds and the bees. Please!" While both the book and the song are a bit outdated in the United States as DDT was banned in 1972, it's still an interesting analysis of insecticides/herbicides, societies relationship with science, and the effects a capitalistic driven culture has on the environment. Likewise, the interaction of the natural web and human's impact on it is greatly emphasized. Something I've always found interesting about Carson and her book was the publics (often misogynistic) reaction to her as being "hysterical" and my favorite quote from a board member of the Federal Pest Control Review Board: "I thought she was a spinster. What's she so worried about genetics for?"

The best thing about this book was that it introduced me to Edward Lear. Everything else was so-so which here means lacked creativity and bored me. My favorite parts were the prose introduction, the explanations of the material for the poetry, and the timeline.

This book was just great. I had to keep putting it down because i was laughing so hard.

I thought that the book was alright. It had a lot of detailed pictures that gave a lot of information while you were reading it.