Our Blurb books are sold out. 

Self publishing is expensive and time consuming.

Proceedings have benefited FirstBook.

If you do like what you see here do enquire please. I will send images and plot lines in Ebook format.

I am also available for illustration work,  collaborating with children’s book authors or illustrators.

 

Oh là là !

Has it really been twenty years since my nonsense blog started for kids of all ages and animal lovers, then promptly forgotten?. My mother always said I had monkey appetite, maymun iştah!. Just as monkeys do , I pick one banana, take one bite and promptly drop it, and then pick another, then another. Proud to report: I am still an adolecent albeit in a body entering its sixth decade. Check our Snark blog as well.

Wednesday Morning Nonsense!

Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense continues to be a favorite of Babette and friends!

Monday tickles

Illustration-Collage©YankaErimtan

It is never too late to learn a witty insult.

A Rediscovered Morning Nonsense from 2011

There was a woman with a bun

As big as a cannon

When she sneezed

'houp houp shoun'

It was heard all over Ocean

She loved the man in the Moon

She rode her horse Taifun

Read him stories every afternoon

And they ate ice cream with a spoon.

illustration-poemJanuary5morningnonsense@2011Babetteandfriends

Les Trois Mousquetaires

To Flush, My Dog

BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

LOVING friend, the gift of one,

Who, her own true faith, hath run,

Through thy lower nature ;

Be my benediction said

With my hand upon thy head,

Gentle fellow-creature ! 

What is bliss?

Asked the child "what is bliss?"

Answered mom: It is

Foolish ness

Bumpy ness

Wacky ness

Zany ness

All neatly packaged in Sappy ness

Then you are in Bliss!

What is bliss©Babetteandfriends