This is a collection of the absurd ridiculous sublime and characteristically anarchic ... more
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 ...
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Advantages: Hilarious and parents won't fall asleep reading it Disadvantages: Can't think of anything....
on the first go you are a better person than me.
Other memorable poems are Sillyverse for kids, The Bald Twit Lion and Startling Verse for all the family.
It is a welcome change to read children's stories that are witty and colourful and challenging. So often lately it seems people responsible for children's entertainment take the lazy option instead. If we can't bring back SpikeMilligan then we need to find more like him ...
Advantages: A fantastically funny book from a fantastically funny man. Disadvantages: Can lead to sore sides from laughing out loud.
fact - Goodbye Soldier.
Milligan was in fact a prolific writer - as you can see by this list of his publications:
SillyVerse for Kids (1959)
A Dustbin of Milligan (1961)
Goblins
The Little Pot Boiler (1963)
Puckoon (1963)
A Book of Bits, or A Bit of a Book (1965)
A Book of Milliganimals (1968)
Badjelly the Witch (1973)
The Looney: An Irish Fantasy (1987)
The Bedside Milligan
"The War (and Peace) Memoirs"
The seven memoirs were also recorded as talking books with Spike reciting them in his own inimitable style.
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (1971)
Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert (1974)
Monty: His Part in My Victory (1976)
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985)
Goodbye Soldier (1986)
Peace Work (1992)
Small Dreams of a Scorpion
Hidden Words: Collected Poems
Open Heart ...
Advantages: A biased account of the life of this Irish comic genius and lunatic! Disadvantages: Perhaps too revealing and not to everyone's taste.
In writing this review I am keenly aware that SpikeMilligan may not appeal to everyone as an icon of British comedy. I only became interested in him through his improbable wartime memoirs, his various books of comic verse and his insane novels, Puckoon and the Looney. My curiosity was heightened by his TV appearances on talk shows in his later years, here it appeared was a true eccentric with a genuine twinkle in his eye.
Then when Humphrey Carpenter produced a biography of Milligan I just had to read it. After all, he had done such a fine job with JRR Tolkien and other English stalwarts.
Spike (Terence Alan) Milligan KBE was born in Ahmednegar, India on the 16th April 1918, the son of Irish born Leo Milligan, an officer in the British Army. Apparently Leo was quite a colourful character who often dressed up as a cowboy and did ...
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Product details
EAN
9780140303315
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Title
Silly Verse for Kids
Author
Spike Milligan
ISBN
0140303316
Manufacturer's product description
This is 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.
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