...n |first=Spike |title=A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories & Poems |publisher=Ebury Publishing |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-85227-321-7 |url=https:/ ...by one or more of Milligan's drawings, a few of which do not relate to the poems. The collection includes "[[On the Ning Nang Nong]]".

...he UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as [[Lewis Carroll]] and [[Edward Lear]].<ref>{{cite news|url ...ed that, according to [[OFSTED]], it is among the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|title=Laureate attacks poetry

...an | first=S. | title=A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories & Poems | publisher=Ebury Publishing | year=1999 | isbn=978-1-85227-321-7 | url=htt ...has three parts; the first two, ''Animals'' and ''Milliganimals'', contain humorous poetry and illustrations by Milligan of animals, both real and imaginary.<r

...h poet [[William McGonagall]] that includes several of McGonagall's actual poems, his appearing in the title role of ''[[Macbeth]]'' and his "improvement" o ...agall dies, and you are sorry. Despite his madness, his delusions, his bad poems, you miss him. He is a radiant failure. So, in a way, is his movie, with al

...web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2418642|title=Oh, dear, dear: poems and stories for real children|first1=Ronald|last1=Frankau|first2=Lola|last2 ...nibus'' (Grayson & Grayson, 1933) and two Wartime books of morale-boosting humorous verse, both illustrated by Laurie Tayler and published in the early 1940s b

...kimo Nell. The ballad makes frequent use of body-related terminology, with humorous consequences. ...details/songsofsourdough0000serv/page/57 }}</ref> As with all traditional poems and songs, there is variation between the texts. It was geographically wide

...ect its [[w:innuendo|innuendo]]s, aside from observing that others find it humorous for no apparent reason. Innuendo is often used in [[w:sitcom|sitcom]]s and ...d|England]]. The book was copied around AD 975. In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. The Anglo-S

...ported that, according to OFSTED, it is among the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK. * ''A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems'' (1999)

...alled ''How to …'', which ran intermittently from 1943 until 1962 offering humorous advice on how (and how not) to do things.{{refn|The ''How to'' series cover ...book |author=Grenfell, Joyce |author-link=Joyce Grenfell |title= Hats Off: Poems and drawings|publisher=John Murray |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=0-7195

In this period, he also found time to contribute seven humorous, spoken word pieces for the double LP, ''[http://www.free-reed.co.uk/frrr04 *''Soft Targets From The Weekend Guardian: Poems'' Simon Rae (Bloodaxe Books, 1991)