Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers

by Ogden Nash

author-signed hardcover book w dustjacket

Genres: Poetry

137 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1951

About the author

Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".

Reviews

[SBC · Rating 2 out of 5]

Picked this up at a friend's house. I found some of the poems mildly amusing (e.g. The Lama, Celery) but I found the overuse of forced rhyme throughout the poems cringe rather than amusing. The one poem I thought very interesting was not intended to be amusing - "You and me and P.B. Shelley".

[Johni · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good book for good laughs and some really good logic. there is also some relatively things that happen in daily life!

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's delightful to find a book that you enjoyed as a child. Great for the school library if donated.

[Alicia]

Date Published: June 1, 1951
THEME: poems for the young with wise advice
USES: teaching poetry, humor, this was one of my favorites growing, probably use with older elementary