Songs and verse
By: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Ted Smart
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780224070652
Subjects: Children's poetry; Children's songs; Fairy tales; Juvenile poetry; Humorous poetry
Notes: Includes index.

Originally published by Jonathan Cape, 2005.

This edition produced for The Book People Ltd., United Kingdom.

For children.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Part One. There are things to see and do. The giraffe and the pelly and me / illustrated by Chris Wormell; title: The centipede's song / illustrated by Joel Stuart; title: Another centipede song / illustrated by Chris Riddell; title: Willy Wonka's Wonka-vite / illustrated by Geefwee Boedoe; title: Part Two. Best behaviour. Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs / illustrated by Babette Cole; title: Goldilocks and the Three Bears / illustrated by Lauren Child; title: Concerning Augustus Goop / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: Concerning Mike Teavee / illustrated by Posy Simmonds; title: Concerning Violet Beauregard / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: Concerning Veruca Salt / illustrated by Posy Simmonds; title: The tortoise and the hare / illustrated by Axel Scheffler; title: The shark / illustrated by Lane Smith; title: Part Three. Unlikely creatures. The Grobes / illustrated by Chris Wormell; title: The ant-eater / illustrated by William Joyce; title: The tummy beast / illustrated by Babette Cole; title: The toad and the snail / illustrated by Chris Wormell; title: The porcupine / illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura; title: There's no knowing what we shall see / illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark; title: The nicest creatures in the world / illustrated by Alexis Deacon; title: Willy Wonka's song of defiance to the Knids / illustrated by Joann Sfar; title: Part Four. Poisonous possibilities. Down with children / illustrated by Bee Willey; title: George's marvellous medicine / illustrated by Neal Layton; title: I'm going going going / illustrated by Neal Layton; title: Goldie Pinklesweet / illustrated by Tony Ross; title: Part Five. Look who's here. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker about themselves / illustrated by Babette Cole; title: The centipedes song of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / illustrated by Babette Cole; title: The nurse's song / illustrated by Chris Riddell; title: JAck and Jill / illustrated by Russell Ayto; title: Boggis and Bunce and Bean / illustrated by Helen Oxenbury; title: Miranda Mary Piker / illustrated by Lauren Child; title: Declaration of the Grand High Witch / illustrated by Bee Willey; title: Part Six. All together now. Crocodile rhymes / illustrated by David McKee; title: Pelican songs / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: The giraffe's song / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: The monkey's song / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: The Duchess's song / illustrated by Mini Grey; title: Willy Wonka's song of the Ommpa-Loompas / illustrated by Neal Layton; title: The Ommpa-Loompa's song of welcome / illustrated by Neal Layton; title: Plussy as Plussy can be / illustrated by Neal Layton; title: Centipedes favourite song / illustrated by John Lawrence; title: Song of the hairy green caterpillar / illustrated by John Lawrence; title: Song of the roly-poly bird / illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark; title: Part Seven. And a few surprises. Gray's eulogy / illustrated by Peter Bailey; title: A ballade against umpires / illustrated by Peter Bailey; title: Poems written to schools / illustrated by David Roberts; title: Mister Unsworth / illustrated by David Roberts; title: A nobleman visiting Coutts / illustrated by Gerald Scarfe; title: Index.