Now and again Book

This is an entertaining book containing myriad limericks written by Edward Lear and featuring silly people from all across Europe. The poems are fun to read and the mixed media illustrations are colorful and just as whimsical as the words.

I really appreciated that the illustrator chose to include some definitions of words that may be unfamiliar for younger readers as well as to indicate where in the world most of the cited locales can be found, especially since I did not recognize many of the places.

I learned a bit more about Mr. Lear from reading the last pages of the book. For example, I did not know that he was "the twentieth child in a family of twenty-one" and that his eldest sister raised and educated him.

Also, I realized that Mr. Lear was an accomplished artist as well as a poet. I really enjoyed reading this book.