Titles To Make You Smile: From Bad to Verse



The adventures & brave deeds of the ship's cat on the Spanish Maine : together with the most lamentable losse of the Alcestis & triumphant firing of the port of Chagres / truthfully narrated in verses by Richard Adams ; and in divers cunning and fantastical pictures by Alan Aldridge, with Harry Willock. -- 1st American ed. -- New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1977.
AFF3245 / PZ8.3 .A217 S5 1977 / Rare Book Collection.

The man who sang the sillies / [poems by] John Ciardi ; drawings by Edward Gorey. -- Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1961].
AHW8726 / PZ8.3 .C52 M3 / Green Library, Stacks.

The difficulty of living on other planets : poems / by Dennis Lee ; illustrations by Alan Daniel. -- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, c1987.
AHT2070 / PR9199.3 .L387 D5 1987 / Green Library, Stacks.

--submitted by Brian Kunde

Editor's Note: Allow me to include one more, submitted by Barbara Shaw. She found this title while barcoding. Her comment: "It Ain't Easy Bein' Green" either. --Tom Holt.

Tales from the Blue Stacks / Robert Bernen. -- New York : Scribner, c1978.
AET8530 / DA990 .B66 B47 1978 / Green Library, Stacks.


Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 1, Number 34, August 28, 1992. These titles reflect the compiler's notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, including the editorial opinion of the original publisher.



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