Sonsense Nongs (Book + CD)

Michael Rosen is a funny one/ He's got a nose like a pickled onion/ He's got a face like a squashed tomato/ And feet like fried fish.

This collection of Michael Rosen's daft ditties and silly songs is designed to improve literacy and singing skills'

• Part 1 For silly little ones: throw it out the window; one man went to mow; three craws sat upon a wa'; little rabbit Foo Foo; the german measles; five little monkeys. Part 2 Made of plastic: do your ears hang low?; are you pink and green?; Joe's got a head like a ping-pong ball; something's drastic; the bathtub song; tall straw hat; nobody nose; frog song. Part 3 Whoppers: the biggest aspidistra in the world; in Frisco Bay there lives a whale; the other day I met a bear; the court of King Caractacus. Part 4 Mumbololo jumbololo: my old banjo; apples and bananas; tiffy taffy toffee; no L; ging gang goolie; back slang; jibber jabber; back chat; I'm a little wrong note. Part 5 Barmy beasts: Nel and Ned; bugs go wild, simply wild, over me; the flies crawl up the window; Susanna's a funniful cow; high hopes; a G-nu. Part 6 Round the bend: hobble gobble wobble; busy day; a trip to Morrow; a poor old man was crossing the road; wizz kings; star trekkin'. Part 7 Horrors: down in the valley where nobody goes; shark song; purple people eater; the thing; Frankenstein. Part 8 Scoff: peanut butter; found a peanut; mamma, will you buy me a banana?; the lollipop song; jelly belly; tattie soup; I had a sausage; Gunerania's wedding cake; I can't do my bally bottom button up; TV dinners. Part 9 Family album: over the garden wall; when I was a wee wee tot; Sylvest; down came the rain; Lord Jim; checkmate; 'itched up; stitched up; washed up; socked; undressed; hi! my name's Joe; oh ye canny shove yer granny aff a bus; flash bang wallop. Part 10 Hasten, hasten, fetch a basin: 'neath the crust of the old apple pie; quick quick; school dinners; black socks; everybody's doing it; nobody loves me. Part 11 What a way to go: dunderbeck; I love to do my homework; my old man's a dustman; Ellery my son; Plainsy R.I.P.; the worms crawl in the worms crawl out.