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Children’s Poet Laureate Presents: The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman reads from The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, a book whose fanciful world includes owls, pussycats, poggles with no toes, and the lands where the Jumblies live. 11:05
The Children's Poet Laureate Presents series features Mary Ann Hoberman, children's poet laureate, reading from her own work, as well as from favorite collections of classic children's poetry.

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