Customer Reviews
Magic! - By: Humpty Dumpty, 16 May 2008 
Just a reallly, reallly nice book, full of silliness & madcap humour. Spike was tuned in to children's wavelength like no one else. How he did this while suffering from depression & madness no one knows. How tragic that he suffered himself while giving such joy to so many people.
The child isn't born who wouldn't love these verses!
Brilliant - By: boiongbooing, 21 Mar 2007 There can never be enough reviews stating how great this book is.
This is because this book is great, past great, past even that.
thsi si a book that will cheer you when nothing else can it is read to you whenever it is the same room as you because someone will always pick it up, laugh out loud ( or lol as the text generation write!) & say to you " Listen to this one" in between chuckles.
Even if you don't want to like it you can't help but love it. The best book you will ever buy.
A life changing experience - By: 3 Mugs, 22 Sep 2006 I am 38 years old at the time of writing, & I can still recite about a dozen of these poems from memory. My copy went to my sister, & between us we broke it. But both of us still recite poems to each other. Now I have a little boy, I have the perfect excuse to buy a new copy (although in truth, I have looked in bookshops with no success way before he was even thought of). So here it is, handily reprinted, so that my young 'un can learn the joys of the ning nang nong, the bongaloo, the emperor of China & ooey-gooey the worm. Silly can be genius too. Treat yourself to some silliness & stay smiling forever.
Cumpulsory Reading - By: , 02 Mar 2005 **********
WARNING: This book may seriously affect you for the rest of your life.
Today I saw a little worm,
Wiggling on his belly,
Perhaps he'd like to come inside,
And see whats on the telly.
This book is the reason I smiled in my school photo, aged 6.
It belonged to my Mum when she was younger & now it's fallling apart.
It's still fantastic to return to as an adult. Spike Milligan knocks spots of Dr Seuss & Edward Lear,
to calll this a book of "nonsense poems" would be an insult, they make perfect sense & are surreallly beautiful, as are Milligan's illustrations/diagrams.
These poems put some very, very funny pictures in my head when I was smalll & I haven't recovered.
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Out of it - By: A. Morrell, 18 Feb 2005 I first came across this book as a 5 year old, it was read to us in the classroom by a relief teacher & I have loved it ever since (a life changing experiance). I can still remmember alll of String & Worm from 30 years ago, so I have had to buy it for my Daughter (7 months old) but until she is old enough to appreciate it I'll keep it safe for her. Ideal for any child big or smalll.
