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'''''Silly Verse for Kids''''' is a collection of humorous poems, [[limerick (poetry)|limerick]]s and drawings for children by [[Spike Milligan]], first published by [[Dennis Dobson|Dennis Dobson]] in 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last=Milligan |first=Spike |title=A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories & Poems |publisher=Ebury Publishing |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-85227-321-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mqv1QU6QEgC |accessdate=15 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Milligan |first=Spike |title=Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2011 |page=248 |isbn=978-0-670-92078-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UIBNTzdi6oC&pg=PT248 |accessdate=15 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gale |first=S.H. |title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese |publisher=Garland |year=1996 |page=767 |isbn=978-0-8240-5990-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cSkSB13ZQcC&pg=PA767 |accessdate=15 August 2019 }}</ref>

''Silly Verse for Kids'' was Milligan's first book. Many of the pieces had been written to entertain his children, who inspired some of the poems. Their lengths vary: some are as short as four lines, and very few extend to more than one page. Most are accompanied by one or more of Milligan's drawings, a few of which do not relate to the poems. The collection includes "[[On the Ning Nang Nong]]".

Later editions combine the original content of ''Silly Verse for Kids'' with two of Milligan's later collections: ''A Dustbin of Milligan'' and ''The Little Pot Boiler'', which had been published in 1961 and 1963 respectively.

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[[Category:English poetry collections]]
[[Category:British children's books]]
[[Category:Works by Spike Milligan]]
[[Category:1959 books]]
[[Category:1959 poems]]