Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

I offer some thoughts about nonsense in our times, not that I’m wise or anything, that would be the height of foolishness. A great book of wisdom in the 15th century by the philosopher Erasmus ...

While the Covid pandemic was a time of frustration for the young, who wanted to go on with their lives, it was a time of waiting for the old, writes Ruskin Bond in his latest book of nonsense poetry, ...