Illustrations by the author. Published in 1944. "No point, no deeper content, lies below the surface - this is not disguised truth-telling, nor satire or irony; it is the pyrotechnics of word play itself which gives us pleasure," says Peake biographer Malcolm Yorke. Peake himself said of nonsense "Madness can be lovely when it's the madness of the imagination and not the madness of pathology. Nonsense can be gentle or riotous ... non-sense is not the opposite of good sense. That would be 'Bad Sense.' It is something quite apart - and isn't the opposite of anything. Unlike Peake's disturbing but original illustrations for a 1940 book of nursery rhymes, "Rhymes Without Reason" is something children can enjoy.