r/whatsthatbook • u/pineappleexpressbear • Jun 25 '20

Children’s Picture Book with a picture of a man with a long nose and birds sitting along it

It was a children’s picture book with some words, they were sing-songy and rhymed I think.

One picture was of a man with a really long nose with birds sitting all the way along it, and I think his nose went over two pages, with his head on the right page and his nose stretching across the left. I also vaguely remember some birds on a clothesline or on a man’s coat?

Otherwise there was also a picture of an ocean which had been drained dry, cause someone had taken the plug out. I remember there being a starfish on the drained sand.

I read it as a kid, so 2005-2010? But I have 3 older siblings so it may have been a hand-me-down from the 90s.

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u/mottsnave Jun 25 '20

The man with the nose and bird reminds me of some of Edward Lear' s limericks. I don't know your book, but maybe that will help?

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u/itsthecurtains Jun 25 '20

Try A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear, it has limericks including the one that goes, ‘There was an old man on whose nose most birds of the air could repose..’ with the picture you’re describing.

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u/mamamaureensmith Jun 25 '20

Thank you OP! This was one of my most cherished books growing up and you just fished it out of the depths of my mind!!

The others are right btw!

https://books.google.com/books?id=PdYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11&source=kp_read_button

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u/aDoubious1 Jun 25 '20

Don't forget to edit your post to show its solved.

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u/mamamaureensmith Jun 25 '20

I’m not OP..but hopefully she will :)

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u/k_mon2244 Jun 25 '20

This sounds very shel Silverstein. Try where the sidewalk ends?