The Hunting of the Snark Wonderland", and mentions of "candle-ends" and "toasted cheese" with his supernatural poem "Phantasmagoria". Additionally all three works include the number "42". Another of Carroll's children's novels, "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" (1893) makes a reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of "The Hunting of the Snark" include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). "The Hunting of the Snark" has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre,
On the Ning Nang Nong On the Ning Nang Nong "On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan. The poem was featured in the book named "Silly Verse For Kids" which was published in 1959. In 1998 it was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. This nonsense verse, set to music, became popular in Australia where it was performed weekly on the ABC children's programme Play School, however, it is now only shown on occasion. In December 2007 it was reported that,