children's nonsense poetry book

The book was a thin paperback that I read in the early 90s, but it might not have been new then. It included

-Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear/fuzzy wuzzy had no hair/fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy/was he?
-I eat my peas with honey/ Ive done it all my life/ it makes the peas taste funny/but it keeps them on the knife
- And I don't remember the whole poem, but another was about a porcupine (it was the first time I;d ever come across the word)

Each verse had illustrations.

Hope someone cane help, google searches have so far proved fruitless for me, but someone might know a better collection of keywords to try :)

I suppose the porcupine could have been Belloc: "What! would you slap the Porcupine? / Unhappy child — desist!"

Good suggestion but I don't think this collection had any of the classic nonsense writers; Lear, Carroll, Belloc, etc.

I think that Wee Sing Silly Songs has the first two, but I don't remember a porcupine poem.
Dahl and Nash seem to have both done porcupine poems also.

No mine wasn't a musical book I'm afraid. the dahl poem is familiar though, I might try and find books it was anthologised (is that a verb?) in.

I think it might be Silly verse for kids by Spike Milligan. He definitely wrote the one about peas and honey.

ETA But it doesn't contain the others you quote, though he did draw the illustrations too.

I think both those are by Odgen Nash

Here's Nash's Porcupine poem:

Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

* Ogden Nash, The Porcupine

I definitely think the porcupine one is Dahl, the others I keep coming up as anonymous when I google them.

Hello! I know your post was a long time ago but I am looking for this exact same book! Did you ever find out which book it was?

Do you remember this poem also... The boy stood on the burning deck / His feet began to blister / the flames leapt up and burned his pants / so now he wears his sister's!

Could be a book of poetry compiled by Jack Prelutsky (I thought of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse, though as the name suggests, those are all anonymous). Longer shot, but definitely has illustrations and at least one of these: Red Hot Peppers by Bob Boardman (1993) (but only if it was a book of jump-rope rhymes).

I recall that the first two poems were included in "All Right, Vegemite!" a collection of Australian children's chants and verses with black and white illustrations done in a sketch-style. It also had a picture to show what kind of rhyme/chant it was eg for hand clapping, skipping etc. I can't recall if there was anything about a porcupine. There was also a parody of The Boy Stood on a Burning Deck included in it but the only verse I recall went: "The Boy Stood on a Burning Deck picking his nose like mad, he rolled them into little balls and threw them at his dad!"

Other books in the series were "Far out Brussel Sprout!" and "Unreal Banana Peel!"

I have been searching for this exact same book for ages and it's driving me crazy! It was a kids book of poems that definitely included 'Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear', 'I eat my peas with honey', and yes, potentially 'The boy stood on the burning deck' and other famous limericks/poems from Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and others. I had this book in the very late 80s/early 90s and I recall it was illustrated in a style similar to Babette Cole's...those vaguely grotesque cartoonish drawings. I cannot for the life of me find it and nothing ever comes up on google images or any online booksellers. I'm wondering if perhaps it's gone out of print, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers it!