Throughout his years of collecting and cataloging his vast library of classic children's picture books, Welleran Poltarnees has singled out particularly unusual images and situations. 

He has compiled the best and rarest of these discoveries in this book.

Weird and Wonderful reveals an engaging and delightful world where imagination is given free rein. 

This compilation of excerpts and illustrations from 19th and early 20th-century picture books includes artists and authors like Frank Baum, Edward Lear, Gelett Burgess, Peter Newell, John R. Neill, and Charles Doyle. 

The book is full of rarities from the vault, often paired with an accompanying verse.