Nursery Rhymes. New to SPD. An Animal Alphabet of Questionable Rhymes, composed by Anthony Barnett who has published many books of poetry, worked as a musician, and written about music. Illustrator Natalie Cohen trained in fine art at the University of Newcastle and the Royal Academy Schools. This is a little alphabet book of intelligent and silly, humorous and instructive, questions about all sorts of animals and, h'm, sort of animals, in rhyming couplets and color paintings.