The poems either parody well known fairy tales (Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Emperor's New Clothes, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin) nursery rhymes (As I was going to St Ives, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) or are little stories thought up by Dahl himself.
Charles Ives | St Ives | Burl Ives | St Ives, Cornwall | Tate St Ives | Grayston Ives | David Ives | St Ives, New South Wales | Robert Hale Ives Goddard | R. H. Ives Gammell | Ives | George Frederick Ives | George Cecil Ives | Eric Ives | Currier and Ives | Charles Ives House | Bryce Ives | As I was going to St Ives | William Bullock Ives | Thomas P. Ives House | ''Liberty Enlightening the World'': the famous New York landmark, illustrated in an 1885 print by Currier and Ives | Levi Silliman Ives | Ives Goddard | Irving Ives | Henry Ives Cobb, Jr. | Dr. John Ives House | Christmas Day in the Morning (Burl Ives album) | Butler Ives |