Ounce Dice Trice

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By Alastair Reid
Publisher New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The - (NYR Children's Collection)
Ounce Dice Trice
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What can words be, or rather, what cant they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahns glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Triceis a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.

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1136 words1,136 words
64 pages64 pages
Lexile NPLexile NP
Published 2009Published 2009
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Book ISBN:

9781590173206

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