plays on words

William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.

A collection of ideas and resources designed to help writing teachers bring out their students' natural ability to play with words, with discussions of commonly-used language play and craft lessons for the classroom.

Rhyming wordplay celebrates Halloween and assures little ones that they are loved.

A book of lunchtime wordplay that reveals some unexpected rhymes.

Hannah, a girl who only speaks in palindromes, helps a group of children find a missing cat, and when they also become lost Hannah saves the day with a forward-and-backward thinking solution.

Illustrations and text takes the reader on a journey of words that rhyme (or do not) with parfait.

William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.

"Otto is having a very palindramatic day. His pet, Pip, has gone missing, and his search for the dog leads him deeper and deeper into a strange and perplexing world--full of talking owls, stacks of cats, storms and mazes, boats and trains and automobiles...oh my! Everything seems to be the same backward and forward, and Pip isn't sure he'll ever find his way home to Mom and Pop. But you, reader, will enjoy his Oz-like journey thoroughly"--From the publisher's web site.

A joke book full of hundreds of laughs from the dynamic duo behind the treehouse chapter book series.

Presents an illustrated collection of puns, jokes and weird questions in which to get the reader thinking about language, idioms, and the world we live in.