plays on words

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plays on words

Cow says meow

"Read this zany picture book full of mixed-up animal sounds out loud! Fun puns and wordplay will have readers moooing, neighing, clucking, and even laughing with every page turn"--Back cover.
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One fun day with Lewis Carroll

a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
2018
Explores Lewis Carroll's love of life and his creative use of words and phrases.
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Have you seen my trumpet?

Presents a young girl looking for her trumpet, with her questions containing hidden words for animals that can be seen in the illustrations.

Orange pear apple bear

Explores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays.
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Have you seen my trumpet?

2016
Spot the hidden vocabularly words to find answers to questions within the words.

Double trouble in Walla Walla

It's an ordinary morning in Walla Walla until Lulu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are all infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say.

Take away the A

In this alphabet book, subtracting a letter from each word leads to scenarios such as a monster winning first prize for "Scariest and Hairiest!": without the A, the BEAST becomes is the BEST!.

School!

adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School
2012
Ron Faster and the students and employees of Harvey N. Trouble Elementary have a variety of adventures, including a bus getting stuck in a ditch, janitors quitting, an exploding volcano project, and more.

Poking fun in a poem

2016
"An elementary exploration of word play and attitude in poetry, introducing puns, stanzas, and limericks as well as poets such as Edward Lear. Includes a writing exercise"--Provided by publisher.

Take away the A

2014
Text and illustrations demonstrate how subtracting a single letter from a word can make an entirely different word.

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