plays on words

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plays on 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!.

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.

A Learical lexicon

from the works of Edward Lear
1985
A glossary of humorous and nonsense words featuring unusual spellings, hidden meanings, transposed letters, and onomatopoeic sounds, selected from the letters and other witty writings of the English author/artist.

The best of an almanac of words at play

1999
A collection of 366 examples of wordplay from William R. Espy's two wordplay almanacs, including palindromes, puns, poems, riddles, puzzles, satires, acrostics, and anagrams.

Wrinkles

2005
Simple rhyming text and illustrations describe all the different things that can be wrinkled.

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.

The laugh stand

adventures in humor
2008
A collection of anagrams, pangrams, and even a few sentence diagrams.

Baby buggy, buggy baby

1997
Word play book with windows to open to find reversed phrases with different meanings.

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