plays on words

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plays on words

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.

Cat tale

2012
Three adventurous and inquisitive cats named Lillian, Tilly, and William J. set out to spend the afternoon snacking and reading, but wind up chasing words, including homophones and homonyms, on a silly tongue twister of an adventure.

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.

What in the word?

wordplay, word lore, and answers to your peskiest questions about language
2005
Presents a humorous look at the English language, including information on word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation.

Wordplay

ambigrams and reflections on the art of ambigrams
1992

School!

adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School
2010
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.

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