plays on words

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.

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.

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

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.

A collection of anagrams, pangrams, and even a few sentence diagrams.

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

Presents a humorous look at the English language, including information on word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation.

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.