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K-Gr 2—Rosenthal applies a generous dollop of humor and skill with wordplay to a presentation of wordles-not word images designed on an Internet site, but phonetically identical phrases with different meanings, resourcefully introduced by definition and example on the title-and surrounding pages. Gradually increasing in difficulty, each phrase pair presented in a series of black ink cartoo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Rosenthal (Wumbers, rev. 11/12) has a remarkable knack for clever, participatory wordplay, and here she offers a series of wordles, a term she's coined for phrases that are homophones, as in the book's title I Scream, Ice Cream! Coming up with meaningful and humorous phrases that also happen to sound the same isn't exactly easy. Yet Rosenthal manages to do so again and again -- with crucial assistance f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More