Escoffier, Michaël
Summary: What happens when you subtract just one letter from a word? Beginning with "without the A the beast is the best" a pack of silly creatures work their way through the alphabet, subtracting each letter from a different word to alter its meaning and tell a story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCNovak, B. J.
Summary: In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Little hands can do so many wonderful things: plant ideas; lift spirits; stretch imaginations. This colorful concept book rouses children to use their hands for the good and reach for their dreams.--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OTORossner, Rose
Summary: "This unbe-leaf-able book of encouragement is the perfect gift for new beginnings or to share with someone you love and want to suc-seed"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: published by Sourcebooks Wonderland, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSBodden, Valerie
Summary: "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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 BODRothman, Scott
Summary: Humorous illustrations and simple text takes the reader on a journey of words that rhyme (or do not) with parfait.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROTSummary: "Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition is a fill-in-the-blank party game for kids and adults to play together. This is a brand new game written in consultation with child development experts and playtested with thousands of families. Kids get to engage in absurd wordplay with adults, and adults get to laugh at cards like, 'Filling my butt with spaghetti.' The game is simple. One player asks a...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Cards Against Humanity LLC 2020
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Summary: William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEHedlund, Julie
Summary: Two animal friends at a park encounter a seemingly scary creature, but not everything is as it seems, and wordplay adds to the fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEDBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Wormwords invade the school, draining the students' mental energy and causing them to repeat themselves, so the Librarian works to exterminate the pests before they zombify the students.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BREElliot, David
Summary: In this board book built on word play, each scene twists the animals' names into funny new words to share and delight in how they feel and sound. Bumblebee Grumblebee is for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with the way words are put together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ELL (BOARD)Sheehan, Michael
Contents: Student bloopers -- Nautical or nice -- Nifty neologisms -- Krazy combos -- Significantly insignificant -- Double your pleasure -- Bar none -- Future imperfect -- Names that fit like a glove -- Dum and dummer -- Pardon me, myth -- Feet of measured confusion -- Malapropisms and mondegreens -- Mach 1 -- Hue and cry -- Guardian and guideword -- Ollie, ollie, -ologist -- Irish bulls -- Word...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.028 SHEMcMullan, Kate.
Summary: Each morning, student Ron Faster hurries to Harvey N. Trouble School, where he encounters such staff members as science teacher Ms. Roxanne Pebbles, music instructor Mrs. Doremi Fasollatido, and the resigning janitor Mr. Iquit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCMRossner, Rose
Summary: Using puns and word play, adult animals say "I love you" to their young ones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDScieszka, Jon
Summary: "The classic nursery rhymes we know and love--upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds--as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism's rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright's The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many meanings of "up."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1974
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Summary: A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MCDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCDRossner, Rose
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming word play encourage toddlers to use the potty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2022
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Summary: Rhyming wordplay celebrates St. Patrick's Day and assures little ones that they are loved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROS (BOARD)Fleischman, Paul
Summary: Profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language, from a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works to people who studied word origins and variations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word FleischmanGravett, Emily.
Summary: Explores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GraCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION GravettCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRAMonsen, Avery
Summary: "Rhyming has always come easily to Chester van Chime. But one day he loses his gift and struggles to find the right words"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONBontje, Laura
Summary: Hannah, a girl who only speaks in palindromes, helps a group of children find a missing cat, and when they also become lost Hannah saves the day with a forward-and-backward thinking solution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024