Ounce Dice Trice by Reid, Alastair

Ounce Dice Trice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590173206)

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Ounce Dice Trice by Reid, Alastair

Ounce Dice Trice

$15.95
Ounce Dice Trice by Reid, Alastair

Ounce Dice Trice

$15.95
Format: Hardcover
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What can words be, or rather, what can't they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn's glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.

Author: Alastair Reid
ISBN-10: 1590173201
ISBN-13: 9781590173206
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2009
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 10.28h x 7.60w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2010 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Alastair Reid
By Alastair Reid
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Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He had been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.

Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was a painter, muralist, print-maker, and illustrator. He was best known for his socially and politically informed artwork, including a famous series of paintings depicting the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. His 1956 Charles Eliot Norton lectures were collected and published as The Shape of Content, and he illustrated numerous books of poetry. Ounce Dice Trice is the only book he illustrated that was written specifically for children.

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