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This best-selling series introduces young readers to different types of words through rhyming verse and illustrations of comical cartoon cats. Offering a lighthearted perspective, each title shows readers the fun and entertaining world of language.

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A small bounty of palindromes, all stoked and ready to go. Cleary gives young readers a tangy, rhymed introduction to palindromes that runs the gamut from mom and dad to wow and bob, then gathers sophistication with tenet and kayak and rotavator, then gets down and dirty with saippuakivikauppias, which is, as you know, Finnish for soapstone cutter. Gable's artwork keeps the survey moving at warp speed, full of big-nosed pointy-eared pug-toed creatures, which feel a happy match with Cleary's simple verse and the palindromes. They are not always immediately apparent, especially when they are fractured. 'No lemons no melon, ' a sign says outside the food shop. 'Was it a cat I saw?' And there is a terrific five-word, up-down-and-across, crosswordlike item with words like sator, arepo and opera. There's a couple of turkeys, too, such as 'bosses sob.' Cleary makes the good point that fashioning palindromes with a friend can be fun, like designing a secret language. Gable adds the smart idea of using a Scrabble set to move the letters around. A provocation to wordplay. --Kirkus Reviews --Journal

A small bounty of palindromes, all stoked and ready to go. Cleary gives young readers a tangy, rhymed introduction to palindromes that runs the gamut from mom and dad to wow and bob, then gathers sophistication with tenet and kayak and rotavator, then gets down and dirty with saippuakivikauppias, which is, as you know, Finnish for soapstone cutter. Gable's artwork keeps the survey moving at warp speed, full of big-nosed pointy-eared pug-toed creatures, which feel a happy match with Cleary's simple verse and the palindromes. They are not always immediately apparent, especially when they are fractured. 'No lemons no melon, ' a sign says outside the food shop. 'Was it a cat I saw?' And there is a terrific five-word, up-down-and-across, crosswordlike item with words like sator, arepo and opera. There's a couple of turkeys, too, such as 'bosses sob.' Cleary makes the good point that fashioning palindromes with a friend can be fun, like designing a secret language. Gable adds the smart idea of using a Scrabble set to move the letters around. A provocation to wordplay. --Kirkus Reviews -- Journal

A small bounty of palindromes, all stoked and ready to go. Cleary gives young readers a tangy, rhymed introduction to palindromes that runs the gamut from mom and dad to wow and bob, then gathers sophistication with tenet and kayak and rotavator, then gets down and dirty with saippuakivikauppias, which is, as you know, Finnish for soapstone cutter. Gable's artwork keeps the survey moving at warp speed, full of big-nosed pointy-eared pug-toed creatures, which feel a happy match with Cleary's simple verse and the palindromes. They are not always immediately apparent, especially when they are fractured. 'No lemons no melon, ' a sign says outside the food shop. 'Was it a cat I saw?' And there is a terrific five-word, up-down-and-across, crosswordlike item with words like sator, arepo and opera. There's a couple of turkeys, too, such as 'bosses sob.' Cleary makes the good point that fashioning palindromes with a friend can be fun, like designing a secret language. Gable adds the smart idea of using a Scrabble set to move the letters around. A provocation to wordplay. --Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

""A provocation to wordplay."" --Kirkus Reviews

Author Information

Brian P. Cleary is an American humorist, poet, and author. He is best known for his books written for grade-school children that explore grammar, math and poetry in humorous ways. In his role in the digital division of American Greetings, he's put words in the mouths of Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, William Shatner, Meghan Trainor and more. The multi-million selling author has performed poetry workshops in 500 elementary schools across the county. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Brian Gable is the illustrator of many of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical series. Mr. Gable lives in Toronto, Canada.

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