Ounce Dice Trice

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.

Superbly quirky fun with words - and meant to be read aloud.
Many, many thanks to our children's librarian for pulling this for Z.

A gift to those who love words, the sound, shape, emotional vibe, and FUN of words. This would be a great way to kick off a session about nonsense words or descriptive language.

Ounce Dice Trice is a book for children and word-lovers. It is only fifty-seven pages long but the words are meant to be read aloud, one at a time, and they are so unpredictable and interact so well with Ben Shahn's drawings that if you belong to one of the two categories above, you will find you go back to it again and again.

You can read my full review at: http://www.sidewaysstation.com/2010/01/ounce-dice-trice.html

Poetry and word play with line drawing illustrations.
Would use as poetry mentor text.

not in CLAN