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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 fi nd the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.
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For decades, New Yorker writer Alastair Reid has been collecting words, weird ones. In Ounce, Dice, Trice, the words play tricks on each other and on the reader. Gongoozler. Piddocks. Mumruffin. Reid twists them into rhymes and draws odd connections between them in this book part dictionary, part gonomony receptacle...With black-and-white sketches by painter Ben Shahn, Ounce, Dice, Trice amounts to great fun for the average gongozzler (idle person) of any age. --The Bergen County Record
This mad exporation of words is weirdly addictive and Ben Shahn's etchings make it even more appealing. --Junior
If you like nonsense words with meanings they ought to have then you'll like this book. If you get tired of counting to 10 in an ordinary way, try it ounce, dice, trice, quartz, quince, sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, and denim. The pictures are fine too. An enjoyable book. --Los Angeles Times
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This mad exporation of words is weirdly addictive and Ben Shahn's etchings make it even more appealing. --Junior
If you like nonsense words with meanings they ought to have then you'll like this book. If you get tired of counting to 10 in an ordinary way, try it ounce, dice, trice, quartz, quince, sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, and denim. The pictures are fine too. An enjoyable book. --Los Angeles Times
Alastair Reid is a poet, a prose writer, a translator, and a traveler. He has published over 40 books-poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations-and his writings have been widely translated. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He work has appeared everywhere, from the cover of Time to the walls of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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- PublisherNYRB Children's Collection
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1590173201
- ISBN 13 9781590173206
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
- IllustratorBen Shahn
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